why is so hard to make decent money as an owner operator in south fl?

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  1. javier3000

    javier3000 Bobtail Member

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    i moved to south fl last november,i used to live in nj,i leave my daycab working there and start searching for a job down here but looks like having someone working for me over there it is better than i driving locally here i can not find a company that i can make a decent owner operator check
     
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  3. Rawze

    Rawze Medium Load Member

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    too many immigrants ppl willing to work for peanuts. no disrespect to innimgrants, I commend them for leaving such a f@#$ up country.
     
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  4. 15 over

    15 over Light Load Member

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    A big thing is there is very little industry in south Florida. It is a tourist state, with the only real industry is tourism and construction. if you are not associated with either, you will have a hard time. As stated above there are a lot of people hauling containers out of the ports, but there is very little money in in that because the people doing it are willing to work for almost nothing. There used to be a little money with a dump trailer down there hauling rock and sand, but since the economy in that part of the world is still not booming, the dump trailers are very slow. If you pull a refer, there is some produce and citrus money to be made. But you almost have to know someone to get in. There is a little flatbed money to be made hauling lumber and building materials. I know anytime I go south of I-10 in Florida it is hard to find anything to get back out of there. There are to many drivers that wind up in south Florida that can't find anything to get back out, and will take some ridiculous cheap freight just to head north. That part of the world has been tough for years.
     
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  5. old time

    old time Medium Load Member

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    Wait a while, they'll turn this into one too
     
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  6. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    the speaking clear language thing is common throughout the country.

    in florida i guess you ned to speak jamaican or peurto rican.

    it's spanish pretty much everywhere else. minus a couple of cowboy states that are still around.
     
  7. SuperDispatch

    SuperDispatch Bobtail Member

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    I think its been tough all around the last year or so. The rates seem to keep going down.
     
  8. javier3000

    javier3000 Bobtail Member

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    i am an immigrant came 7 years ago but i rather leave under the coconut tree than working here so hard for peanuts lol i dont move my truck if im not going to make money and everybody out there should do the same its better to work for a company at this rates its ridiculous 500 from miami to jacksonville power only they said a flat be with another one on top who has the face to offer that and who does that for that money if i found uuuuu
     
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  9. Richter

    Richter Road Train Member

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    Florida needs a lot but doesnt produce a lot. So, you have tons of trucks coming in with no loads out and thus the outgoing rates suck. Simple supply and demand. In most areas surrounding states may have loads, but in south florida, your kinda stuck in florida.
     
  10. landstar8891

    landstar8891 Road Train Member

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    Why is it that only the ''immigrants'' no that America's Trucking is ripping people off..!!!!...Good Post Friend...I hear so many ''american'' drivers blaming the immigrants for ''cheap labor''..In reality,it is the DUMBED DOWN AMERICAN hauling this crap for CHEAP....I observe this on the east coast and do alot of listening.
    It amazes me how well educated the immigrants are to whats going on in the ''business'' of trucking...American truckers seemed to be dumbed down in many areas of the trucking business.In a nut shell i hear more ''immigrants'' saying NO TO CHEAP FRIEGHT'' than an American Dumbed down trucker...IMO...
     
  11. Steinbrenner

    Steinbrenner Light Load Member

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    Thank God my trucks are paid for and honestly they're not my main income source so have I the luxury to tell a cheap broker to stick those dirt cheap loads up his butt.
    I constantly remind them that slavery in America was abolished many moons ago...:biggrin_25511:
     
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