Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Father in law lives in Knoxville, loves it there. He has a freind that owns a place where he has built / rebuilt trucks, but mostly sold used parts I guess for quite a number of years, looking at retiring but still going.

 

Glad to hear it DY! I love Eastern TN if I were to leave my area it would probably be to there. I'll be vacationing in Gatlinburg next week in fact.

Low insurance costs and no state income tax is a big reason a lot of people are moving to TN. Add in excellent gun laws and it's a good place to live

 

I was born and raised in San Jose,CA. I experienced the same thing. Now that I'm a South Dakota boy I went into the local Sheriffs office and paid 10 dollars and spent about 10 minutes filling out an application. No finger Prints needed. My temporary CCW showed up in under a week. My permanent laminated one showed up in under a month. Good for 5 years. No state Income Tax and more good trucking work than I could ever get done in my lifetime.

The grass is most certainly greener on the other side. I'll promise you that.

 

i was surprised that Nebraska's CCW program is just like California's. It took about 3-4 months after the classes for the permit to arrive. My in-laws in Iowa got theirs just as Rambling man says. Seems backwards as Iowa has somewhat draconian laws compared to nebraska.

 

Nebraska and Iowa are bad. Omaha and Des moines dominate the states Just like Silicon valley,Sacramento and Los Angeles dominate an otherwise very conservative California. South Dakota and Wyoming have no cities big enough to dominate the states. Hence their position as 2nd and 3rd as the least taxed states in the US. The only better being Alaska which pays you.

 

exactly ! I remember seeing the election map in 2008 showing Omaha and Lincoln in blue, and the rest of the state in red. A CCW in Omaha means something entirely different than a CCW in the res of the state

 

Same thing in Georgia. If you live in a rural county, the process is quick and painless. I happen to live in the county that includes most of the city of Atlanta, and it used to be a pita. I had to go downtown and apply at the magistrate there, deal with traffic/parking etc or take the train.

However, they have recently made that easier by allowing the same to be done at satellite county offices. Last time I only had to go 10 miles away to the north service center, then go across the street to the Sandy Springs police to get the finger prints done. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming it. Still took two months to come in the mail, but it wasn't a crisis since I knew it was expiring and went in early enough.

Now if they'd let me do IRP/IFTA business at my county tag office instead of driving to the dept of revenue HQ down on the sw side of Atlanta deep in the hood, I wouldn't know what to do with myself. Oh wait, we just entered the 21st century with online renewals, so I don't have to even go there any more LOL.

 

Yep, they only want criminals to have guns there. Liberal logic

 

A good thing about TN CCP is it is recognized and honored by most other states in the region southeast and midwest. Up into the northeast things get a little hairy and also don't get caught in the people's republic of Illinois either.