After a lot of searching and a lot of testing and a lot of failing, I finally got docker to move to the location I wanted it in without it reverting back with the next update

To do this, create or edit the file at /etc/docker/daemon.json and assign the following object property to it.

{
    "graph": "/path/to/directory"
}

Then restart the daemon. So simple but so many posts with methods that did not work. Probably from previous versions of Docker. This works for Docker version 18.06.1.