Tell me why I should feel sorry for long term unemployed who don't want to move?

Hard to pass a drug test mane.

You don't have to feel sorry for them, but they may have family obligations that means taking care of or looking after sick or elderly family members. They may have children who have special needs who would be disrupted if they move. They may lack the money to move. It can take a few thousands dollars to rent and pack up a U-Haul and take your family and take care of the various expenses to move.

Some people may have obligations to their church and feel a calling from the Lord to stay in their community. Some may be divorced and do not want to move away from their children and not have the frequent visits that are important.

I feel sorry for people with severe handicaps, either physical or mental, who cannot secure employment. The unemployed who are capable of work are off my compassion radar.

I don't maybe, maybe because you don't want to be a heartless a hole?

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"If you can pass a drug test and have a truck license, you can earn $100,000 a year driving an oil truck," said MacDonald.

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I am guessing that "can earn" doesn't mean that everyone who drives a rig is earning that on normal time, or at all. Also not everyone has a truck license or is cut out for driving a rig.

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"If you can pass a drug test and have a truck license, you can earn $100,000 a year driving an oil truck," said MacDonald.

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Also if they have a clean driving record. And don't have any of the numerous medical conditions that can disqualify you at the state or federal level. And if they're a Texas resident, assuming we're using Kerrville as a baseline from the story. This has to be done in advance of even applying for the CDL, so we're talking cross-country moving costs and finding a co-signer for a THA lease because I doubt the landlord is going to accept this CNNMoney story as a statement of income. (You can get your CDL out of state but will still need to establish Texas residency before transferring it.)

Then scrap a couple more thousand for the trucking school tuition. I'm assuming based on the fact that they're snatching homebuilder truckers that the companies are willing to take on some of the training (e.g., you don't need to get all the way up to a Class A+X on your own) but can't assume that calculus still applies for someone with zero experience.

Then hope that the domestic fracking boom enabling this kind of thing doesn't start coughing up a lung thanks to recent geopolitics.

Of course, when I read the article, I had a much more obvious question: If they are being poached so regularly, why doesn't MacDonald pay his truckers more? The article makes much of the housing shortages in oil boom areas, so it's not like he wouldn't be able to make up the wage increases on increased sales price/volume.

It costs 5000 dollars to move out of state, and 2000 dollars to move intrastate.

Poor folks don't have that cash laying around