Need some carreer advice...

You will go through much of the same in carhaul for less pay. With a dually and a wedge anyway. Be better off getting hired on by a big outfit and make 1800 or more per week to drive their equipment.

 

You are better off where you are at or getting in with a large car carrier outfit running stingers when you get enough driving experience. Your numbers are way off in terms of actual expenses for running your p/u truck.
That said, there are literally hundreds of people asking the same questions you did in these pages in this very section of car haul. All the answers are already written. The only thing missing is when each of the possible posters failed & went out of business. Rarely does someone post that info.

Well over 3/4's of the contacts I have known or made in this business since 2008, whether they are carriers, brokers, dealership mgmt/employees etc have all either changed jobs(i.e. single o/o to major carrier) or moved out of the industry. Shouldn't that tell you something?

 

In good times those loads aren't too hard to find but now? Good luck finding that in one direction much less back to where you started. People are going out of business left and right now.

 

My first driving job was doing exactly what you're doing now. But for dr. Pepper. Just fyi, some companies don't count local driving as experience. So if you go otr, you will be paid as a newb.

 

Where do you live? There may be opportunities in your area.

 

Your best bet is to stick it out as a Company Driver. Drive someone's else's requirement and carefully save your cash until you can dive in feet first and paid off day one, lock stock and barrel. Remember, debt is a enemy. It is like a infestation of insects that eat away at your carefully stored future inside the pantry that you depend on for your plans you might have carefully laid to gain the freedom you seek.

Some of your post indicated to me that you are probably in a large city, possibly even DC. Some Cities around the USA are so bad, so aggressive and truly horrifying when it comes to lack of emphathy and corruption in the halls of power only held by a select few with authority while tens of thousands of others run about trying to gain a positon in life by hook and crook over the bodies of the nice people who should not have gotten involved in some of the cities in our Country like DC.

I bypassed DC wherever I could on US 15, or rarely US 301. I cannot pass through the Shenandoah and into the Appalachians without feeling the force of our Nation's History dating back to the 1620's or so before we were America. And even further back to those Europeans fleeing religious persecution from the 1500's onwards towards America.

I live quietly in the deep south, in a free state. Arkansas you run in me. My adopted forever home, where the roof works well enough in good weather and leaks a little bit in the rain but too stormy to go up and fix today, wait a while to tomorrow.