It's been asked a million times before but.....

Try Walmart.
Or try local jobs. Farm truck, dump truck, Garbage truck, county truck, Fire truck, food like DOT food, sysco, Gfs, Reinhardt.

 

CTL is a good outfit and the money is really good. You'll always make good money in tankers.
I'l go through my notes and see what else I can find. You need a good paycheck with your family situation.

 

Check with local LTL and food service. Thats the best way really and usually have a better bennies too

 

Not sure about your WalMart but mine is so desperate for CDL drivers, they have a sign up right in front of my actual WalMart store!!
/Orlando

 

Walmart is out until 3 years and would not be local.

Averrit has a terminal in Tampa and Orlando. They run daycabs. Walpole or MBI.

 

I would seriously suggest that until some of the stuff you’ve got going on at home settles down, to possibly delay your job search. Starting out with any company, they’re going to be looking closely at how reliable you are. Sounds like you’ll be calling out until things get better with the family, and possibly you’ll be missing work at the new job. Doesn’t sound like the family can fend for themselves. It’s not that this business is cold hearted (it is), but they have a job to do, moving freight from point A to B on time, or they’re not gonna have happy customers. And you’re not gonna have a happy employer. You’re not going to get the experience you need to become a good safe driver. This can also be true with a local job too. Don’t start a new career where you’re going to get a bad reputation right away. It’s worse than having no experience at all. I wish you the best with you family and your future.

 

Have you considerad temp agencies? Many have cdl positions and schedule could be more flexable.

 

Normally I encourage people who are able to get into this industry.

HOWEVER. I am a caregiver and have a caregiver now and then in my own family, what is left of them. Have been for years. Now I say this one time.

DO NOT go trucking anything beyond local home every night until all of your sick people listed in your first post are in either death, private home health care or institutionalized care or nursing home etc. UNTIL all of those people who I presume are your loved ones are being taken care of or RESOLVED the issues medically....

YOU cannot ever be in a position to have a clear head needed to do battle out here in Trucking what with winter coming on. Im dead serious about this.

Post pone everything until everyone listed has been resolved. Then you are free to do whatever it is you want without that chain and ball tying you to home.

There is a reason among thousands of reasons. Some people probably will toss peanuts at me but this is one of the reasons. In my state we have what is Filial Love Law (Family Court related) meaning if I had a sick mother (And I do by marriage still living) or blood kin to a parent etc in the household, you have to provide whatever care within your limitations OR arrange for professionals to come and and provide certain or medically necessary care. To leave someone a relative behind and run off is to break the law and create a situation where that person will decline very fast and not do well at all. There is no dignity in not recieving necessary care.

You have too much or rather too many people on your mind all of whom need help. THAT makes your mind not clear, not fast and not able to emotionally withstand the assault from say a angry roadrager, dispatcher or some random pair of thugs in Chicago. You are truly vurnable. And with a 40 ton 18 wheeler if you make a mistake because you have all these issues going on and cannot get away... there is a possibility due to physics or otherwise you might kill someone or a family or hurt them really bad or even yourself.

That wont serve anyone.

Stay home. Work local, even if it is washing dishes. Start working on arranging care for all those people. There are just too many. Im working on three or four at most and these are relatively routine tasks with a limited amount of hours per week for all of us. But all those people you listed, you are going to find that if you hired home care people several hours a week per person it's going to be 20 dollars a hour billable to you cash please.

That is why most everyone struggle with relatives who are sick.

The biggest thing is called Assisted Living. With a Doctors order or similar situation a sick person with whatever it is wrong can live in a controlled housing with relative peace and very powerful federal codes that govern money, food, hydration, furniture and so on. And have professional doctors, nursing usually a charge RN combined with a group of other professionals on staff to take care of that person on call.

I did not post with intent to lecture. But I strongly suggest staying home and working local until all those people are being taken care of properly or resolved one way or another without any load or stress on YOU. You cannot have this and go trucking. Forget it. Period.

At some point in life things improve. Until then batten down the batches and do battle to solve your immediate problems at home first. Stay home, work local. Don't come out here into trucking.

 

Local is not out of the question. Bunch of guus in my class at the private school I attended went local.