Best States To Live In For Trucking

Thxs mg for the sound advice im gonna keep my eyes peel and think more on this

Excellent insights from everyone!

The way hiring areas work for any company is pretty simple. Companies come up with strategies for the types of freight they're going to haul and where they're going to haul it. So they wind up running certain areas of the country. Some companies run coast to coast, some stay within certain regions - it varies wildly.

When a company runs a certain region regularly they'll be willing to hire from that region as long as there are no state laws or anything making that prohibitive for them. For instance, Illinois has some crazy strict laws governing CDLs and some companies won't hire from there. Of course they also have the third largest city in the country and it happens to be a major trucking hub so there's no shortage of companies hiring from Illinois.

The Carolinas East of I-95 do not have much in the way of incoming or outgoing freight (relatively speaking) so a lot of companies either don't run there or don't go there often enough to feel comfortable hiring from there. They want to make sure that when it's time to get someone home they can do so with few, if any, unpaid miles. They don't want to waste $150 in fuel and half a day's drive every time someone has to go home. They'd like to give you a load that runs right by your house or delivers very close by.

Thank u brett that made sense because its true . i just hope whoever i choose to go for my training / gettin my feet wet into this industry can understand this