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The only advice I can give you is to hunt down whoever told you to go to trucking school and give them a swift kick in the ### . There are tens of thousands of experienced drivers out of work . Layoffs are increasing , fleets are downsizing . There are over a million people unemployed in the transportation industry , up over 50% from a year ago . If the phone rings , don't answer unless you want to be gone weeks at a time for $300 a week or less take home . Read some posts and get the real scoop . Go to welcome wagon , click posts of members that joined a few months ago then read their latest posts . Not to many happy campers .

 

Welcome to the forum! Glad you wandered in!

 

hey there bill..wow Rick told ya like it is......hope you can find somethinog out there....possiably a local company like a dump truck or something..maybe even driving for the Hwy dept or the county highway barn.....or local grain elevator see what is in your area you stand a better chance of finding something......best of luck and keep in touch

 

Howdy billh

 

Hello and welcome Bill....... Glad you dropped in.......

 

Yeah , you're welcome here . Right away when you said you had a family to provide for I knew there was a problem . Now the info about your MVR makes it worse . Some that would hire you don't have the choice . It's up the the insurance company . I worked for one small company that had the insurance company tell them they had to take a driver out of the truck . Luckily for him at the time CDL drivers were allowed to go to defensive driving school to get points removed . He was back in the truck in a couple of weeks . Since 2005 that is no longer allowed . I don't know if you were aware of that when you got your CDL but once a CDL holder gets a traffic conviction it sticks . No way to get the points removed .