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1) No. But you have to have some sort of residency in whatever state you have your license in. You can always use a relative's address or whatever, but you have to have some sort of an address.
2) The location of your company makes no difference whatsoever. Companies will hire drivers from areas they know they can get them home to. So as long as a company hires from your area it makes no difference where the company is located.
3) I don't know what you mean exactly.
4) When you're due for time off you send a request for home time to your company. They will find you a load that either delivers near your home (as close as they can find anyhow) or a load that goes past your home with a delivery date after your home time is up. So if you're due to go home on a Saturday, they might give you a load that delivers past your house for the following Monday. You take the load home and then deliver it on Monday.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks Brett for the reply! It all makes sense except for CDL school. If I live in Montana, and I take the CDL school in Missouri, do I have to have an address and/or drivers license from Missouri? Thanks again.
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Thanks Brett for the reply! It all makes sense except for CDL school. If I live in Montana, and I take the CDL school in Missouri, do I have to have an address and/or drivers license from Missouri? Thanks again.
If you're going to prime in missouri you will get your license in missouri at a temporary adress then you have to transfer it to your home state. I'm guessing most places will be the same or they may give you the paperwork to take to your home state.
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1) Do you have to get your CDL in the state your drivers license is issued?
2) If so, is it better to move to the state where the home base for the company you want to drive for is - or where the training is?
3) Where are the locations of the end of a OTR haul? Company base, anywhere, company sites?
4) Would seem that the travel time from where your haul ends to your home would eat up most of your time off? Do you keep on taking loads until you get close to home?
5) Thanks for the site - lots of good info and people on here. Makes my clutch foot shake and butt ache.
TIA, Robo
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.