Where to call home??

Get a PO Box

 

Put "RV mail service" into Google and a bunch of good info will come up. Also try "mail service" in the search engine here too.
The cool thing is you can get a address in a no state income tax state. Some have services that will open, scan and email your letters to you so you get everything right away.
Some state have easy hoops to jump through and some are harder. It can also matter where you choose due to companies having different highering/pay scale for different areas.
Don't do this till at least six months after being out on your own. Trucking has a high rate of people who leave the industry in the first year. Make sure it's right for you before going all in.
Good luck.

 

Escapees RV Club specializes in what you want.
Can get a legal address in an income tax-free state.
Has mail forwarding service also.
Florida
Texas
South Dakota
Several drivers on this forum have done that.
Have to jump through some hoops for the Texas one, but Florida and South Dakota are simple.
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Domicile

 

Which state do you live in now?

 

We use a mailbox service . They can receive packages as well from any carrier.

We have a house but we use that address for all things. I agree use a no state income tax state.

 

I use my daughter's address as my legal residence. She saves my mail for me too and if I get or am expecting something important in the mail or package delivery, she keeps me updated. All my stuff is sitting in a storage unit till the faithful day I come off the road and have to live like a real person again!

 

If you already live in an income tax-free state and just need mail service, here's one:
Mail Forwarding Services at St Brendan's Isle
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What is your current state of residence?

 

You can get a US Mail PO Box. Whether you have a home or a PO box you can and should sign up for the USPS service called Informed Delivery. They send a pic of the mail arriving into your mailbox/POB to the email address you give them. You can retrieve the mail from your mailbox/POB every few weeks or month. The service is free. The PO Box is not free. There are businesses like UPS Store, The Postal Annex, and others that may offer private POBoxes, however in my experience they are MUCH,MUCH,MUCH more expensive than a USPS POB. I pay $106 every 6 months for a USPS POBox of a certain size. When I looked at a nearby UPS Store they were charging $60 per month for similar size box.

There are also mail-forwarding businesses that will rent you a POB and you can pay for additional services. For example, you can have them email a pic of each item you receive. You can pay them to open certain items and email a pic of the contents to you. Do in internet search for mail-forwarding services. Your best bet is to go to forums and message boards for RV users. Most truck drivers get their mail at their home, or at the home of a friend or family member. Some drivers get mail at their trucking company terminal, if the company allows it. The RV people are the experts it how to do this.

Be aware that you will need to have a physical residence for your CDL/Driver license. My state uses things like utility bills (NOT CELLPHONE BILLS), mortgage,rental agreements, car registration, and other items. I believe South Dakota, makes it the easiest of the 50 states to establish legal residence. However, even in SD you will need to at least visit and appear at some govt office to establish residence. IIRC, one of the "nomads" I watch on YouTube hired a mail-forwarder in South Dakota and paid them to do everything prior to his visit to SD. Then once those things were accomplished or arranged he was in the state for 1 day to get his car license plate, get his car driver's license, etc and then left. With the CDL, and if you have a HazMat endorsement, it will take at least 2 trips to the DMV to transfer from your current state to a SD license. This can be very easy and simple or more complicated and expensive, depending on what you need. The more virtual, without any fixed physical address, the more complicated it gets. Obviously you want to pick a state with no state income tax. Google those 8 or 9 states.

I lived that way for last year. I had family back home that would check my POB once or twice per month and throw out the junk mail and notify me of important mail. One thing I really missed was ALMOST not being able to get packages from Amazon/mail-order. I was able to have a package sent to a family member and then they would mail it to a store like a UPS Store in a city I drive past several times per month. They nly charged me $5 per package and they would hold that package until I picked it up. If I ordered something from Amazon or online I could have that delivered directly to the "UPS Store" I used. Mostly I just bought everything in a physical store and walked out with it. The "UPS Store" I was using wasn't open 24/7. So I had to accurately estimate when I would be near my "UPS Store" during their open hours. I was using a store called The Postal Annex, which is identical in purpose to a UPS Store, but they are a much smaller competitor. The UPS Stores in the area I ran were not truck friendly and not all of these types of stores will accept packages for some stranger. Some of the stores only accept packages for those renting a POB.

I forgot to add Amazon can ship a package to one of their Amazon Lockers, you tell them which location. However, I believe if the package is not picked up in 3 days, maybe it is 5 or 7 days, then the package is sent back to Amazon. There is a TA somewhere in IL or OH that had Amazon Lockers in the truck stop. I can't remember where it was.