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It's not weird at all. It is a legality. They legally have to get you home for doctors, elections and home time. Your registered address is not in their hiring area. .over your license. If they don't have the freight to do so, they won't hire in that area.

I love when people use discrimination in these situations. YES all hiring is discrimination and weeding out who they want vs who is available.

Prime has more FL drivers on the fleet than any other state. This limits the ability to get them home. Therefore every couple of years, they stop hiring from Florida. This hiring freeze is on now. Even rehires cannot get hired.

It's just business

Great points. Not all discrimination is violating a person's rights. You can think of it like this: If it's something where you have a choice in it, then it's probably not protected from discrimination. If it's something having to do with how you were born or something that is beyond your control to change, then it's probably protected from discrimination.

Race, gender, age. Those things can't be changed, so we have rights to protect against such discrimination.

Place of residence, how a person dresses, whether or not a person uses drugs. Those are choices, so we do not have rights protecting us from being discriminated against on the basis of these things.

Off the top of my head, Knight and Werner both have terminals in Lakeland, so I would think would be a good option if you are willing to drive to their terminals. Cheney Brothers has a few locations including south Florida as well if you are ok with doing food service delivery.