Residential Construction Workers Finding New Opportunities with Trucking Jobs
According to Bob Nielsen, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, more than 1.4 million residential construction jobs were lost between April 2006 and October of last year. Timothy Wagner, who used to own a painting company, went from picking and choosing which jobs he wanted to not having any at all when the housing and construction market crashed. After a few years of trying to make ends meet, he decided to look at a new career path – this time as a professional driver in …