Flatbed for hire

You need to do what any start up does, knock on doors until your knuckles bleed. Then keep knocking.

 

But thats not the easy way.

 

I must have missed the class the day they taught that owning a business and making money at it was easy.

 

Thats because they didn't have the internet back then. Now they teach you to use google and go on forums and see if anyone will give up valuable information.

 

Im sure all of our o/o's on here will give their best customers contact info to this fella.

 

And according to that girl in the TV commercial, everything on the internet is true, as she walks off with her "French model" date.

 

Senior staff is getting tired of people trashing threads when people ask for help or advice, if you have nothing to contribute in a positive manner you need to move on.

 

The hard cold fact is sales will find freight, as very few, if any, will give up any kind of decent contacts. That is the major problem with going on your own. If you cannot do sales, as I cannot, you will fail, as I did many years ago.
It is easy, too dang easy IMO, to get your own authority and very difficult to make it work. You cannot rely on others to solve your own problems, as this is business and one never helps their competition take revenue from their own pocket.
Without some type of sales, you have no freight. Without freight, you have no revenue. You either have to do as I described earlier, and pound on doors, being prepared to hear the word no, more times than you ever thought you could stand to hear that, or get a sales force.
Am I cynical, when it comes to posts like this? Yes, I am, because I have lived it and watched thousands of others go through the same thing, with few surviving.
You don't need advice from truckers, as few will give you any valid advice. You need advice from sales people and they don't necessarily need to be in the trucking business, as sales is sales. A good sales person can sell toilet paper to a diarhea clinic one day and ice to Eskimos the next.