How about employer PAID full training (Heaven forbid) for complete training and assistance in getting the CDL... to become qualified... All talk and no action as I see it... Getting a CDL when you have little money from being out of work is not a piece of cake... This total baloney public consumption - PR BS piece by EMPLOYERS is old hat... I just want to SPIT everytime I hear this clap trap... There are a zillion people out here (16 Million unemployed) who would LOVE an employer to pay for trainng - BUT NOT ... These cheapskate employers just want to complain and never recognize the truth of the matter...
Many of the big companies do train you for free. My cousin signed up with C.R.England and they sent him to South Carolina for a few weeks and then to Salt Lake City for a few more. They even paid for his CDL in Utah as well his food and a place to sleep. I think he said they have a barracks or bunkhouse type of sleeping arrangement. He had to sign a contract to work for them for a year I think.I loaned him a couple of hundred dollars while he was in school but he said he spent very little of it.
This is one of the toughest jobs out there today, especially for people who want to have a family life while they're working on the road. But I've traveled across this great land many times and I have never met a truck driver who didn't come across as a personification of the American spirit.
Having read the other two replies to your comment, it sounds like you are the one who hasn’t gone out of his way to find opportunities. Sorry you’ve had a rough time, but maybe it’s your attitude? Just a thought.