SD Domicile Limiting My School Options

I am a full-time RVer that is domiciled in SD for the purpose of licensing, auto registrations, insurance, voting, etc. I spend most of my winters in the Southern CA, AZ areas or even Mexico. These are the area(s) that I am hoping to find Company Sponsored CDL Training.

Unfortunately, three of my preferred companies thus far will not sponsor and/or hire out of SD. I've explained that I do not live there (or anywhere) and certainly do not want SD to be my home time destination!

Any other Nomads out there? Any thoughts or suggestions? If at all possible, I don't want to change my domicile state.

Thanks

~ Mojo

Change your official residence is the easiest answer. It may be a bit of a pain, but nothing extreme.

You didn't name the companies you want to work for so I can't know for sure, but it sounds like their problem is with SD, NOT California. Fortunately for you California is a huge state and there are plenty of places in California most companies will hire from. Change your address to Los Angeles/Riverside or Sacramento - keeping your domicile state - but putting yourself in major freight lanes that employers will hire from.

I take it the OP does not actually live in SD, but uses a mail service there, licenses their vehicles and income taxes are lower. Unfortunately you will need to change your state of domicile to one they will hire from. The downside is, pick your state carefully, some states will flag you because they know some people use SD, just like they do MT LLC's to avoid paying taxes. Good luck.

If you don't want state income tax and the company you are looking at hires out of Tennessee. You can always change to TN.

Yeah, South Dakota is well-known to people who want to avoid taxes, since you can stay one night in a motel there, get a P.O. Box, and then get your driver's license, license plates, etc. at very low tax rates.

On the other hand, South Dakota is well-known in the trucking world for having almost no freight, so if your driver's license is from there, a lot of companies figure you'll want to go home there and they don't want to deadhead you out to I-80 or over to Minneapolis. (Reefer is a little different probably, since there are packing houses that are closer, but not every company has loads out of those plants.)

If you want to keep avoiding California taxes (who wouldn't?), try one of the other six states with no income tax. Nevada is the nearest to you. Texas has the most freight.