CDL Jobs in Houston, TX

The port and the plants

Port Houston's container terminals at Barbours Cut and Bayport feed a drayage market that runs all day, every day, while the petrochemical plants lining the Ship Channel load tanker and hazmat freight bound for the whole continent. Drivers with both endorsements are the scarcest resource in this metro, and the pay shows it.

Energy sets Houston's rhythm. When drilling picks up, oilfield equipment moves on flatbeds out of the northwest side, and when it slows, the chemical lanes barely notice. Few metros give a driver this many distinct markets to move between.

Truck driving jobs in Houston right now

The spread is wide: port drayage with daily home time, local delivery across a metro of seven million people, dedicated accounts serving grocery and retail, and OTR fleets that use Houston as a home base for Gulf Coast and national lanes. Fuel hauling to the city's sprawl of stations is steady, endorsed, hourly work.

Tell us your endorsements and how you want to run, and Houston companies with open seats contact you. One form, free, and it covers the rest of Texas too.

What Houston drivers should know

Beltway 8 and the Grand Parkway are how working drivers survive the metro; I-45 and the inner loops are where schedules go to die at rush hour. Flooding is a real operational factor, and the carriers that handle it well tell you their plan without being asked. Summer heat makes early morning starts the norm on physical work.