Hard to find work

depends where your looking in Canada I suppose but maybe stretch the truth a little bit on your resume. Don't include you barely drive at your current job. make it sound like you do everyday.

 

What part of the country? What companies are you applying to?

 

Lots of T4 jobs.

 

Try posting on Craigslist under resumes.
Also if you have any decent experience with gravel, talk that up because the construction companies are often looking for drivers with experience hauling gravel. Not many drivers can properly handle a pup, or do nice chain spreads, also gravel truck drivers tend to be extremely good at backing up because they spend a freakish amount of time doing so compared to other driving jobs, and its an art to get the perfect jackknife of the pup, and then have the truck in the exact right spot to dump it. I find that if a driver is skilled with a gravel truck, hauling anything else seems easy to them after. Where many people with 10 or 20 years experience ,are often still terrible at hauling gravel. Not to mention that they are far more aware of their surroundings, because if they weren't they would be tearing down power lines, house roof over hangs etc regularly. My company hauls a wide variety of products, but seeing some gravel truck experience on their resume always makes a good impression with me.

 

I’m based out of Calgary, basically how it works right now, is you either have to run the US, or you have to do Super B hopper bottom. Here is the catch, if you have more than 6 months of time between your last verifiable ft trucking job and now; you are basically considered a new driver.