New O/O, local freight ideas

Just check the load boards in the 12 months your waiting to get a truck and whichever has more loads, or more profitable ones, go with that. Could also rent a trailer and switch as the market changes.

 

Dry van usually slows down after the holidays. But reefers good all year round from what I hear.

 

Find a customer that needs transportation services and buy the equipment said customer needs.

 

Local in MN? Do grain in the fall/winter and end/side dump in spring/summer. When construction starts slowing, you grab the hopper and haul corn to the ethanol plants. When the corn is done you grab soybeans. When that's done, take a month off and get the dump ready for spring.

Or just haul midwest regional reefer. Pays more and the freight is consistent.

 

Reefer pays decent all year, you just have to deal with reefer receivers….

At some point I’ll be pulling my bucket in the late spring/summer/fall, then getting even lazier then I am now with my flat bed for the winter just to cover expenses, and then mulch/bagged stone season in the spring before I go back under the dump,

i don’t mind sleeping in the truck, but I am not going to live in the truck.

 

Two different trucking lifestyles... I prefer sleeping as well, that's why I don't have a CB, microwave, apu, fridge, tv, etc...

 

I’ve been running local tanker delivering fuel to gas stations for 4 years (6mo o/o) and it does well. Low fuel costs, 6000-12000/wk gross, home every night.

 

Hello. You do it in which state? I’m from Texas and planning to switch to the tanker. Any advice to someone who wants to become an owned operator?

 

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