Killing time by sitting.

In October of 2007, I got into a rollover accident while driving with Swift Transportation.
As horrible as it sounded, I wasn't physically injured and was ready to head back out as soon as possible.
However, after 13 months of putting in work there, I was fired due to this and the result has been a blacklisting towards any hope of getting on with any other trucking companies.
The "post-accident" time and additional driving experience required after an accident varies between companies, but that still does not make trucking job searches any less difficult than it has been over the last two years.
You've got companies that require either:
a)Three years of nothing happening since the date of said accident.,
b)One-to-Three years of actual, post-accident driving before getting hired on.,
c)No hiring with these conditions until economic picture begins to get better.

With these requirements in mind, the pool of companies I'm actually able to get on with will only widen once enough time goes by.
I've been told to not mention the accident due to it not being on my DMV report, but the background checks will utilize any piece of small information they could get their hands and mar the quest even further.
That said, I've down-sized the purpose of my trucking job searches from "finding an actual job right away", to simple fact-finding missions.
The purpose of "fact-finding" when it comes to contacting trucking companies is to give me a sense of hope and information towards making a preparation list for if and when a hire date becomes a reality.

Presently, I could actually find a trucking position rather quickly if I looked in the "right spots".
However, after getting several months worth of post-accident driving experience in, I found that the companies willing to look the other way are sometimes not the best ones to cut and run to.
While it is possible to gain additional driving experience from smaller outfits, I found the rush to get on with them to be a nearly fatal, error in judgment.
While larger companies cared more for their drivers and saw to it they were well equipped for their safety and job performance, smaller companies tended to be overall ignorant of following government-mandated safety rules and would almost deliberately send employees into the proverbial oven without a Nomex suit.

That being said, I now maintain employment in a field that I was in prior to truck-driving and now scan the fine-print and daily activities of any potential company I seek to get on with.
Driving for a large, well-equipped company placed a "thirst" within me and when that got taken away, I tended to stray towards any mirage.
In this case, it was a bad move to move in too soon and it nearly made me look like a fool all over again.
This time around, the new plan will be to simply keep up the research and also wait it out a little while longer to see if any of the three criteria I mentioned above will be worth their salt.