Living in a different state than you based out of?

I am currently in Iowa and have been approved to have my CDL training paid for at a school up here. It will cost me nothing, I have done my research, and it is a great school. However, after graduating I want to move back home. I have family in East Tennessee and family in Charlotte. I would like to split time when I am not OTR living with both of them. The companies I want to work for are in Charlotte, but I want my official residence to be in Tennessee.

So how would I go about making this happen? Would I need to retake a simple CDL test when I finish here an get down to TN? Would companies in Charlotte hire me if I'm living in TN? Would I need to get a NC and TN CDL on top of my Iowa CDL? If so how much would this cost and what would I have to do?

 

Thank you bro. Massive help. I'm not sure which one yet. I just noticed that Charlotte has a ton of truck company hubs there, way more than East TN. I'm not interested in being based out of anywhere else in NC. I'm from Charlotte, I have family there. Ive been looking into Knight and Schneider alot.

Another question, do you know if Charlotte is a good place to be an OTR driver? I want alot of miles like everyone else. I assume I would do alot of runs to the northeast, but is it a decent spot to be based at doing OTR?

 

Dude, you are awesome.

 

Hey Chinatown, what makes Schuster and Don Hammer so good?