New to this all!

Doubt you'll find a company that will let you work one trip every few months.
Get a local job where you're home every day.

 

Encourage them to move to a state with no state income taxes. This will really be a benefit to you so you can keep more of your paycheck.

 

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Chinatown (above) is right.

Especially in the current CDL job market -- carriers are not looking for/interested in an "occasional" driver....

-- L

 

Hi Bob, and welcome. I don't mean to be insensitive with the "popcorn", it's just we hear this quite often and plays out like a movie sometimes. Short answer, only in rare situations does a trucking job revolve around you. Unless a dedicated account, meaning, you do the same thing everyday, trucking is basically an "on call" job, you don't make money visiting relatives in a certain area. Many times folks confuse trucking with driving the minivan to grannies on Sunday. It's not a "paid vacation", as some wish, and I'd look elsewhere if you want that kind of relationship with the kid.

 

lol the popcorn cracks me up

 

Care to explain this? No income tax does not mean no tax.
How do 9 states get by with no income tax? A tax expert explains the trade-offs they choose

 

I've lived in 3 states with no state income tax. They are all excellent places to live.
I'm now in Nevada. No state income tax and no tax on food at the grocery stores. Property taxes are low. There is an entertainment tax which brings in lots of money. Nevada, especially Las Vegas, is a vacation destination for people from all over the world, so that entertainment tax rakes the money in.

 

Same way with New Hampshire, they have so much tourism that’s where a lot of the money comes from. At times in town there’s far more Massachusetts tags than New Hampshire tags on the cars.