Can I make a living with this haul?

Truckstop.com is what I use most. I have all of them though.

 

Usually when you are doing something like that you get a per day rate, or a per load rate. I see trucks going into Stella Jones, or koppers in NLR, Hope has a tie yard, there's brick out of Clarksville, steel out of Fort smith, lots of lumber loads ,

 

I started with zero experience in June. You won't have any issues.

 

At 3.54 loaded miles and dead head back. You're really only making 1.76 all miles. That's barely going to cover operating costs. Unless you can find something else running back. To keep from all the empty miles.

 

If you can get a steady back haul gig. That can line up. I'd personally stick with that.

So lumber one way and [enter freight here] on the way back.

 

Getting set up with multiple brokers gives you many more options. I've pulled for 20 different brokers so far in less than 3 months

@Wasted Thyme mentioned one commodity out, one back. That's basically what the guys I mentioned are doing. Using 3 or 4 different brokers, but hauling basically the same loads every day, depending on which broker has one at the time

 

One thing would be the HOS to worry about, running out of time trying to do too much.