Best Place to live as a Trucker,

Good point. All you really need is a mailbox for a home address, and as for the dirt lot there's a really good one just NW of exit 140 on I-40 in Oklahoma City (the exit with the T/A, Love's, Pilot, and Flying J all right there). My brother is renting a parking spot in a secured lot with a guard shack for $95. For that you can park your trailer or full rig, there are showers, a lunch room, TV room, and a shop with spare parts and very very friendly and helpful staff. If you want you can bobtail the mile or two to the truck stops. Parking for a few hundred trailers and some pretty big companies are renting space for using it as their terminal.

 

Not just for dry van but reefer too for the produce from Oxnard, the San Joaquin Valley, San Diego, and Coachella. Los Angeles is the best city for a career trucker followed by Chicago in second, and perhaps Dallas/Fort Worth in third.

 

Yeah go live in CA..... Buy a truck with all sorts of stupid filters and extra fluid needed to run, then go pay a crazy stupid ridiculous amount of taxes too. Why not just live in Vegas, Pheonix, Yuma, ect?

 

I wouldn't, and didn't live anywhere for close to 4 years. Had my mail sent to my brother's house and visited friends all over the midwest. Why pay rent, mortgage, or even property tax on a place to live when you have nobody to come home to?

 

If I didn't get married when I was in the Marine Corp, that is exactly what I would be doing! Especially since I have friends that now live everywhere! From FL-AK-AZ-ME! It would be me a dog and a truck!

 

I would personally live in Denver or salt lake city. I love all the snow and ice. Beautiful scenery and just so much to do.. I wouldn't stay fat long. Plus lots of freight usually heads from salt lake right up to WA or out to pa. Denver usually ships out to the Midwest.. A nice Midwest to Denver back to Midwest loop would suit me just fine. Maybe I could even get on with western and drive a hood again. Sure, pay isn't the best but who cares if you got a hood and no family. Lol. Either way, that's my choices.

 

If you are an O/O with an old truck you would be correct but for a career company driver it is the best place also because just about every majory company has a terminal around LA. If you can't find a job in So-Cal you can't find it anywhere. I am no stranger to high state income taxes being from I'll. I forgot the exact figure but California's state income tax is only slightly higher than IL

 

Something else you can do is donate money to a homeless shelter in exchange for using their address as a legal residence. Do this in a no income tax state(NV, TX, WY, WA, TN, FL, SD, NH, DE). Open a UPS Store box to get most of your mail. Just have DMV mail sent to the legal address at the shelter. They can call you if you grt anything and maybe forward it to the UPS Store address. You can have UPS Store forward your mail anywhre in the world for postage cost and a small fee. Other than that, all you need is a storage rental for your stuff.

There you go, no rent, no house costs, no home owner's insurance, no property tax, no state income tax. Plus you can deduct whatever you pay the homeless shelter.

Take your time off anywhere you want. Hostels are a cheap hangout option for time off.

Now, what about transportation? Buy a cheap motorcycle or car(doesn't even need to run) and put full coverage insurance on it. This is so you can rent a car when you need one and use the beater's full coverage nsurance to cover the rental vs paying for the rental car company's overpriced insurance. You'll need one good travel type Visa card to rent the car or to buy a plane ticket with, if you want to take timeoff in Thailand or somewhere.

No car payment, no house, no state income tax and you are a good citizen for donating to the homeless shelter.

 

Or better yet sleep at the homeless shelter if you pass through town once a month or so. I'm sure they'd gladly give you a cot and hot for donating money to them. Just leave any valuables in the truck as you don't know if the bums there have sticky fingers or not.

 

I'd have to go with Fort Worth, TX.

Pretty much everybody hires out of & runs through there, so home time if/when I chose to take it would never be a problem, and two major freight lanes run through there.

Oh right, and no state income tax is nice.