Any advice on a job search?

I would love to hear about how anyone who enjoys their current job found it. I'm thinking about leaving the company I've been with (nearly 5 years total, the past 2 to 2 1/2 years class a), but don't really know how drivers find good jobs. Almost all of the jobs I've seen advertised (on craigslist, etc) seem to be giganto-carriers offering jobs to fresh graduates with no experience. I have just over a year otr, plus 2 1/2 years straight truck local deliveries and 2ish years class a local/regional (generally local, but occasionally 1 or 2 nights out) experience. I honestly don't know where to look to get past the fresh grad meat grinders that are advertised. I'd be happy to get a hazmat, or tanker endorsement for the right job. (Not sure about double/triples. I've seen them swaying in the wind, makes me a bit nervous living near Wyoming.)
My main question is, if you enjoy your job, how did you come to find out about the opening? Where does one look for jobs for drivers with some experience (maybe not a ton, but enough accident and ticket free)?

 

I figure it can't hurt to describe my ideal truck driving job somewhere, so why not here?
I live in denver, so loads starting here would be ideal. I'd be driving a comfortable, modern truck (The ideal for me would be a Kenworth T680, but that's just because it's what I know and love). I would start Monday morning (i'm flexible, anywhere from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. is fine). I'll load up (or if I'm crazy lucky, pick up a loaded trailer). Then hit the road, bound for either Phoenix, El Paso, Austin, San Antonio, or really anywhere in the southwest. Ideally, I'd be home for Wednesday night, then take off Thursday morning for a two day trip out and back somewhere in the southwest. I'd return home sometime Friday night (at just about anytime before midnight), and have the weekend to myself to recharge, relax, and prepare for the next week. Then I'd show up Monday morning, ready to kick some ##* again. With this dream job, I'd totally be flexible to be out 4, 5, or even six days a week. I'd have no issue running the occasional Saturday. Maybe once or twice a month. For this, I'd like to be paid a minimum $50,000 a year, with benefits (medical, dental, paid vacation (at least one week a year based on my average earnings) and the occasional sick day, which given my history, would rarely, if ever, be used.)
I have a little over one year OTR experience. I've been with my current company just over 4 1/2 years (will be 5 years roughly January 15, 2016) driving a straight truck doing local deliveries for the first 2 to 2 1/2 years, and driving a Class A sleeper mostly for the remaining time. I have done local, and sometimes regional (out 1-2 nights) work, hauling dry van and flatbed freight in a sleeper. I've been throughout most of Colorado along with large parts of Wyoming. I've also run to Albuquequre and Tucson, occasionally. I'm not afraid of hard work. I will, however, stop in the face of dangerous weather. (I've seen too many trucks burn up their brakes or spin out and jack knife on I-70, or flip over along I-80 and I-25 in Wyoming in high wind to mess around with mother nature.) That being said, I have, and will, chain up when necessary and safe to complete a load. I'll work hard, so long as it's safe and legal.
So there's my dream job. I'd totally be flexible on some of it. I'll drive into the great plains, no problem. I'll go into California, if that's necessary. I'll cruise up to Oregon or Washington if that's where the work is. (Those are two states I've never been to. I"d enjoy seeing them.) I would basically reject anything east of western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Or Tennessee ( so really just no east coast/northeast).
I'm not really sure if this criteria is realistic or not. I hope it is. This is obviously an ideal, and not a realistic expectation for employment. I'd be flexible on much of this (with the exception of the east coast, especially NYC) including days out, routes run, and time working. (I would love a two day weekend, but if it were two nights and one day throughout the week, I'd seriously consider it.) I would run flatbed, but to be honest, I hate tarping in the winter, considering how dangerous it is to be climbing on slick, paper wrapped lumber in sub freezing temperatures. Ideally, I'd be running dry van or reefer (with which I have some experience). Or even tanker work (I'd have no issue getting the proper endorsements).
So there's my dream scenario. Let me know if I'm way off base, or if this is realistic. I'm not really sure where to find such a job, seeing as how most job listings I see are clogged with mega-carriers and fresh trucking driving school grads.