Move west young man.....(a little long)

Call praxair and get in a truck. Don't fixate on location, nothing is permanent, everything is temporary. Find the job you want and move to where it makes most sense. After a couple of years, upgrade to the next station in life.

On a personal note, SLC is a BIG change from FLA. Probably about 10 degrees this morning.... and snowing now.

 

SLC is a great place for a local job. New mexico sucks and is a complete ####hole.

 

SLC Utah area is nice and a good place to truck with I-80 and I-15 running right through it. A boat load of trucking companies there and seems to be truck friendly. Lots of smaller towns all on the outskirts of SLC. Dont move to Cali because they are anti truck, anti business, pro homeless and criminals running sround everywhere.

 

Reno is nice but not the best area for a trucking career, and then you have the infamous Donner pass you would have to negotiate every winter. The phoenix are is pro Truck, pro gun, pro business and good place to live. Hot, but no humidity like Florida.

 

The freight in phoenix sucks unless u pull dry van or reefer

 

Yep your wanting to move to Idaho, totally the spot for you!! Truck friendly lots of local jobs and lots of recreational things to do!!!

 

Don't let your dream become a nightmare by moving to Albucrazy or Tucson as both are high crime cities.

Nothing like coming home to your apartment complex crawling with cops because some punks murdered each other. Or waking up to discover your vehicle is missing.

Bad neighborhood? Every neighborhood in Tucson is bad. If you simply must live in Tucson, consider Oro Valley or Green Valley.

In Arizona, Phoenix has all the good jobs.

I know next to nothing about ABQ other than it's another high crime city. But I do enjoy that I can park my tractor and trailer along Broadway off I-25 to peruse the junkyards.

I've considered moving to SLC once upon a time. There is or was good local work to be had outside of Tooele (two-ellee).

SLC is a trucking Mecca, so finding local work there would be very easy.

@Chinatown can offer many suggestions as to finding work in the Las Vegas area.

Delivering to Flowers bakery several days ago, I decided to look at rental home prices in Henderson. It's possible to rent a 2000 square foot three or four bedroom house for under $1600 per month. Check out listings on Zillow.

Mesquite, Nevada is growing town, too.
Don't know anything about what's going on there, but Mesquite does have a new Flying J and Walmart.

Buckeye, Arizona is also growing quickly, but the water quality is truly awful.

 

I live in Henderson and you're right about the rent. Beautiful area. I don't rent, but rent is reasonable.
Good friend of mine lives in SLC (Sandy) and loves it there, except for the snow.
I'd narrow it down to SLC, Phoenix, Las Vegas/Henderson.
Personally, I also like Winnemucca and Reno and they're both on Interstate 80.
Henderson & Las Vegas are on Interstate 15 and the new Interstate 11.
One big draw for me, moving to Nevada, is no state income taxes and no food taxes at the grocery store.

 

Plenty of local and western 11 jobs in Phoenix, SLC, and the cities I mentioned in Nevada.
Several line haul outfits, such as Old Dominion and Estes Express which pay really well.
@Accidental Trucker mentioned Praxair, and that company has plenty of terminals.
Plenty of tanker jobs also in the cities you listed.
@CK73 can give you information on Reno.