Busiest Cities for Linehaul work

Dallas/forth worth is a busy city alout of freight coming in and out . Cost of living not bad summer weather hot winter not that bad.

 

Fed Ex is the largest, Next is UPS then YRC then all the other guys. A apartment is about 850.00 for a 1 bedroom.... prices just started going up. It really is cheap to live here and if your other half works you can live very nice

 

The trick on finding heavy line haul freight is to look on a map and find where all the big cities are. They are usually on the west coat, east coast, Great Lakes, and Texas. In between these large cities there are smaller cities. A good percentage of freight on the west coast moves east to the east coast and visa versa. In between the west coast and the east coast are decent sized cities in which all the freight moves through. For Line Haul positions, these central cities have what's called a sort. In a sort they unload trucks and combine all the freight from Portland, SanFran, and LA that's going to NYC, or something like that. They do this with all the destination spots. Portland may have half a load of stuff going to DC and half a load going to Boston. San Fran will have the same kinds of stuff on their trailer. These trailers will meet in Denver and they'll sort everything at FedEx, UPS, SAIA, OD, or whatever, and combine them all so that all freight goes to the destination city. With a central hub like Denver or Kansas City, there is always freight being sorted, either going east or west, north or south.
A couple of east/west cities that are on the trade routes between the east and west coast are Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, Phoenix. For north/south trading routes there is Sacramento, Kansas City, St. Louis, Des Moines, Louisville, Memphis. These are just a handful of them. There are more. This is just to show that the trick is to try to find a good sized metro area that is between the trade routes that all freight has to pass through. If you do Linehaul you will always have work.
I live in Denver and we always have freight going east or west on I70 as well as freight going west on the death road of I80 in Wyoming.