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New CDL-A graduate, Can’t find work ANYWHERE.

Hey there!

I graduated from Rend Lake College’s Truck Driver Training School in late February with a full class A CDL (with manual endorsement), and I can’t find work anywhere and I’m just wondering if I am doing something wrong, or if I’ve just been misled about the industry. I was told by multiple people there is a shortage of 2 million qualified truck drivers in this country, and that the FMCSA just revoked 800,000 CDLs in late 2024 due to more stringent rules about prior drug…

New CDL-A graduate, Can’t find work ANYWHERE.

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Atlantic Truck Show returns to Moncton

Thousands of industry professionals are expected to attend the Atlantic Truck Show this week as the biennial event returns to the Moncton Coliseum on May 9-10. Organized in partnership with […]

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Food Grade Tanker for a recent Graduate

I graduated in January, but have just been doing local beer delivery for a couple months.

Looking to get into Food Grade Tanker (I don’t have a hazmat.) Would prefer regional/weekends home.

I’ve debated on Prime, but their training time is astronomically long

I’m in Central KY area, kinda in between Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington

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Snackbar is chillin’….at Shaffer

After Moore got merged with E.W.Wylie, and Wylie couldn’t handle my no B.S. attitude when saying what I mean to management… hence their insistance that I said I had resigned when I hadn’t…I broke my personal rule and returned to a company I had quit years ago. A little over 7 years ago, I left the Acklie family company, Crete. Mostly because I hate micromanaging but also because of the Maxxfarce powered equipment and their ‘asset manager’ system was still being fine tuned and the…

Snackbar is chillin’….at Shaffer

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