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Don listen to some of these company pushovers. Stand up for yourself and say something. If you get fired, big deal. It's not like they can take your license with your name on it. So that truck didn't fit. Go find a better one.

 

Buy Your own truck, get your own authority, do you own dispatch and you can go when you want to go, where you want to go, stay home when you want to and make more money and have more headaches than when driving for a company or leasing to a company. I have been doing this for three years. Tonight I am in Panama City Beach Fl visiting.

 

I think what she means is her perception of urban east coast crime and danger. Big strong grown men truckers have been murdered from the deep south to Cali to the REST AREA just north of KC on I 29.

It's ALL potentially dangerous. Cautious trepidation is warranted. Paranoia isn't.

 

I don't like the east coast because of the traffic, higher fuel costs, well, higher everything costs, tolls, mountains wearing on your equipment and your nerves, and the rates to me just are not worth all that. Like I said to someone talking about california, are they paying $4-$5 a mile? No? Then why go? We never cross either mountain range and make money just fine.

 

your in Iowa, try one of the meat haulers or intermodal carriers. Meat haulers run Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas to the W. coast.

 

Hopper bottoms are another option . Not much corn or wheat goes to the East Coast .

 

Mountains. Apparently you've not driven the 11 west.
Gees even Iowa has hills. You really think avoiding the east coast saves you?

Come do LA during rush hour. Of yeah, that's 3pm-8pm. C'mon. It's better, right?

 

I been everywhere cept WA and OR, try again. I don't see how comparing Iowa hills to any mountain makes sense at all, and I know for a fact that not running the coasts saves and makes me money.

 

Find an owner opp. to work for. thats about the only way you can have the perks of being an owner opp. without actually owning the truck. Talk to local people in your hometown maybe you will get lucky and find someone that would like to put a second truck on the road.. good luck!!