Oklahoma OTR advice, where do i start?

Here's a cut & paste from one of your other posts w/a couple of changes:

Decker Truck Line
Melton Truck Lines
Tyson Foods
TMC
Indian River Transport
Schneider Bulk
Foodliner
Navajo Express

Companies that have online applications, submit those so they have something to look at.

You can find negative comments about every company in America; doesn't mean they're all true.

 

Any idea where you may relocate some day?

 

There's some good states with no personal income taxes and cheap housing.

Texas and Nevada are good.

 

Don't really need to re-locate. You are a trucker, all otr companies have customers everywhere and only a limited number of terminals. Look into Con-way, headquarters 8 miles from Oklahoma if you need to be close to the office.

 

Trucking wages are pretty much the same nationwide, unless you get into local hourly pay. Then usually the higher hourly pay jobs are in higher cost of living areas, though there are exceptions to this. Some OTR drivers, for example, drive for the same company and make approximately the same pay annually. One lives in New York City and pays $1500.00 rent for a small apartment and the other driver lives in Texas and pays $600.00 monthly rent for the same size apartment.

The driver in New York City is also paying state income taxes on top of high rent and the driver in Texas is NOT paying state income taxes and also paying much less rent and they both make the same money each year.

 

My Father his parents lived in Ada, OK many years ago. I think he was very young then and didn't remember much about it. I think they moved to Tennessee even before WWII.

Best wishes & keep us posted on your new career. It's a very good career.