Texas or North Dakota - are drivers still in demand?

I'm in Texas and they are still needing drivers. Midland/Odessa area and San Angelo area. South Texas probably still does. North Dakota I don't know about.

 

Stay away from N Dakota. Place is miserable and there is no housing for all of the oilfield workers out there. Many guys are living in their campers they brought with them. The winters are miserable, too.

 

Would craigs list be a good place to get company names that might be hiring?

 

Come on! It's not that bad. I live out of a 3 bedroom apartment provided by my company. Many other carriers also provide housing to their drivers. The shady carriers up here are the ones who choose to either charge their drivers rent or provide them terrible housing options.

Look for the position you want, and ask the questions that are important to your health and happiness to work.

 

I got a job offer in ND in august which including housing food and great pay beifits to but I turned it down I am to old for that yes there hiring and in need I got family and friends working there with no papers also police are giving a hard time to people living in tents or cars

 

You might want to hang on to your truck. There are ads all the time for O/O to haul in S TX. I see o/o leased on to Sunline in Corpus all day long.

 

I would investigate keeping the truck a little further. Guys are making some serious money out there in the oil fields working as company drivers. BUT the oil field will destroy your truck in a lickity split and have no remorse. Those "roads" out there are brutal and I was just reading an article in the paper where the state of Texas is in the process of stripping some Farm to Market state highways of the pavement and turning them into dirt roads as the pavement is too expensive to maintain with all the truck traffic.