Albuquerque New Mexico

@Chinatown

 

How bout downtown Los Angeles?

 

There are some mom and pop out here. Mostly word of mouth and craigslist to find them. If you look into moving to the greater Albuquerque area. I would avoid the west side , Rio Rancho areas and the south side of Albuquerque. I live in the east mountain area, a short commute to Albuquerque. Up where I, it's about 10 degrees cooler then Albuquerque. Your money buys a lot more house and land. The people are a lot more friendly and just really nice area to live. There's a ski area and national forest in east mountain area. Those areas would the North and South 14 corridor. The greater Edgewood area. Anything east of of Edgewood and your out on the eastern plains.

The wind is nasty out there! I've been blow out of the cab of bobtail out on the plains!!!

 

Check these two websites for jobs in Albuquerque:
Craigslist
Indeed

I did similar to what you're doing; looked for a new place to live. I'm in Nevada now after lots of research. I even looked at Globe, AZ.

city-data.com is an excellent website also and is one I used to help me decide.

 

Last time I was in Albuquerque some dude stood up from a pickup truck he was laying face down in and started shooting an automatic rifle.

Lotsa ppl laying down in the back of pick up trucks in that town.... Like the one dude said west side seems to give a bad vibe.

Post office has a decent size terminal there if you can get on there.

 

Swift has a terminal in Albuquerque. Estes, Conway Freight, Mesilla Valley Trucking, ABF, there's some companies here.

 

When I ran OTR, it always seemed like abq was a dead area for freight. A delivery at that Walmart DC south of town always meant a long dead head to Phoenix or Amarillo or the meat plants in western KS. Seems like I remember always seeing day cabs pulling belly dumps around that area a lot. A local gig might be the way to go if you do move there. As others have said, check Craigslist for that area to get a feel for who's hiring for what.