Least competitive trucking job markets.

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  1. bentstrider83

    bentstrider83 Road Train Member

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    Definitely keeping my eye on either Amarillo or Lubbock for now. Focus on a rental and then start saving up money for a travel trailer to tow behind me. Relocate once the area starts feeling too stale.
     
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  3. bentstrider83

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    Pretty much. Even neighbouring states like MO or IA are better than anywhere in IL. That whole state is bad for one of my interests. NM seems to be getting that way too.
     
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    cuzzin it Road Train Member

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    Are there a lot of dairies shutdown there ?
    "I just moved back to Veguita after 13 years and bunch of them are gone.... "
    And i'm not seeing many tankers go by on 60.
     
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    Not 100% sure about that one. All I could think of is that dairies that far west were affected by the whole bird flu thing. Perhaps even changing attitudes up in Santa Fe causing many dairies that way to close and their owners to relocate to Texas and Oklahoma.
     
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    Nope , not as many as 12 years ago
     
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    bentstrider83 Road Train Member

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    Makes me wonder if that one I used to load in Willard closed down too? Last I did anything with that one was 2015. Clovis Ruan picked it up for awhile before Roswell Ruan started doing it. I'm still forever heated getting taken off of it. It was a cake run.
     
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    If you like trains, the largest train museum in the country is about 1hr 1/2 outside Chicago. Not saying move there lol but just fyi
     
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    cuzzin it Road Train Member

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    Aw heck, that makes it worthwhile :)
     
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    Zen dairy owned by the Price family
     
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    bentstrider83 Road Train Member

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    One of the dispatchers I work with has that last name. Wouldn't be too shocked if they're related.
     
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