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Sometimes you have to think OUTSIDE the BOX when it comes to hiring a employee.
Hiring a vo/tech high school student part time is a good start.
How long have you been in business?? What part of the country is the business located??
Do you have a JOB DESCRIPTION for the employee you are looking for??
My thought - - If I was in business and could expand or increase sales I WOULD.
Most of your business comes from word of mouth, maybe you can find employees by word of mouth.
Have you looked at Professional Recruiting Agencies??
Good luck, LUCKIEST

Don't know what the qualifications are for a Trailer Technician, but how about hiring/training retired truck drivers or drivers looking for a change. A truck driver friend of ours just stated he was tired of driving and would like to find something different and local.

Barbie, Back in my other life when I had a real job, I was always facing staffing problems. That company had a very unusual business and had low pay. So I was always looking to fill holes.

What I did to solve the problem was to cast a very wide net. I tried the ads in newspapers but that got expensive. I would talk to everyone that asked about my looking for people. I looked at hiring retirees part time. (two part time equals one full time minus the benefits). I talked to Goodwill, Craigslist, newspapers, vo-tech schools, anywhere I could post an ad. I even posted at coffee shops, local stores and such. Nowhere was I not going to put a notice. I even talked with local church organizations of all kinds and at all levels. Told them I had opportunities for the right people. Talk to anybody and everybody! You never know where the next diamond will be coming from.

Another thing is to put in the ad that you are expanding or growing. Everyone wants to be on a winning team. If some of your competitors people come to you for jobs, you didn't purposely steal them and they must not like working there or why would they be looking??