Why is it so hard to make money as a independent?

that's the point he was making, its not all about doing what you want , you got a business to run also. the business comes first. you can do what you want sometimes but the business takes priority , you go and do what it takes to keep it going.


that's the mistake many make, they do it so they can do what they want, they soon find doing what you want without regard to anything else is the quick way to being broke.


ask most kids and they will also say they want to do what they want to do , whenever they feel like it.

 

But on the same note you can make a living not going to the east coast...Skateboardman is absolutely right. Trucking is hard enough without limiting yourself.

 

I agree with every thing, but I still take a load to Florida sometimes not because it pays good but so I can hang out on the beach for a few days...

 

It's not hard. You just have to commit 100% to the truck. That's all. Your life is over as you know it. Little Johnnys baseball games and little sallys recital is no longer a cncern of yours. The truck is. If your family and you are willing to accept that. Then you can make good money out here. Helps to live in a good freight lane as well.

 

That's the most asinine thing I've read all day. So, you have to become a trucking hermit to be an owner operator?
Let's see, I'm home all the time, I never miss something important to my daughter (I just made sure I was home for her Halloween parade at school) or my wife, I live in Central Florida (one of the worst markets) and I do very well. My business plan fits my market, and that is the key to success. I have friends that never travel out of FL and still make an OK living. One in particular missed his first daughter growing up because he was out trucking, and vowed not to do that with his second. The second is now in high school. There's a poster on here that rarely ventures over 200 miles from his location in CT that does very well. The guy I park next to goes from Orlando to NYC and back every week with a dry van. He ends up averaging $2 p/m and he typically leaves on Monday and is home Friday. The folks that think they have to be a trucking hermit are the ones that either lack a business plan, don't know their market, or choose to be that way.

 

Thank you 40. It is hard for drivers to make it but not business people.

 

Come on now BBB run harder not smarter!

 

you don't know how true that is. I hear way too many people say they want to buy a truck to mace more money. But have no idea how more money will happen.

 

i woulda sold the wife and kept the truck.

kidding, kidding (maybe)

 

yep, you nailed it.