Any Day Cab Owner Operators?

Based where you are: you could easily make it as a day can OO- with a healthy amount of business sense.
However if you only take loads off of boards, no. You need customer relationships up here to be successful.
Good ol boy network is strong around New England.

 

I assume the problem with the local NE load-board freight is that it's cheap? Too cheap to be useful for keeping a guy busy when my regular customers aren't filling my schedule? Or just too cheap to be worth building a whole business off of?

 

Too cheap to build a business off of mostly. For the frequency of good paying loads, and where they pickup and go: you wouldn't make it waiting around for good stuff.
So you build a fairly regular customer base that you service and if you have availability when/if you see a good paying broker load pop up you book it as extra $$

 

The vast majority of owner operators use sleepers and for most operations a sleeper may work better. I use a day cab because for me a day cab works better. Even most carhaul owner ops think a sleeper is better, but I don't want to sleep in the truck. In my case the extra car, even just one load a week pays the hotels all week. I think for short haul flatbed hauling coils a light day cab could be advantageous getting certain loads. Just my opinion.

 

Looks awful tall to me.

 

Got to make the money driver! I just duck when I go under an overpass. Here is the finished product.

 

Oh. ok. Looks better. Thanks.

 

When running local don't look so much at the rate per mile but dollars per hour. Example A flat rate of 350 going from A to B can be a good deal if you can do it in 3 hours. It it takes you 6..... you'll go broke quick.
I've been running day cab since 06

 

Does not having the sleeper and having to plan ahead for hotels (and availability of hotel parking for trucks) make it harder to use your full HOS or is it not a big deal? Have you run a sleeper at other times in your career?

 

jbatmick, thats what i do i only deal with shippers.