Old Experience = No Experience ?

You need to look carefully when you are working and when you are not working and find a company that needs you during those times you are working. I don't want to pry into your personal business, and I probably couldn't find you a job if I knew exactly what was going on. Would you hire someone to work on your car if you didn't know he would show up for work? When your car needs fixing, it needs fixing, not a good reason for the mechanic not be at work.

Who is your perfect employer or what is your perfect schedule or what industry works on a similar schedule of when you work and when you quit? I suspect you may need to own your own truck and then work when you are able. I just don't know how to get enough money to do that unless you show up for work everyday until you have that money.

 

Feeling sorry for yourself isn't necessary or helpful. You have lots to offer but you can't sit on the floor and wait for the world to give you what you want. You need to participate in getting a solution. Are you physically unable to work a full-time job or a full year? Is there a health issue that requires you not work for long periods? Is it not enough motivation to work or some other activity must be attended to and work is in the way? Do you only work when you don't have money, but once you work and have any money you don't want to work?

You need to be clear IN YOUR MIND what is causing you to quit. I don't think anyone is demanding to know your family life or personal details. But you need to supply what kind of schedule you can reliably work and then look for a company that works like that. I'm not sure if you are looking for help or for people to tell you it's hopeless. It's not hopeless, but you need to sort out what the cause of quitting is about. You need to figure that out yourself, and maintain your privacy about the issue, or at least supply a schedule of when you can work and how long you can work to others or to an employer. Somebody somewhere is working on a schedule you can fit into. But it feels like trying to satisfy a bored teenager when they won't contribute to the solution, but just wait until a solution is delivered to them. Talk to someone privately you can be 100% open with or supply what exactly are your time, schedule, money needs for a long-term job.

 

I understand what he’s doing.

work for a few months and take off a few months .
The way I understand it,
Just be upfront with the folks when they hire you .
And maybe a temp place would be good .
Or a seasonal gig like ice road or construction hauling up north in the summer or agriculture hauling in the summer and fall harvest .
I’m sure there are tons of farms and at businesses that would like to have help in the summer and fall and not have to worry about employing them all winter when there’s nothing to do.

 

We're not insurance companies and they're all different so we can't answer for them. Your options have been laid before you above.

 

Okay, I think there is a shred of denial here. It is you that are missing the point. Insurance runs this country, and you can speak the merits of your career to the moon, but the absolute bottom line, is your record of leaving . It may be a "hobby" to you, but these people are very serious, created committees and such, whether you like it or not, you are a statistic, and you literally have to accept it. Sounds like you may be bitter about this, and I don't blame you one bit, but today, it's THEIR game, like it or get out. I chose to get out, I suggest you do the same. Several years back, I thought of driving again, ALL the recruiters told me I had to take a refresher course. WHAT? After 3 million safe miles? I backed up more miles than they drove forward, you want ME to take a refresher course? Didn't matter. I told them to cram it with walnuts.

 

I'll have to remember that one!!

 

Welcome to 2022 trucking. I hear ya', I do, perhaps a seasonal gig, like someone mentioned. I did a gig for 8 weeks at a cranberry farm, loading, tarping and dropping trailers,all off road, NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!! I was too old for that job, we loaded 91 trailers that season, but I had a blast. I think you are better off doing something under the table, where you can still drive a truck, just not on the road, or maybe farm work. Don't laugh, I worked for a friend, he had an old Roehl truck converted to a grain hauler, and you don't even need a license to do that. it's considered a motorized grain wagon. That was a lot of fun too, so trying to make the current system to work for you in a conventional job, probably a dead end today.

 

Some companies require refresher courses. Others don't. It just depends on who you apply to. If it's a mega or mega-ish company(500 or more trucks), they'll probably require it. The smaller ones, not so much. Seen it both ways. Refresher course requirements are the nature of the beast. Regardless of how many miles we all turn, to the ones at the top, we are all the same. These companies, they're all the same. We ain't gonna change it.