Good paying local jobs in South Dakota?

I can see South Dakota if I stand on my roof, and about an Hour from Sioux Falls. There's tons of local jobs in this area.. some seasonal but plenty of Full time. Yes sometimes Winter here sucks. Sometimes it's not bad...

 

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LTL Freight Shipping - Sioux Falls SD - Sioux City IA | Estes

 

Cliff Viessman Trucking
215 1st. Ave, Gary, SD 57237

 

South Dakota - Aerotek

 

Driven thru the badlands , like another planet .

 

As a 55 year MN resident, anywhere in the upper midwest or Intermountain west is gonna be an adjustment for a S Georgia resident..lol

 

"Local" jobs in SD?

The biggest city is Sioux Falls. It is 4.5 miles wide and 9 miles long. "Local" is going to mean "where ever you can get to and get back home in a day". And depending on weather, you might be sleeping in the truck.

I used to run linehaul from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls and back 5 days a week for a few years (back in the 90s). The winters are brutal for ME (and I lived in Minnesota for around 60 years). I just moved to Florida (give you one guess as to why). I worked at Estes for a couple of years about 10 years ago and I was looking at transferring to their Sioux Falls terminal (for tax reasons - Minnesota has one of the highest state taxes and SD has none) and there were never any openings. Just because something like glassdoor says there are lots of jobs dont make it so.

Watch out for the deer, they are a hell of a lot bigger than in Ga and will take out your truck, and the turkeys flying across the hiway at windshield height are entertaining as well...

 

I currently live in Wisconsin and I can tell you that yes the upper Midwest sucks in the winter and in The Dakotas specifically it is very windy all the time. I remember doing Conestoga runs from the upper peninsula in Michigan to the Sioux Falls area in the middle of winter 2 years ago and there was always a ton of snow coming through Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota but for some reason as soon as you get into North or South Dakota the wind picks up substantially.

I have thought about moving to South Dakota before to do things probably similar to what you're thinking. I have moved to North Dakota before to do oil field work and aside from the pay everything pretty much sucked because it's boring out there aside from some decent scenery here and there. I can think of plenty of good reasons to go to South Dakota but honestly I'm trying to get out of the upper Midwest and more to the middle Midwest as in southern Indiana right now because I'm done with living through the winters up here if I can help it.

 

The Dakotas are awesome. I’ll never leave.