Well the truck driving profession is still a good one to get into. Many consider truck jobs to be in high demand. Big truck driving companies like CR England and others that haul refrigerated freight haven’t stopped hiring even through the recession. But even though drivers are in high demand, numbers show there are fewer positions now than before the recession started.
The Mclatchy-Tribune News Service put out an article that discussed the slow inception of President Barack Obama’s mammoth stimulus plan. The plan that congress approved back in february that was supposed to stimulate the economy. That stimulation was supposed to create jobs as States spent more money on road construction. The Construction projects were supposed to be one of the fastest-acting pieces of the $787 billion package. Certainly more trucking jobs will be created as equipment and building materials get transported to work sites.
The article states that initially, states moved quickly to qualify for their share of the stimulus money. However since the initial frenzy, only 2000 of the 5500 approved projects have gotten off the ground and out of the 10 largest proposed projects, 6 haven’t even gotten an approval yet. Although it seems like the slow turning wheels of government have slowed the increase of CDL job , the fact that 2000 projects have begun means that a little further down the road the demand for truck driving jobs will most likely increase.