Moving to Florida

You better plan on being out on the road a LONG!!!! time. There is VERY little freight out of Florida but tons going in. The outbound is seasonal produce and whatnot.
FL is not th place to live f you want to drive otr. It's actually about the worst place I can think of

 

i agree with you one hundred percent and if you have the time in i used to work for a metal building company here in north al in shipping dept and would send a alot of loads with shelton trucking and alot of the drivers was from florida and they seemed happy but very small sleepers

 

All I can say is, Can I move there to . I want to move to Florida out of this nasty -8 degree weather

 

YOU ain't alone! Iam getting real sick of these temps!

 

Why not? Housing is plentiful. New housing to boot. Pasco County, North of Tampa is full of new starts that are not occupied.

Trucking... ...you gotta be hitched to a mega carrier and live in a line North of Orlando to get a ride in and out of Florida and make money.

 

What part of Fl? Davis in Starke, Fl (N central) is a decent sized company. I don't work for them but I occaisionally entertain the idea of checking them out. Jax also has Cypress express, a flatbed co.. Southpoint Refridgerated, FFE, Knight Trans, and a few other big companies are all located along the I-4 corridor. I haven't worked for any of them but I know they're a few of the ones around. good luck

 

it's humid here but nothing like FL. I went there last month to pick up my truck. I got off the plane in Tampa and died from the humidity. And being in southeast TX that is saying something.

HEy logs, I spent a good part of the day sitting on the porch in shorts and no shirt sipping on a few brews! it was about 68 today. sorry, I an compelled to rub those things in!! You ca give it back to me in may when it's 100 degrees and 100%humidity

 

Tampa is a great place to move at this point. Real Estate depreciation is second highest of any city in North America according to this months reports. Number 2 biggest price drop in the nation on one estimate, Number 4 on another in the nation in real estate depreciation since this time last year.

Prices on homes dropped a whopping 10% from last year. Foreclosures also are skyrocketing, higher rates than most places across the USA, so you can drive down the street and literally see 5-10 for sale signs on a single block.

The city and its homes are ripe for pickin'!!!! Unless, of course, you are gambling, like a lot of people, that prices are going to keep dropping....who knows?

YIKES!

 

As a long x res. of tampa you do get use to the heat/humidity, i just started driving, i had a difficult x at best of even being offered a position.

being in FL. noone seems to want to hire out of this area!

i did however get a position with a OTR co. out of OR. and i luv it thus far.

they said at orientation that that dont hire ppl from areas if they did'nt think that they could get us home.