Hotshot Pickup Truck Driver — No CDL

Texas doesn't have one freight economy; it has six or seven, stitched together by interstates. The Gulf Coast from Beaumont to Corpus Christi is refineries, chemical plants and ports. The Permian Basin around Midland and Odessa is the most productive oilfield in the country. Dallas-Fort Worth is a distribution and construction machine. Laredo handles more Mexico trade than any other crossing, the
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Rio Grande Valley grows citrus and vegetables while factories across the river assemble goods, and the Panhandle around Amarillo runs on feedlots, wheat and wind. That spread is why hotshot work rarely dries up here. Oilfield equipment moves from Houston yards out to the Permian and the Eagle Ford, machinery and steel flow out of DFW, and farm and packing equipment heads down to the Valley before produce season. I-35 runs from Laredo through San Antonio, Austin and DFW into Oklahoma; I-10 crosses the state from Orange to El Paso, well over 800 miles; I-20, I-30, I-45 and I-37 fill in the rest, along with US-287 toward the Panhandle and I-69 taking shape in the east. Weather swings hard across all that ground. Summer heat in West Texas tests tires and coolant, hurricanes threaten the coast from June to November, and North Texas ice storms can freeze traffic for days, as February 2021 showed. Drivers living anywhere in the state have freight pointed toward home nearly every day, which makes the last leg of each rotation simple to plan. Applying starts with one short form lower down. Pay is a percentage of gross, not a per-mile rate; active drivers average $9,000 weekly gross. No CDL is needed for the pickup position, and the company provides the truck.

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