Florida A Good Trucker State

Is Florida a good trucker state meaning plenty of work. I'm looking to move back to Southern Florida Fort Lduderdale maybe Tampa

I recommend you look at the different companies listed here on TT & websites for other companies you know of. Look at their hiring regions and call them. I live in Florida panhandle and opportunities here are very different from FL Peninsula.

Plus what kind of driving are you looking for in FL? If it is OTR , seems Tampa area would be limited, but if it is regional you're looking for, maybe more opportunities and if you're looking for dedicated. Well, somebody's gotta deliver all that stuff to Miami, FT. Lauderdale and the Keys.

Good luck.

Michael, Florida is notoriously bad for trucking. If you will look at trucking company web sites and check out their hiring areas, you'll find that many of them will not hire from Florida. The reason is that there is very little freight that comes out of Florida. The freight that does come out is cheap because just about anyone who gets a truck down there will grab any load they can get their hands on to pay their way back out of there - it's a problem. There are a few flat-bed companies in Florida that might be worth looking into - Cypress is the name of one that comes to mind.

As a general rule the panhandle area is better than the southern parts for being able to get hired for an OTR position. My somewhat limited experience with delivering down into Florida is that I usually had to dead-head up to Savannah Georgia to get a decent paying load out of that area.

I've done a bit of research in my area of central Florida. There are several LTL companies in the Orlando area ( sysco, conway, fedex etc..) So Florida wise I think Orlando is a great area. Pretty much nada in my area of Daytona unless you don't mind commuting to Orlando every day , an hour, working a 10-14 hour day and an hour back home.

Any of the major cities ( Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa) are good places for LTL.

Of course there are several OTR companies that hire out of Florida as well. I drive for Prime and never have a problem getting freight into, or out of central Florida as we have major accounts in Bradenton, Auburndale and Jacksonville. We have freight near Miami but it's floral runs and is kinda seasonal and mostly goes to teams.

Werner has some local regional runs out of central Florida, but are very hard to get out of the box. They want you to start OTR then put you on a waiting list until an opening comes. Marten hires out of Florida as I get calls from them still every two weeks or so.

Western express also hires out of Florida.

As mentioned before fill out the application from TT and call up the companies listed. Good luck!

To piggy back about what Terry was saying about Prime in Florida, there was a guy in my class who they brought in out of Sarasota, so I'm seems Prime's hiring area is digging deeper down into Florida than it once was.