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need some advice

Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 22:17:13 2023 No.26445705 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>26445750 >>26445826 >>26445902 >>26446949 >>26451775 >>26452433

should i get a CDL and move from seattle to tampa? id be making twice of what I currently make ($30k/year) driving a box truck for my dad's distribution business. hes moving soon and is selling it anyways.

Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 2023 22:31:17 No.26445750 Report

Quoted By: >>26445777

>>26445705
Considering Seattle's ridiculous as fuck cost of living (I also live here) - Yes. If you can make more money elsewhere, that money will also go a lot farther there. Unless it's LA... that's probably the only place worse.

Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 2023 22:36:39 No.26445777 Report

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>>26445750
then you get where im coming from (kent)
i have the opportunity to take over my fathers independent operator distribution business and the idea of being my own boss is nice. problem is one, taxes. two, i am just not happing serving people in this area (king). this is no longer the city i grew up in and something like the costal regions of florida seem right up my alley

Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 2023 23:00:15 No.26445826 Report

Quoted By: >>26445841

>>26445705
>60k a year
>moving to florida
>driving for a living

You'd be a moron not to do it anon.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 2023 23:11:13 No.26445841 Report

Quoted By: >>26450873 >>26450929

>>26445826
OP
i appreciate your words. my lady since 6th grade is hinting at wanting a baby and I know 30k wont cut it. im 28

Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 2023 23:37:15 No.26445902 Report

Quoted By: >>26445908 >>26446400

>>26445705
>CDL
>Tampa
Just know that Florida is a black hole for freight in that freight goes in but nothing comes back out. A lot of carriers won't hire out of Florida for that reason since it's difficult to get drivers routed home and back out for home time without having to eat a deadhead run back to Atlanta or something.

Anonymous Thu 16 Mar 2023 23:39:32 No.26445908 Report

Quoted By: >>26446397 >>26450881

>>26445902
you sound like you know what you're talking about. sad thing is, i don't. care to elaborate?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Mar 2023 03:03:04 No.26446397 Report

Quoted By: >>26448872 >>26449661

>>26445908
Generally it's best to live somewhere along the main lanes of freight travel or in one of the destination cities. Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, L.A., and of course New York are all cities where the greatest amount of freight either goes or originates so living in those cities or along the corridors between them makes it easier for companies to route you home and back out again. Along I-80 is a good choice too since it moves a lot of freight from the west coast through SLC to Chicago. Oh and two other states that are typically blacked out, so to speak, are North Carolina and Montana since they're out of the way and don't produce a ton of freight.

Now if you happen to get a carrier that has you running a lane from say Chicago to Texas then you would want to live on either end since there would likely be some layover time in loading or delivery and you could sneak in a visit home without using up days off. It's possible, but less likely, that you could get in the occasional 34hr reset at home if you lived along the route but ime living on either end is better.If you're just doing the regular old pick-up-whatever-going-wherever type trucking the just somewhere along one of the major interstates between the big cities would be fine.

Anonymous Fri 17 Mar 2023 03:03:46 No.26446400 Report

Quoted By: >>26446763 >>26450881

>>26445902
Isn't Jacksonville the overland freight capital of America?

Anonymous Fri 17 Mar 2023 05:48:11 No.26446763 Report

Quoted By: >>26446832

>>26446400
Sure thing, buddy.

Anonymous Fri 17 Mar 2023 06:22:14 No.26446832 Report

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>>26446763
Just say no. It's a question in search of an answer.

Anonymous Fri 17 Mar 2023 08:12:03 No.26446949 Report

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>>26445705
That pic is a wild crossover of high school memories

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Anonymous Fri 17 Mar 2023 22:32:26 No.26448872 Report

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>>26446397
thanks

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 03:30:50 No.26449661 Report

Quoted By: >>26450978

>>26446397
anon is not planning on being an OTR trucker though. He is gonna run local for his dad in FLA
None of that applies to him

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 14:14:53 No.26450624 Report

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bump

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 15:51:38 No.26450873 Report

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>>26445841
You're awesome anon. You're going to make it. Get out of that shithole, move to a white area, live as cheap as possible, don't get into debt, and have lots of babies.
When you're old and grey, I promise you the only thing that will have truly mattered is your children.

I would also, as you drive and learn the industry, be working on a plan to start your own trucking company. You can only drive so many hours in a day, but if you have 10, 30, 100 people driving for you, that number exponentially increases your profit potential.

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 15:53:34 No.26450881 Report

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>>26450873
>>26448872
>>26446400
>>26445908

Based non depressing thread. I don't drive a truck and don't live in florida, but I'm gonna stick around here for a minute to bask in good vibes.

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 16:13:22 No.26450929 Report

Quoted By: >>26451763

>>26445841
Southeast life is affordable with good gun laws. Escaping the Left coast is a very good idea and drivers will not be replaced by automation any time soon because so much of the work a driver does is not driving. Get all your HazMat endorsements etc so if needed you can work anywhere.

Find where truckers congregate online and pick brains.

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 16:40:21 No.26450978 Report

Quoted By: >>26451763

>>26449661
>should i get a CDL and
Are you sure? Why else would he need a cdl? It doesn't make sense for his dad to run a local box truck in Seattle and Orlando. Op is striking out on his own.

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 19:09:38 No.26451320 Report

Quoted By: >>26451763

Trucking industry has taken a giant shit this year.
Layoffs everywhere
Guys getting shit miles
Terrible time to get a cdl

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 21:51:19 No.26451763 Report

Quoted By: >>26451974

OP

>>26450929
I will keep that in mind regarding hazmat certs. who knows where ill go. im biting the bullets and using reddit to skim info from related subs. not sure if there are many active independent trucking forums left, excluding mechanical repairs.
>>26450978
this is correct. my parents are moving to south carolina. my father plans to purchase a small, low maintenance car wash.
>>26451320
looks like i fucked up not getting my cdl permit prior to Q1 2022. oh well, nothing i can do about it

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 21:55:25 No.26451775 Report

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>>26445705
No lol

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 21:59:23 No.26451787 Report

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>Move from one expensive shithole to another
How fucking stupid are you OP?

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 22:08:56 No.26451814 Report

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>>26451787
born in MO, lived there off and on for years. I'll probably retire somewhere back near where I was born. for now, I'm living it up.

Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 23:03:44 No.26451974 Report

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>>26451763
you’ll probably be going through southeast container terminals if you’re thinking about truck driving. like the other anon said about truck drivers, try harvesting the brains of some of the port staff to try to get in on an extras list. grab yourself a twic card if you don’t have one already

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:05:44 No.26452433 Report

Quoted By: >>26452479

>>26445705
I read that in coach McGuirks voice

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:26:47 No.26452479 Report

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>>26452433
It's a wonderful life.

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