moving to tampa,fl

I disagree, jobs are around but not for many who do not qualify.

 

I don't know about south of I-4 but OP said he moving to Bradenton Fl which is where I live.Now Bradenton is about 45 miles south of Tampa and local gigs around here required min.of 1-3 years and pay is crap.There are jobs around Tampa yes but more you go south,more less chances of finding a company hiring.

 

Alabama Motor Express (AMX)
2 years experience

Anderson Trucking Service (ATS)
North of Jacksonville; 12 months experience

Barr-Nunn
12 months experience

CCC
Yes

Celadon
No

Covenant Transport
Yes; teams only

Crete/Shaffer/Hunt
No

CRST
Teams only

CTL
Yes with Hazmat & Tanker

Davis Express
12 months experience

Hanna
12 months experience

Heartland Express
12 months experience

JB Hunt
No

KLLM
No

Knight Transportation
No

Melton Truck Lines
2 months experience

PAM Transport
No

Prime Inc
No

Raven
3 years experience

Roehl
No

Schneider
3 months experience

Shelton
12 months experience

Southern Refrigerated
12 months experience

Star Transport
No

Stevens
No

Swift
Yes

US Express
Teams only

USA Truck
No

Werner
Yes

Wiley Sanders
12 months experience

Willis Shaw Express
No

Wil-Trans
24 months experience

These are the companies I called this week asking if they hire recent driving school grads out of Tampa. Windy Hill isn't on here, but I'm pretty sure they hire from Tampa and I believe Armenilli will hire teams from here. A lot of people here on TTR say that things can change as far as companies hiring areas, so hopefully when I get out of PTEC I can get on with a decent company.

 

Yes Texas is a great place to be for a trucker

 

Strawberry, what companies are you looking at when you finish up at PTEC?

 

JP, I have an additional hurdle besides my location (Lehigh Acres). Since hubby and I were 'self employed' with no taxes filed (there's a legal reason for that) we don't have that 'consistent work history' everyone's looking for. So, we have 2 choices - Werner or US Xpress. We are going to try Werner. US Xpress will be our back up plan lol.

Otherwise we would have to move to Tampa, to work for Swift, our back up plan to the back up plan haha.