Why do many carriers have "waiting lists" for driving positions?

I was looking through Indeed and some carrier sites and like 3/4 of all jobs let you apply but have "waiting list" on the jobs... What?

 

Because the economy is in the toilet. It's the free market. There's more trucks and drivers out here available to be loaded than there is available freight to haul on those trucks. Supply and demand so carriers can be picky in who they hire. The only drivers getting hired anywhere these days have squeaky clean records.

 

I have six years with clean CSA, MVR, DAC and a interstate non-restricted with all endorsements. I'm pretty sure it'll be the same for someone with twenty years and clean records..

I guess people who are still talking about "driver shortage" never bothered to look at the actual market for the trucking industry...

 

What kind(s) of freight/jobs are you applying for?

What geographic area(s) are you looking?

-- L

 

Day cab van or reefer.. I just did a couple years with Eagle delivering fuel but want a change..

Pretty much the only thing I'm seeing is OTR without waiting lists... Even regional is pretty bad

Clean DAC, CSA, MVR
All endorsements interstate non-restricted
six years and about a decade handling freight before that at a LTL

 

I just got a new good job 3 months ago but yeah the shortage for good drivers never really ends. That's what you're up against. I'd only had 3 driving jobs on my resume in the last 24 years with a clean record. Unfortunately there's a lot of people with solid resumes looking for jobs right now, competition is tight.

 

You would think they would be going to good LTLs playing the long game towards retirement, and not back-road daily jobs and grocery fleets...

 

Day cab van or reefer....

I think that more drivers are likely pursuing that sort of freight...than others. Thus -- you probably have more competition, since that's easier freight to deal with.

My "take" is that you may well get better results.....sooner.....if you went after more specialized forms of freight (e.g., hazmat tanker).

Put those nifty endorsements to work.....

-- L

 

@HogazWild - True, but LTL's don't have the market cornered on good jobs with a solid retirement. You asked a question and don't like the answer or something? That's what it is out here. Yellow just put 15,000 drivers out of work a couple of months ago. They want a job too. My application I put in lay dormant for over 2 months before I was even contacted about that job. That's the market right now.

 

One more clue that there are too many truck drivers out here.