What the hell do they actually want?

Sorry to say you are a newbie as you have no commercial experience easy as that

You don’t have curtain side experience so you will know how to strap the variety of loads that go onto a curtain sider

No offence but do you know the drivers hours how to reverse about the trailer break ■■ only saying as I did work with a guy who was ex army totally destroyed a trailer because he didn’t know about the trailer break boss got calls as sparks coming off the trailer he couldn’t reverse ( in fact nearly wrote another cab off in the yard ) didn’t know how to load a tailer as was always done for him another wrote a brand new unit off due to not applying the hand break & trailer break

Maybe some of the above have happened so some employers are reluctant to take on just saying you may however not be like that but they not willing to take the risk

I hit a lot of brick walls not long after I passed partly due to being female ( yep it does happen it shouldn’t but does ) also the area I live