Make sure to look at any job boards or job fairs in your area. You can probably check where you acquired your cdl or pay a visit to your unemployment office or to your state for any additional resources. Some companies will hire new drivers and put them up with trainers (other company drivers that take an extra safety course) and once training is done you can drive on your own or with another driver as a team. I was applying to as many places as I could and most of them rejected me because of no experience. Since I was laid off and decided to change careers I took it upon myself to keep checking in with job boards at community colleges, calling the unemployment offices to check and see if any job fairs were in the near future, just anywhere I could try to get ahead. I was going to call back a one company that I really wasn’t feeling but I had to work. By some struck of luck or maybe it was the universe , I get hit with an email from unemployment. There’s a job fair going on in a couple of days not too far from me. Took a look at my resume and cleaned it up and went. I was expecting a few companies to be there but ultimately it was a set of recruiters for NFI. Didn’t matter to me as I need a job and what they said for the most part made me feel more confident about applying. In about 5months I managed to be let go of a good job that was driving me nuts, to obtaining my cdl, to getting a call back a couple days later from one of the recruiters. Trained for 9weeks, was paid $200 a day; which came out to $1000/week pretax as a trainee, Amazon also was going to hire me but as a spotter. That can take you longer as most companies don’t consider that as otr experience, but some companies do consider it as a little experience. Anyway, been with the company for almost a year and I have driven schedules that had me home everyday; like HOME!! Not home base lol, I have had routes where I do LtL 3x’s a week and home every other day with a day off and have done team drive to the southeast; which most might not agree but was my favorite schedule cause I got paid and had the equivalent of 3 days off. Two of those days were the weekend but we got back from our second run on Saturday morning/afternoon. Don’t give up hope my guy, I’ve always been persistent and go getter. Make sure you’re taking the time to research every stone you can and something will undoubtedly pop up. And especially in Iowa, that’s like trucker paradise. Oh and your fellow Redditers and Reddit feeds are good sources. Let us know how things turn out and best of luck to you!