8 months exp trying to go o/o

Just do 4 more months and then go to Landstar, and you'll live happily ever after.

 

22yrs old? How much is your insurance

 

Insurance will kill you being so young with under a year of experience. I know when I was getting quotes I'd change my experience to a year and the rates would go from $6kish to $10-12k. So maybe stick it out for a few more months and get your year in at least.

 

Any profit you make will go directly to insurance company

 

The way the market is looking right now I think you would be way money ahead getting hired onto a good company that pays well.

Save some money for another year working company and than take another look at the market.

Usually I am all for being independent and self sufficient, but I think in today's market with you paying a large lease payment along with high insurance for your age would be a huge risk right now.

 

Danny Herman Trucking - headquartered in Mountain City,TN
Requirements

• Own a 2007 or newer tandem axel tractor.
• Comply with DHT safety standards.
• Maintain collision and Worker's Compensation coverage.
• Maintain bobtail liability insurance.
• Cover deductible amount on liability and cargo policies.
• Fuel taxes (reported and paid by DHT and deducted from settlement.)
• 21 Years of age.
• 3 Months or 50,000 miles OTR Experience minimum.
• Mountain, snow, and ice experience.
• Possess a Commercial Driver's License / Class A
• No DUI/DWI convictions in the last 5 years, never in a commercial vehicle.

 

A&R Logistics owner-operator REQUIREMENTS

• Have valid Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) from their state of residence
• Have 6 months of recent, verifiable, over-the-road tractor/trailer experience with a regulated carrier
• Must successfully pass a minimum 6-month DOT physical, pre-placement drug screen and a company-required conditional offer of employment evaluation test (COEET)
• Supply a full Motor Vehicle Record, DAC and PSP
• Have no DUI/DWI, impaired-driving or implied-consent convictions within the past 3 years

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS:

• Truck Weight – Under 19K lbs. (scaled tractor w/ fuel)
• Truck Age – No older than 6 years (exceptions are considered by Terminal Manager)
• Truck must pass D.O.T. Inspection

 

Check Associated Grocer Warehouse in Goodlettsville. When I worked there as a company driver & many of my friends there were 0/0's there. It's all customer unload & driver just counts the pallets the customer pulls off. The customer signs for "X" number of pallets only. I did the long haul stuff such as orange juice loads out of Florida or canned goods out of California, etc. Maybe haul butter out of Smyrna to Florida or Texas then a backhaul back to Goodlettsville.
All this may have changed, but worth checking in to.
Strangest load I hauled there was newsprint out of Donnely Printing in Franklin,KY to Bufflao,NY then apple flavored salt blocks from upstate NY to Alabama. Those salt blocks are used to bait deer, which is illegal.

 

Trailer Transit Inc.
Hub Group Trucking - Nashville
Comtrak - Nashville