I wouldn't re-train as a truck driver, but my partner, who makes $35,000/year moving heavy things around in a Seattle theater would. She'd step over a lot of bodies to do so.
The $50,000/year jobs that aren't being filled have one of:
1. Require years of non-transferable training.
2. Have insane working hours, that make your real pay closer to minimum wage.
3. In especially shitty working conditions.
4. Are in locations where $50,000/year isn't enough to live on.
5. Destroy your body after a few years on the job.
6. Have better-paying, better-work-condition alternatives that use similar skill-sets.
7. Or, more typically, two or more of the above.