I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to not rent while driving Over the Road.
I noticed that you are required to notify the DMV of any change in address. Other than friends or family is there any way to live without a permanent address or establish a permanent address without paying rent and utilities?
If I get home time I plan to use a cheap motel, and keep anything I don't need all the time in a storage facility.
Also I noticed you can't rent a PO Box without a permanent address in the area.
I know there are mail box services, but the Government won't take them as an address so I guess that is a dead end. I feel sorry for the homeless. It's like the Government expects everyone to own or rent a place and not live out of their car or truck.
Suggestions welcome.
Daniel
How to deal with permanent address
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by livelikenooneelse, Sep 13, 2009.
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You've come to the right person to help you out. The only requirement to get a P.O. Box is that you need a permanent address. If you currently don't have one, arrange with a family member/friend/cousin/girlfriend to use their address to receive mail. (perfectly legal) Then, assuming they allow you to, send yourself a lot of mail at their address for about 30 days or so. This process establishes "residency" with the mailman. Then apply for a P.O. Box at the Post Office. The Post Office will ask the local mailman if he delivers mail for you at that residence. Once he confirms this, you will get a P.O. Box. Now remember, sometimes there is a waiting list for box rentals. Forget about the PMB's at the retail mail centers. Those aren't allowed for official things such as driver license etc.
Or, as we use to do in the "olden days", use your companys address where you go through the terminal occasionally and get your mail there. (perfectly legal). That's assuming you can receive mail there.
Another way is to look in the travel trailer magazines in the back pages (classifieds), there are companies that do mail forwarding for the retired folks that are 'full timers' that basically have the same problem as some truckers, That being living on the road with no permanent address. You rent their address, receive your mail there, (perfectly legal) and let them know where to send it and when to send it. In that situation, you could have a PMB at a retail mail packaging store and have the forwarded mail sent there in a manila envelope.
And lastly, you could go to a local mom and pop motel in your area and ask them if you can use their address to receive mail, just as if you were renting a motel room monthly. Pay them a token fee, Mom and Pop operations work better, because they don't have various clerks working there who might mistakingly throw away YOUR mail.
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My id is from Ga and so is my vehicle registration and insurance. I got that all before started trucking. I pay GA state taxes. For almost 2 years now I have been living in the truck, sometimes in a hotel in TN and even out of the country (was there for 6 weeks and just came back)... I can get my mail at a po box in TN, that's not a problem, but would like to stop paying GA state taxes and change my documents to TN but without proof of residency such as lease agreement, utility bill... that's not possible...
Not to mention that will have to have proof of physical address in order to get another background check for the Hazmat.... 
This is all a big hassle. I thought about renting a cheap shack for 3 months just to get all this done but is it worthy the hassle?? This system p me off...
formertaxidriver Thanks this.
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