Dead Zones

I haven't seen one. Your right about FL. Yes there are areas that are slow zones. The best way to reduce the chance of sitting is to have as many endosrements as you can. Hazmat being the best,especially if your company hauls hazmat occaisonally. Also pulling a reefer helps if your company has such a divison.

 

I can vouch for northwest Florida for being a really crappy place to try and find a trucking job, especially with little or no experience. There are places that hire out of here, but for the most part you have to look hard for those jobs and keep on it. And the more experience the better. The jobs can be found, even in dead zones, but they're not necessarily handed out on a silver platter.

 

Very little dry freight coming out of Florida. Lots produce during the growing season & orange juice year round. As Scuby said, having a reefer & hazmat greatly increases chances of loading out of Florida.

 

There aren't many "bad areas", but generally, FL and New England (above Mass) are not ideal places to live or frequent in a truck. Some carriers will let you sit and wait for something, others will immediately bounce you out of the state for greener grass once your empty.

 

Florida has all kinds of freight of every type outbound, just not going to go fishing on load boards to get them.