Job hopping repercussions in the trucking industry?

A big difference between some people are the people that can focus on the long-term goals and the people that focus on the best option right now. For the long-term focused, you have a period at the start where you are in difficulty, but deciding what the long-term goal is and working toward it, starts stacking good days in the "bank" and if your short-term decisions keep getting you closer to that goal you start living on those good days. And then eventually you choices are stacking good days into the future faster than you are using them up. An example is saving for a home or saving for a business. Live simple and stay out of trouble during the "saving time" and then launch into the "home" or the "business" that will take care of you into the future. "Home" and "business" and "bank" are your particular & wise goals and bank is the effort/money/education needed for that goal. It's not a suggestion it's still smart to go to college, or buy a home at inflated prices, or banks are your friend. I say this to avoid explaining this to people that will claim going to college for any random degree no matter how much you borrow is still a good idea. Ditto for buying a home. Whatever that goal and the path to getting there is different for many people, but whatever goal you have SOMEONE somewhere got to that goal and they didn't trust every salesman selling anything. Talk to the people that got to the similar goal, follow how they got to that goal if their situation and the economy when they did it is like your situation in our economy. Being a trailblazer is harder than following the trail the successful made in the forest. Hard work does NOT mean you will succeed. Don't stay on a difficult path just because it's difficult and you want to succeed. That's how people wind up with $150k in debt and almost a college degree in Interpretive Dance.

 

Look at indeed for your area. I did there are cdl jobs there.

 

How bad is job hopping, really?

You tell us....

Submit complete job applications to at least several respectable carriers (e.g., Marten Transport...i.e., fleets that don't hire rookie drivers)....with or without endorsements (but hazmat with tanker obviously will look better)....

....& later report back to us with your results.

-- L

 

the prospect of robots and autonomous trucks....
I used to think that was a long way off, but I've ridden several times in a Waymo car, and it's flawless. Very impressive

 

Should go to Texas. No state tax. And it's not all desert.

 

Much easier to accomplish with a 4-wheel vehicle -- vs one with 18 wheels...& 70 feet long.

-- L

 

Yeah but ...the tools are there to overcome that. It may not be ready, but I didn't think reliable driverless cars would be here soon, and here they are. They could start with box trucks.

 

Driverless 18 wheelers are already being built and used. Still has a human inside monitoring it, but that is just temporary.

 

Did you apply to any of the companies I posted?
Freymiller
Pride Transport
James H. Clark & Son
Marten Transport