if you have your CDL why are you looking for work?

I got this question on pm's .....

to which I replied:

life is not what it seems, they all want a year or a few years driving DOT regulated ~ I got in a truck and passed driving with a 92 with only few laps around the test loop with a trainer as I have 100,000 hours doing this kind of work and had let my CDL drop decades ago due to exposure to risk to driver's license and could make enough in what I was doing without it .... numbers are going up at about 500 news stories an hour to the effect that what we hear is spoon-fed to us

that is near-totally true ~ schools do well pumping applicants and those who make it justify overall but individuals often report school grads are pumped through an operation because if one does not make it there are ten standing in line to take person's job

I have expertise with this ~ 2-3 in ten will go to career employee.....


comments welcome - the person is in military service and considering truck career

 

snowy ~ you know and I know that depends to some extent on individual luck and determination + is also like those who think lefties will deflate price of slick but crude is just under 99 as we speak and only very recently we were looking at 80-88 & whether it would drop ....... when I came up, I wanted to be a trucker but basically there were no schools, getting in a cab was to some extent where one lived, what one did for a job and just flat how hard you looked and whether you could last working your way up if you got on somewhere

I tried at a very few diesel repair shops & hung around a truck-stop on the east side of Dallas at big-town, which is now rather defunct compared to what it was in glory ~ then I actually drove a 45 ' dry van a little for commercial reasons and several city-delivery for temp services and a few supply houses but never really felt I could get at it without a lot of work and let the CDL drop off the license as I was doing construction and for what it paid was ahead of driving for pay for jobs I could get on at by definite and clear margin ....

today with want-to-work-but-no-job at 17.4 / 100 -{ feget it carpet warmers ==> that is really where it is at }- finding a job is only for both adroit and lucky ..... it is really strange to me that many local factories paying same 8-12 they did half a century ago but vehicles cost 25-50 thousand and take one wire loose and it is another thousand ...... then we have these SWH's telling us various things that would have gotten us a beating ......

so though I may have a firefight on my hands with this thread before it is over, fact of matter is the person who asked it could probably kick my shins but why did / would he ask that ..... it used to be - in the 70's - i get off the sofa and walk down the street and within a few days and 20-30 miles I find something even if it is a laborer ~! then I get a sack full of distributor and alternator and fix an abandoned vehicle and I am up........

today I will say it is not the same, if I go farther than that I get swamped by complaints voiced by protesters who believer what they are fork-fed by the glass-eyed monster ( screen ) ....... really funny [ odd-tragic-screwy ] when one sees the fallacies pushed by electronics as what they have to ship for news is just entertainment --- so like so many questions, why - if you have a cdl - do you have to look for work ......

try that on someone that busted out of trainer, but be sure to stand back for that first roundhouse ...... you will get some hot tomatoes asking that

 

since I am OP and just busted several days and tank of gas on one of those "to good to be true" I ask the recruiter on the thread D_Havens to provide his opinion on DrivingForceBehindYou 's post ten minutes ago as of 22:49:24 UTC Universal Time Sep. 15 vis-a-vis "1 yr + exp, clean MVR" when going to company sponsored training results in federal funding bringing to bear absence of time-limitations on collection procedures .... if I can pass with 92 in front of badged dps examiner and trainer I hired states my driving is fine other than to relax some for the test then I really want to hear what Mr. Havens might provide as observations on alternatives to the "too good to be true" approach, I have to spend ten minutes day sifting those to remove them from the text - traffic

fyi Mr. Havens when providing the asked for response I was told by a tier-1 operator of fracwater vacuum tankers in Eagle Ford Shale that I will only obtain rebuttals due the insurance companies pooling all new-hires into the same actuarial risk-pool .... this is gonna be a major work getting to one+ year so if companies are willing to post

when even russian companies along with others are sinking it to EFS and majors like Pioneer sell the whole yard at Barnett I really want to hear what you have to say

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[snowwy] ^^^^ => maybe with the copious truck traffic I see on interstates then some areas building rest areas would be in order as we are inundated with rookies in any times where an oversupply of work & trucks exist ..... since sleeping in the cab is going to drive off some new-hires then how is it all these trucks sitting around during the day that (bear with me a moment as this is hard to get into key-strokes) .... how is it that "companies can't find loads for the drivers they got" <= vis-a-vis => "let's hire more drivers so we can all make less money" { these are traditional questions & I not consciously crowding you ... it is just that that is the only way to say it }