Can’t find a job driving with a perfect record

Covid caused everyone to flood into trucking, now we have too many trucks, trailers, drivers, and low freight rates. Now we are waiting for those to leave the industry. Also, the imports have started to shrink so that reduces trucking some. It's not permanent.

 

It's just as bad in Indiana.

18 years clean experience here with all endorsements and I'm in the same boat as you.

Interviewed two weeks ago for a union driving position and was told they had 9 other candidates interviewing for that one opening. Unfortunately didn't get the job.

 

Home - Leonard’s Express

 

It's most likely not you. They're just going through the motions to keep staff busy and get a stack back burners to call when they actually need people.

 

Another thing to consider here is that when the economy is doing poorly some unscrupulous companies will try to replace their high paid employees with guys that will work for much less with the same or better qualifications.

Kind of like when low balling brokers will post a load for half of what they usually get it moved for hoping somebody will bite and take it. They lose nothing by posting that load but have lots to gain when/if someone hauls it.

 

Suggestion: look in a market where your odds are much better -- try regional, instead.

Here -- you are most likely home weekly:

Walmart Transportation -- Lewiston, Maine

Another advantage here: it's a private fleet -- so a lot of the headaches the rest of the industry is facing -- you will totally miss.

-- L

 

Did you try Manchester Motor Freight?

CAREERS - Manchester Motor Freight

It says O/O and company drivers needed.

Primarily intermodal loads. Clean driving record required. Hazmat and TWIC are a plus.

• Up to $500 Semi-Annual Safety Bonuses!
• Up to $100 Bonus for ALL clean DOT stop!
• Detention Pay
• Hazmat and Tanker Surcharge Pay
• Fuel Surcharge Pay
• HIGHLY Competitive compensation – load based pay
• Excellent Benefits for Company Drivers
• No overnights required
• No weekends required, but work is available
• No-touch freight
• Weekly Settlements
• Consistent, year-round, steady work – as much as you can handle!

Benefits:

• 3% company contribution to 401(k) savings plan
• 100% Company paid medical insurance
• Annual bonuses available
• Strong work/life balance that includes paid holidays and personal time off
• Available dental and vision insurance plans

 

I had a little more trouble than usual too it seemed like a couple months ago. I had a big gap in my class A driving resume but honestly don’t think that made a big diff. There just wasn’t a whole hell of a lot out there that looked even remotely appealing. One other guy did get back to me with an out-and-back M-F deal after I’d taken the road job, but I’m not much a fan of local work and the stupid hours that come with it. I ain’t a 3am guy.

 

I would imagine that’s also part of it. Southern NH is basically Boston metro area. (Beantown, USA. Lol) There is more competition for everything in the northeast and New England due to its congested rat-racy nature.

 

Data brokering can be a lucrative business. The majority of job postings nowadays are fake. The economy experienced 2 quarters of consecutive negative GDP growth under the previous administration. We’re in a recession, have been for years. It’s not any where near over. Trucking has yet to experience a capitulation event, although many companies, small thru large, have closed down during the past couple of years. I would predict more to come. That means freight rates may go lower still, and diesel prices could move significantly higher on any given day. To top it off insurance costs are expected to rise further and the current tariff situation could result in months of lower freight volume.