Comments By Rookie_the_Great

I have contacts in multiple cities in south/central Florida and south California who can help me find somewhat affordable accommodation

How are you applying for jobs without a stable address? Are you using the address in Nevada? That can be problematic because a company that hires in Nevada, may not hire in Florida or California. Florida is a state that many companies do not hire out of.

I get depressed and bored very quickly

How are you going to handle living in a truck by yourself not going where you want to go, but where they tell you to go?

I had the misunderstanding of I can be living anywhere as a trucker and my employer does not really care, so yes, I was using Vegas address despite of having no intention to live there. Now I am fully aware that returning back to the states asap and settling somewhere has higher priority than finding a job. I am going to use my next couple of weeks until being back in states to educate myself tho.

As an avid traveler (I have been travelling for most of my life), I very likely have no problem being in places and sleeping in a truck. But spending my one week of home time in a small town that I don't know anyone is not going to be easy for me. In fact one reason that I chose to be a trucker is desire to be in many places than being stuck in one...

Your biggest hurdle is employment span, being outside the US ain't helping in your search either lol.......Best bet....

Thanx, I am starting to understand how stuff works in trucking HR world!

You could always read Brett's book: Becoming A Truck Driver: The Raw Truth About Truck Driving

Are you familiar with our logbook rules? :

Learn The Logbook Rules (HOS) . . Old School and Brett re'vamped this recently.

Couldn't hurt to do this, too! : Apply For Truck Driving Jobs

Wish you well; you keep changing your name...confuses us old(er) folks!

~ Anne & Tom ~

Thank you Anne! I totally understand that rookies like me can be very unintentionally annoying to professional members here, by their not so great questions, lack of basic knowledge and common sense in trucking industry annnnd even changing their profile info LooooL Sorry, I just realized how perfect is this forum so changed my Avatar and Profile Name to something more memorable, so older members remember me easily in the future. I'm not going to change it ever again, promise!! :D

I took note of all these links and info you and others posted and I'm carefully reading/researching about them. I got some more from couple of other forums. Such an amazing supportive community! So far I learned that I need to get my ticket and return to the US asap. Not knowing where I am going to live/settle definitely is going to hurt my job hunting efforts and also confuse my prospect employer.

Your biggest hurdle is employment span, being outside the US ain't helping in your search either lol.......Best bet....

Thanx, I am starting to understand how stuff works in trucking HR world!

@Banks (sorry, quote to quoted reply did not work well, so I post as a plain text)

I have contacts in multiple cities in south/central Florida and south California who can help me find somewhat affordable accommodation (in comparison to the prices in Craigslist etc), for example I am talking with one who is willing to rent a room for $600 including utilities in Orlando. So I would rather to live where I like, if possible. As a single guy, I get depressed and bored very quickly if I live where I don't really belong to.

It was very complicated situation which I don't want to get into its bitter details but back then I was working with someone else's car and mostly for Amazon. I got covid multiple times and did not work voluntarily or sent back home due to having symptoms and finally lost the car due to non-payment. I was on unemployment for a few months because of being gigworker (not a regular employee). It was tough time since end of unemployment benefit till when I managed to pay for a beater and trucking school, thru stock day trading with loaned money (the riskiest most stupid thing someone can do but I was lucky this time in my life!)

Hello everyone 43 yo, single male, got my cdl with manual (just to have no restriction, not really into driving it), tanker, double/triple a couple of months ago in Vegas and immediately had to make an overseas travel. Planning to return back to the US in a month (or even earlier) and don't have an accommodation in Vegas anymore, so I have choose the right city to settle and right employer with good training simultaneously.

# My city preference is renting a room somewhere in central/south Florida or south California, preferably with decent public transportation, because I had to sell the car before travel and it may not be a quick decision to buy another one in this bad market. As a single guy renting a room, probably the difference between a cheap or somewhat expensive city should not be more than a few hundred dollars, and I may manage it, if being smart. (I've never been to the Texas, but if it is going to be absolutely good for my career, I may consider it too, but Texas is big, so it matters where in Texas!?)

# My job preference is an organized reliable company, with good trainers who are helpful and not rushing into stuff. I really want to learn to become a professional driver, proceed to much specific types of trucking in the future, and not to burn out and quit like a couple of acquaintances whom left the business due to very bad start. At least for now pay is not a critical factor for me.

The only company I applied so far was Prime which rejected me in less than 24 hours! When I asked them kindly why, they said because I don't have a work history!! This is while I applied as an inexperienced driver needing training, and in the past 3 years that they were asking for my employment history, not much was going on in my life due to pandemic, other than some driving for Uber/Amazon and then being on unemployment and then going to trucking school. I really didn't understand what they were really expecting and somewhat assumed that they rather put their training resources on someone who gets cdl thru them, so they can push them for a year of commitment (Am I right?)

The problem is, now I'm a bit scared that I move back to the US, to the wrong city, commit to the room rent and keep applying to the wrong companies, which either will reject, or I'll end up hating/quitting.

Sorry for long post but your I really need some good advice to stick with.