O/O that prefer dry van over reefer

Never done reefer, been in the furniture business almost all my life-it's all I know.
@Dave_in_AZ love to do reefer, I'm sure he can give you a few pointers! lol

 

Sometimes there is but more than not. My friend has done reefer for the past 15 years & he is in the north east. He just said to me the other day that it really is no difference probably better on the dry van considering the responsibility with reefer loads & the waiting to get loaded & unloaded

 

Whichever pays. All about the money for me in what I book out on the reefer or the van any given day. Oddly though I get better rates with the van but it doesn't move near as much as the reefer. It's much easier to get a solid rate with the reefer than it is the van. I like both.

 

If you want to make money in dry van get a hazmat and tanker endorsment.
Dry van loads dont pay as much.

 

Van. Unless your into pain.
Solo just do van. So much less hassle. I made good money.
I think you could make some good money with refer if you ran team coast to coast. Still hassle. I've bumped into some guys that run around the Midwest solo that do well.
I'm good with a van, wouldn't be opposed to a reefer if it paid and the hassle wasn't there, but I've yet to see that. Doing it as O/O too, you better make dang sure you have the (right) money in there for lumpers, cause some of them are insanely expensive, and you have to use the receivers lumpers most of the time.
The wait times at some of the receivers and procedures are just F/U. Interesting to see what happens if we all have to e-log.

 

Not true at all. I never haul haz-mat. It's all about the right time and place, how badly that product is needed, or how many $10,000's of thousands of dollar a minute it costs if a line goes down. If trucks are hard to find even paper rolls can pay extremely well. And right on with tanker endorsement those can be good money makers too.

 

Dry is usually the easiest to get loaded with. Reefer you have to find a niche that your able to work to really see the potential, easier said than done. My dad's torn between a flat or reefer. He'd love to haul produce again but he would be way out of his element considering the last time he did it was back when power steering and AC were optional in trucks

 

This is going to sound smart ### and not trying to be that way but finding loads anywhere in the country isn't the problem with either trailer. Finding good paying loads is the challenge.