ASK QUESTIONS BEFORE CDL SCHOOL, OR ELSE.

On Average, the people reading this message on this forum are probably somewhat desperate for steady paycheck or they would not be looking into trucking. There's no shame in that. I was days or weeks from becoming homeless and that's why I got into trucking.

On this forum I see the same problem every week, on average over many years. A potential student of CDL school or new truck driver, I'll call them both newbies, posts their first question on the forum saying "I graduated CDL school weeks or months ago and cannot get hired by any company. What do I do?" The answer to that question is why did you not find which employer you would work for before you signed up for CDL school? In almost every case the person asking the "why can't I find a job" question has something serious and negative in their background. It could be a bad speeding ticket (15+ MPH is terrible), lots of less bad speeding tickets (bad habits and inability to change behavior), Driving Under Influence DUI or similar intoxicated driving legal matters, criminal convictions, no documented job history for a long time (years or often), not having a US driver license valid for AT LEAST 12 months, not being in the US continuously for years, or anything that will prevent you from working 6 days a week for a year at a time. If you have issues like this, ASK THE QUESTION BEFORE YOU SIGN UP FOR CDL SCHOOL.

Pop over to the New Drivers forum and ask the current working and retired truck drivers if your issue is going to make it hard to get a job in trucking. You are not helping yourself by relying on the CDL school to answer that question. The school gets paid when you start training even if they know no employer will ever hire you for a driving job. The CDL school is the last one to give you a straight answer about getting a job in trucking. I frequently ask, if you ask a barber do you need a haircut, what will he ALWAYS answer? The barber makes his money cutting hair. If you had a haircut yesterday or have no hair he will say "you could use a trim, here and there." The world does not exist to protect you from your own bad decisions. You must protect you from your bad decisions and those of others. ASK THE DANG QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME.

THERE IS NO TRUCK DRIVER SHORTAGE but many dishonest people will tell you there is a shortage of truck drivers because they make money from people training to be truck drivers or they want more drivers competing for the same number of driving jobs, which will keep pay low. Look before you leap into trucking. Newbies with nothing negative in their backgrounds are sometimes waiting months to get hired after CDL school. If you have a negative item in your background you may wait a lot longer or never get hired.