Living in Alaska, but driving the lower 48?

Has anyone ever done this? Ive been flirting with the idea of moving to Alaska. I have about 5 years of driving experience, but the majority of it is local within Florida. On top of that my whole life Ive lived in Florida so I have minimal snow/ice driving experience. If I attempted to move to Alaska (its all a day dream at this stage), I feel like It would be much safer to drive the lower 48 and canada for a few years before looking for a job in Alaska. Im curious if lower 48 companies would make any kind of special arrangements to let me fly in to work and fly back for home time.


Anyone ever heard of this? Probably not ....

 

Thank you china. I've seen those ads from schneider in the couple quick searches I did around alaska trucking. I would prefer not to go with schneider, but that program was actually what got me thinking if other companies would make the same type of arrangements.

I've seen the ads for Lynden. I think currently I've seen one for a local driver and one for line haul. Not sure what exactly line haul means in Alaska, haha. They are definitely on my list. I'm also going to try and e-mail a couple Alaska intrastate companies that I've found. I think it would be a long shot since I only have driven through 2 winters in the lower 48 and both were mild ... never even had to put chains on even when going over passes. But again this is all a pipe dream right now.

Another option I could take is to use a family member's address here in Florida to get hired on with a lower 48 company and just take a flight back and forth to Alaska on my own dime. If that was the case though I would need to find a carrier that wouldn't be shy about letting me accumulate like a full 7-8 day home time. Plus that would be a lot of hard earned money being disposed of with plane tickets and rent that I would only be at once every couple months. I don't know man, I don't know

 

Awesome, looking into it. Good catch!