My Tenure is Over

Not much. Still following new leads, still interviewing with old ones, and still claiming unemployment. Only real difference is that now I'm starting to include some OTR positions in my search parameters. Having some trouble distinguishing actual jobs I might have a shot at from headhunting agencies who keep trying to pair me up with megas, to the point that I'm starting to have duplicate attempts at the same companies. One even tried to pair me up with another Knight-Swift company... was fun trying to explain why that was a guaranteed bust

 

This. I keep getting more of the same result. Companies won't touch me. I probably won't have a place in this industry for a couple years...

It's not negativity; just cold hard reality. I'm ####ed

 

The fact that it was a safety termination to begin with. I've disclosed everything to every employer, and what everyone takes issue with is that I was terminated and haven't been someone else's problem between that termination and my application... or at least that was Heartland's thing when I applied there. I've widened my scope to the likes of Western Express... driving OTR... on a sliding scale that goes as low as $0.26/mi. I don't care who takes me, I just want to be working and not relying on an unemployment check that will likely never show up. ####, I'm willing to go on a mentor truck for 240 hours all over again if it means I can avoid filing bankruptcy at 22. The only problem is finding someone that's willing to take a chance on a lost cause like my sorry ###.

This is as much for you as anyone else, dude

 

That was actually my first choice: local work. Which is how I ended up in interview hell, trying to collect unemployment in the meantime that will never show up