Want to relocate Vs. Must live in hiring area

No, didn't look for a job here. Plenty of jobs available though for local, regional, OTR. Any trucker moving here can be at work as soon as they get an address established and cdl transferred to Nevada. DMV told me just need an eye test to transfer cdl. Of course a Hazmat endorsement must be done again.
Plenty of tanker jobs here plus Estes Express is hiring for line haul and some other outfits for line haul. Lots of local stuff dealing with the new Interstate 11 being built. It will run from Mexico to Canada. It's running through Las Vegas.

 

Make your move; trucking jobs are plentiful almost anywhere.

 

Carolinas have a lot of jobs and mild winters and not quite as hot as south Florida.

 

I don't think it's that far-fetched to find an out of state job without a residence there. Especially in the trucking world. Just make an above average application and put a note in there that you are trying to relocate. Then, the most important part, is to call within a few days and get a hold of a manager or someone who deals with hiring, explain the situation. Moving for a job is not that difficult. You can easily just get an extended stay hotel until you find a reasonable place to rent. The biggest issue would be allowing you to use an out of state CDL (if it's a local carrier) before you get a residence in state.

I've landed a local job hundreds of miles away by simply filling out an app and getting a hold of the hiring manager to let him know my intention of moving to their city. However, this was still in the same state, so admittedly it was much easier and simple.

Now if your looking for OTR or regional, those companies will have large hiring areas. I live in Florida and work for a company out of Missouri that runs all 48 and Canada.

 

Your cdl address has to match your domicile address is the catch. How many companies actually check that? Who nows?

 

I think the in-state CDL thing is only for local gigs. Never heard of a regional or OTR gig wanting your license to be from a specific state. Now, I thought the local gigs required it for insurance reasons, as maybe they only have authority for intrastate commerce. But then I remember my last local job required and in-state license even though they had terminals in every state on the east coast? And they would also let you transfer terminals after a year of service. Which THEN got me wondering if the major LTL's require an in-state license for the area you run out of?