CDL Truck Driving Jobs in Kansas

Beef and the harvest

Dodge City, Garden City, and Liberal anchor a beef packing complex that ships boxed beef nationwide, and that is refrigerated freight leaving the state constantly. The wheat harvest is the other rhythm: it moves roughly south to north through June and July, and hopper bottoms follow it. These are two very different kinds of work in the same state.

The Air Capital

Wichita calls itself the Air Capital of the World, and with Spirit AeroSystems, Textron, and Learjet operations there the aviation manufacturing base is substantial. That freight is often oversize, delicate, or both, and it moves on flatbeds and specialized trailers rather than in vans.

Logistics Park Kansas City

Edgerton, southwest of Kansas City, holds a roughly 3,000 acre BNSF intermodal and distribution park that is among the largest inland hubs in the western half of the country. It has pulled serious dry van and drayage work into a spot that was farmland not long ago. I-70 and I-35 carry the rest of the state's freight.

Finding driving work in Kansas

Southwest Kansas beef country hires reefer drivers year round and does not follow retail cycles, which makes it steadier than a lot of freight. The wheat harvest is seasonal work that suits drivers who want an intense stretch and then a break.

Edgerton and Logistics Park Kansas City are where the newer dry van and drayage jobs are. Wichita aviation work is more specialized and worth pursuing if you have flatbed experience and want to build a niche.

Beef plants in western Kansas run steady reefer driver jobs year round.