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By Forest Basenji on Feb 15, 2010 | Reply

Tyrone

If you don’t mind becoming an over the road trucker, start by applying with any OTR company that strikes your fancy. If you want specific advice on choosing a company, feel free to message me privately with your experience and MVR history.

If you rent, think about ending your lease whenever it’s possible and consider putting your stuff in storage for now. If you own, consider getting a trustworthy house-sitter or roommate, and look into selling your house. Plan to stay on the road as much as possible. SAVE YOUR MONEY….get a mini-fridge and buy food at Wal-Mart. Putting your stuff in storage or having a roommate will diminish your monthly bills. Work for a nationwide trucking company, that allows you to take time-off anywhere in America you choose.

And take advantage of it. See a bit of the country and pick a place that interests you. Or arrange for time-off in a place you’ve always been interested in, rent a car and a hotel room for a few days and go looking at apartments, check out home prices, job availability, etc.

Take as long as you need- once you’ve been around the country for a while, you may find a place that just “speaks” to you. Or you may find a place where housing is cheap and jobs in trucking are plentiful (check in the Midwest & Plains states).

Once you’ve decided where you want to move and you’ve either sold your old place or are ending your lease, spend a few more time-off periods nailing down an actual place to stay. Once this is done, arrange for an extended hometime. Some companies will allow this, some will make you bring the truck back to a terminal and will re-assign you a new truck when you come back. Either way, take off enough time to get to your old hometown, load up your stuff and U-Haul it to the new town, and move in.

Once you’re settled someplace new, you can find another local job if that’s what you prefer. In my personal experience, having the flexibility of being OTR really allowed me to experience a variety of different places and pick exactly where I wanted to be.

It’s just one approach to the idea….You can do a lot of research about various cities online- see what housing/rent markets are like, see what job markets are like, and you can make your transition using the Intenet and phone to secure a job, place to live, etc. But the only way to really know what a city is like, is to experience it .