Companies are laying off when we hit a 50 year record low for unemployment?
Indeed. Kroger is the most recent one I remember hearing about locally. Someone had a thread showing a LOT more companies than that laying people off OR forcing them into early retirement.
Given the fact we have more jobs than Americans to fill them, it's not too bad for people who are actually looking for a job. In my industry, we are still short over 60,000 drivers that we can't find.
But between the trade wars, the MSM trying to take us into a recession, we are still on track for a great economy.
US weekly jobless claims rise slightly
What kind of drivers? I have a class B but have seen literally ONE job opening the past few weeks in the newspaper. In my experience they won't even bother with an interview if you have no experience but I have yet to have it explained how I am supposed to get experience if no one will hire me.
Straight trucks are more difficult than semis. With semi's, you can get a job with no experience at a lot of places; some are even willing to train and license you provided you work for them for a year. But of course, that means going over the road.
But after that year or two, the world is yours. You can work in any part of the country and always be in demand. If you want local, UPS, Fed Ex, and many of the national companies are always looking for you provided you do have experience.
For straight trucks, you may want to focus on local delivery services and take a job as a van driver. When they need a fill in for a truck driver on vacation or otherwise out of work, you can fill in and count the time with that company as experience.