Can’t find a job driving with a perfect record

Many places aren't actually hiring at all but they still run ads and take applications. This applies to both local and interstate. If I were you, I'd take whatever you can if it's local and wait until the economy improves for real jobs to open up.

 

Just because you move to a place doesn't mean that place is a good job market. FL & Hawaii are other examples.

 

WOW! This certainly takes the job market ,or lack of it to a new level, and a scary one at that, I might add. You clearly have an impressive record, you wouldn't believe what comes through here. Normally, I'd say wait for Chinatown to chime in, but if what you say is true, and I have no reason to think you are lying, to quote the late great Rodney Dangerfield, "Man, it's tough out there",,and if you've heard from 40 companies, Chinatowns suggestions are surely among them. It's not easy to say this, a profession I spent 35 years in, but forget about trucking, there are so many great jobs today, many that will appreciate you for who you are, and live happily ever after, and no trucks. Employers in my little town are BEGGING for workers, heck, a Walmart cashier makes $19/hour, landscape worker over $20, home construction, booming in my area, probably over $25, and all Latinos driving new pickups,,many with benefits and never cross a scale, except the bathroom scale, and they seem happy. It's more than I ever made in a truck.
All denial aside, ,,,things,,,are,,,bad. BAD bad, and I'm not sure how we're going to recover from this tailspin, and trucking will continue to sink, just because it's so economy tied, and I'm telling ya', I wouldn't want my income teetering on what the govt. decides to do. Good luck.

 

Do you talk to a real human face to face and ask about a job or just submitting stuff online? Usually human interaction works out better than click and send.

 

not picking on the op and hope he finds a job.

But I have to say … Why are drivers surprised at this?

we are on month 14 of this glut of drivers and it has been a problem in every segment of the industry.

 

What's wrong with the trash truck job?