Wannabe OTR Company Driver & State Residence Question

No you do not need to be a resident of the state a company operates out of. Keep in mind companies will not hire out of every state. Some will but most have a list of states they hire out of.

 

keep your residence where you are now..............

now, just go ahead and tell ANY trucking company you DO NOT want to get home...................and WANT to work 24/7/365 (366 leap year)

and you WILL.........!!!!!!!!

 

If you do decide, I would choose Nv. Especially if you go owner op one day. There are better tax benefits. A lot of big companies use this as their address. Central Ref. being one of them. You don't have any relatives to stay with back home? I also wouldn't jump right into it. You may decide you hate trucking. Give yourself a few months before making the decision. Plus you may get a particular run in which you go through a certain town all the time. It would benefit you to maybe take residence in the town you pass through the most often.

 

You're the kind of trucker that Truckers Home Base was made for.

 

Many companies will hire out of TN. Many roads go through it.

 

I know W&S require you to live within a 120 miles of a terminal.

Not sure if all companies have a rule like this but it's worth checking out.

 

Cookeville? I live on the other side of the plateau from you. Exit 317 and down the mountain.

TN is good, I-40, I-81, I-65, I-24 and I-75 are major corridors.