Finally got my own truck

If it's too good to be true....Yeah immediately I suspected something funny.

I would go to mid Florida if they wanted to pay $3-$4/mi. There's a bunch sitting there for FL.

I got to make it home to MI Monday for the Webasto heater to be installed. So I can't go too far out west.

 

First week was good. I went into MD for $4/mi and del that night. I suggested Florida after that.

I've been out for 15 full work days now. I've grossed $13,000 in that time in exactly 7,000 miles empty and loaded. So it hasn't been bad. I started with 1,975 on the odometer after I picked up the trailer and now I'm at 8,975. Of course, I don't get the full amount as my boss takes a certain ℅, but it's a good deal.

Being that I have a lot of overhead, having a new truck and therefore a big payment, it's not like I can just take short hauls every day in the Midwest for $900 on 400 miles. I could do that but I'd make a lot less profit than I've made. I think I've profited like $5400 including $100 for trailer pickup and $100 for passing a lvl3 I got pulled over in SD last week.

But the rest of this week gonna be crappy and then next week I'll make nothing because I'm taking the week off. Then I'll go back out for 10 weeks. I'm not gonna be able to do very well unless I start learning to find my own freight. Boss is willing to give me free reign to do that as long as I follow his rules, which are more than acceptable. Bottom line, don't book while driving, no setting up w a broker we aren't set up with, and always check credit score and make sure they are factorable.

Nobody is going to know my clock and what I need better with whatever time I have available on my clock and what I can do and can't do better than me, doesn't matter how good or bad a load finder is. I'm gonna have to end up doing that myself most of the time in order to find out what's best for my personal operation.

This app said there was no parking here at this Pilot, but there's always a parking spot. It's always the one that 99℅ of drivers won't even try to get into, but it helps that I used to be a pretty darn good yard switcher

 

And I guess I thought on the DAT map that anything dark red was good to go to. I suggested also to go to west SD. From NE.

I ended up getting $3300 from Western SD to here in GA. Maybe I got lucky? Lol.