Once in a Lifetime Opportunity for me.

That's the best thing I've read all day!!
Thank you sir..

 

If I was gonna pay cash for a truck I would buy a 2001-2004 Freightliner Columbia or Coronado with a detroit engine in it for less than $10k. Then I would put $25k into the truck rebuilding the motor and doing whatever work necessary to make it a good truck. Then I would have a good truck and no truck payment and not a lot of cash spent. To me, that's a better scenario than buying a brand new truck for cash money.

 

My bad, I was thinking Savannah GA.

 

I am talking net under the best of circumstances. On a sad week, where I was being lazy I could go as low as 200-400 net. But, that would only be pulling maybe 2 loads and pre pulling a couple loads working 3 days a week. The brokers don't like you doing that and will most likely cancel your lease. My point being that even though you are an O/O in the cans game they only want slaves. In the cans game they want you to pull 10 hour days 5-6 days a week. In the cans game they want you to sit at the port waiting on cans even if you been there since 5am and it's 3pm. In my opinion you would be better going to an OTR company and finding the two closest big cities and trying to find freight that cross past your house. Example: If you live in Charleston find loads out of South GA that go up west coast and loads from up north that go to Northern FL. That will get you home probably every other day and they don't care if you take a week or two off. Or as someone else put it, sell that truck and put the money in a good mutual fund for a steady return.

 

I'll give it to you raw. There IS money to be made in intermodal. Just depends on what you want to do and the outfit you lease onto. Local guys do anywhere from 1k-2k a week just depends on how quickly the port is moving. Now if you were a road driver you can do anywhere from 1600-3000 a week and even more if you're willing to run to get it. It's no different than anything else, you get out what you put in.