O/O Intermodal work in Florida?

All of Florida is a bad place for truckers. My mother use to live in Port Orange, right next to Daytona. There are ten million retired truckers living in Florida running their trucks into the ground until they break down for good then their done trucking. That's why rates going into Florida suck and rates coming out of Florida suck. It's because there are so many retired truckers living down there and willing to take a cheap load out then come back home cheap.

I got to know many of them while visiting my mom and going to the Eagles club at night with my Uncle. Lots of them move trailers or containers around and get paid under the table.

 

Nice. Bottom of the barrel is OTR? Good luck to you.

 

It is the bottom of the barrel if it wasn't so many people wouldn't be constantly asking about local driving jobs. That and companies wouldn't be scrambling selling off equipment because they can't replace truck drivers leaving the work force...the average age of a truck driver is 48...and a lot of people who do get a CDL end up quitting being a truck driver permanently due to their bad experiences being over the road.

 

Right so far, Cody. Does it occor to you that there success stories? Why, some of them are even available right here. Or, that perhaps the things you list are surely the hard parts, and we hear more of that here? $200 Billion annual revenue isn't in trouble, just dealing with some issues. BOB is drivers lowballing freight just to get a check, or driving for a mega at $.22/mile. Or guys willing to work hourly for $30K/yr. OTR is hard,but BTW across the board new business fails are about 90% in 18 months. I respect those people, because they tried, didn't just listen to the fearmongers.

 

I did OTR for 17 months and it was one of the worst experiences I ever had. OTR pays less then local jobs because to be blunt it requires less skill and that's where most newbies go to which drives down the income potential of OTR drivers. We had one driver on here bragging about driving 13,000 miles a month and the guy is only going to make about $60,000.00 this year and is never home. I'm going to make about 60k this year and I'm home every night and off two days a week. Sorry but OTR is the nightmare people make it out to be...it's the reason why those of us that did it before and now have local jobs we enjoy will never go back to it. Hell I would get out of trucking all together vs being gone for a month if not months on end before coming home. It's not a life.

Now with that said let's not derail this topic any further.

 

Hi massaro did you find out of any good o/op intermodal companys in florida im lookin to move there from boston in aug let me know please ty

 

Ive been moving containers for about 28 months. It is a seasonal job, meaning there are slow times throughout the year. Best advice I can give you is talk to other drivers from various companies. You can catch them at fueling islands by the ports or railyards. If you want to get started in the o/o world without buying a truck, call a company that has drivers that own multiple trucks. You drive their truck but are a 1099 tax form using driver.

 

Anybody have an answer to the original question?

 

List of companies in FL that do rail work :

http://www.loadmatch.com/directory/drayage.cfm?category=trucker&state_code=FL

 

"Pay well" is relative to the individual. You need to make a list of what is important to you (taking time off, parking, whatever). Then call all the different trucking companies and ask what you feel are the important questions. As for income...work 10hr days, 5 days a week, you should get about $60,000 year. That number is a general guess. There are soooooooo many variants in this business.