Temp contracts for drivers

I have been on the agency for over a year now with mainly one client although said client could take on 20+ drivers they don’t for the reasons already mentioned this is very dis-heartening when I started out 20 odd years ago the agency was a way for a potential employer to have a look at you and see if you were worth offering a job to. Now it seems that agency staff make up a high percentage of the workforce all year round and not just at busy periods. When I see a truck with with L plates on I think to myself you have no chance mate, if I can’t get a start after twenty years what hope have you got.