Starter Company In The Southwest

This man will hook you up @Chinatown

 

Where is your location in the Southwest?

 

Give May trucking a look, I started with them and stayed for two years. An eternity for a starter company, it was a pretty good outfit. Fair, decent miles, good equipment. The have a yard in Phoenix, Salem, OR and Payette, ID.

 

No personal income taxes in Nevada & Texas. I moved to Nevada from Tennessee.
If you can attend a private cdl school, then you can hire on with companies such as:
Abilene Motor Express
National Carriers
Freymiller
Magnum Ltd.
KKW Trucking
Navajo Express
and others.
Companies such as these hire in the states you listed, so you wouldn't have to change jobs after relocating. You will have to switch your cdl to the new state you choose.

As for company sponsored training:
Jim Palmer Trucking
Southern Refrigerated Transport
hire from the states you listed.

 

Depends on which company you want to work for. I listed a few that don't have their own school and will hire from private schools.
The two others have their own cdl school. I think Jim Palmer Trucking starts new grads from their school at .40 cpm with extra .05 cpm for fuel savings. Trucks are a lot nicer than Roehl trucks plus they have apu's so you can be comfortable without idling the truck.

 

Watkins & Shepard has a terminal in Phoenix. And I believe Swifts national headquarters is also in Phoenix.I think Knight also has a terminal there, but I'm not positive? (I'd go with Watkins out of all those I mentioned,but that's just me.) Good luck where ever you end up bud.