Car Hauling vs Fridge

Not alot of steering wheel holder jobs pay 100k a year. Maybe get onto LTL and put some time in.

 

There is an LTL sub forum on this site.

 

see if you can sleep next to reefer unit especialy god forbit older carrier. and night time deliveries. or during produce season you come for a pickup and there are already thousand trucks waiting to be loaded and you get loaded the next day but your appointment is not changed....

 

Hi trucko, I commented on your other post about being overweight with cars. LTL, means, "less than a load", and that means, rather than taking a full load somewhere, you'll make many smaller pickups, and while frustrating, you can make good money doing that, and get around. The downside to that, is anything and everything will go wrong, and you may get delayed at one stop, and then not make it to your next one, and so on. It's all how well you deal with problems. There really is no "easy" trucking, every type has it's up's and down's, although, the least hassle ( and best pay) for me, was a tanker. I don't mean any disrespect at all, but car hauling, is a tough job. I know I would never do it. ( except maybe a 2 or 3 car deal). There are easier ways to make a living trucking (although, your numbers seem a little high, but it's possible) Another job I liked, while boring, was a line haul. You take a loaded wagon to a place, usually, the same place every day (or night) drop and hook, and bring another wagon back, although, I think an OTR job would pay more, if you don't mind being gone. Good luck. Oh, the 1099, I'd get used to. Seems everybody is doing that now.

 

Are you picking up 8 units from 8 different places?

 

I just crossed over to car hauling after 22 years of running hard with reefers and vans..

The money is better in car hauling for sure but the work is much harder.......I personally are working harder but not running harder.....I'd say my last 10 years or so was spent doing LTL long haul...If you want to make money pulling a reefer around that is where you will make it, but its not better than car hauling money....LTL is an entirely different game than just dragging around a trailer doing one pick one drop, but its not for everyone...You are constantly under the gun trying to get to your next stop....You better know how to run, log, budget your time carefully, and be on time...

I could go on and on about LTL long haul but won't........stick with car hauling you'll make better money.

 

Like Tall Mike sez, car hauling has it's advantages. Usually, there's not a big hassle with deliveries, as people usually want their cars, unlike reefer hauling, you pull in with a load, that HAD to be there, they tell you, park along the back fence, we'll come and get you, and they never do. I pulled a lot of reefer ( by the hour, thank goodness) and swore, I'd never do reefer again. Crabby receivers, bogus appts., lumper fees (if any), wrong pallets, temperature of load, 4 trucks ahead of you and only 1 dock door open, you get the idea. Van, dump, or tank are the only things I'll do now. (Except hauling classic cars to auctions, now THAT would be cool)

 

When I first started this new job I kept asking the boss man "when do I have to be there" ?? He was like "whenever you want I guess"..

We did have a customer call and ask if we could be a day early yesterday..It was ServPro and they needed the rig I had on for a job they were on..