Want to relocate Vs. Must live in hiring area

Sign on with a good company. Live in the truck and never go back. I haven't even been to the address on my license in five years. My company let's me take my home time anywhere. One month it's skiing in Colorado the next it's nude beach in Miami. Screw mobile Alabama has the worst truck stops in the country.

 

Yes they would. Good places to live and work are where 2 or more interstate highways intersect. That usually signals lots of shipping and/or manufacturing.

I would suggest you research trucking companies until you find one that seems to be especially good for drivers. Then look at where they have terminals and their hiring areas. Then look at cities in that area and see if you can be happy there. It's a lot to risk deciding to do this job, find a company, and a place to live all at the same time. If you get a CDL where you live, you can do the job to see if it fits you. It doesn't fit everyone. Most 1st year drivers don't last the full year before they quit. This could be avoided with serious thinking about how you do spending many hours alone and dealing with stress due to traffic. Many newbies seem to rush into this job with little preparation and high expectations. The bad companies in this industry will abuse you and underpay you and put you in bad situations that make it easy to get tickets and accidents on your record, which makes it hard to work anyplace better.

 

PTI; is that Paschall Truck Lines?
I bet Schneider Bulk will hire you; give it a try.

 

Now you, at least, have good weather year round and probably much less cost of living.

 

I moved 1500 miles on two words. "I do" and two hours at the Revenuer and Tax division sealed the deal with Arkansas. I had traveled all around the USA in a big truck and will continue to do so for a while at that time. The actual moving was 7 days clothes, money from one bank to another electronically and a demand to the Maryland Voter Registration to drop my name from that roll of Republican. Eventually I sent the same demand to Arkansas to drop that party all together and be strictly independent with none of the party BS.

Moving to Arkansas from Maryland based on those two words was some of the easiest tasks I have ever done. Take the brief case containing my personal papers etc and out into another truck and go on down the road, leaving the rest at the house after the honeymoon which itself was very short by necessity.

I had good work in Maryland up to that time, when a company called Ronnie Dowdy told me to come here in the South and see about getting on with the Reefer work to the western states, it was a life changing opportunity. Without these fine people in that company I would have had no future at all such as it is.

Moving to where the job is very easy. It's the actual decision to commit to and discard the excess minutia of your previous failed economic life that is hard.

 

Currently looking at PTI how is it going for you? If you’re there can you tell me if the Trucks are governed & to what? They advertise the new freightliners trucks is that likely? And paper is this heavy loads I’ve pulled some paper rolls not sure if this would be the same thing
Thanks in advance

Also how long was orientation PM if u prefer