Check with your local unemployment office. Most states have programs that will pay for truck driving school. Also go to a good one and not just one that gives you your license and kicks you out the door.
Check into route delivery jobs like ups, fedex, sysco, performance foods etc. The food service companys are desperate for good drivers. These are great secure companys with good benefits and you can't send these jobs overseas. Sysco for example has a pension plan, 401k match, stock purchase plan and everything.
You'll make as much or more than an otr driver and be home alot more often. You'll have to unload yourself but the exercise keeps you from becoming a fat slob like some otr guys. LOL
Also, don't get talked into buying your own rig. You'll probably end up a slave to it.