Finally got my own truck

It's a 2017 Dodge Ram 1500

 

Buy a camera and share on YouTube. Sure a lot of people would be interested to follow along

 

Thanks and I agree. My point was more to the fact of defending your position of a brand new truck. I spent almost brand new truck money last year and will again this year. Hopefully the next 3 years will be less? You will have a great few years after your truck is paid off if you continue to use it or trade it in on a new one with your residual. $2400 a month is steep but i spent that on old equipment and have $0 value left.
@WonderBoy you are braver than I was when I started and I wanted to minimize my risk. You seem to understand the risk but we're confident you would succeed. A great trait!

 

About the only way to get a decent rate per mile out of Scranton is do short hops south or west. If you don't mind multi stop loads, shrubbery should be loading in south jersey. Probably 5-10 stops.

 

I was in PA last week. Me too,i hate it. I go there maybe once in 3 months.
I got good load out of chicago,750 miles $2300 10,000lbs. I delivered there on wednesday,day after snow storm and was hoping for something nice to fl,but no,80% of loads went furher east,ny,vt,ma,nj,ct. No thanks.
Took landstar load out of pa to wi. 950 miles $1500.

 

It's the conundrum of finding your own loads. Darned if you do and darned if you don't. For a flatbedder like myself getting a load on a weekend, for pickup or delivery, is pretty much non-existent. Fairly often I will choose do deadhead over the weekend to put myself back "on the board" for oil equipment loads out of OKC. Then I second guess my choice if I sit in OKC on Monday.

My situation is different than yours. You will learn the ropes. The name of the game is maximize revenue each week, while minimizing fuel expenses.

 

I am known for being outspoken and saying things that most people don't wanna say.

I give OP/BoyWanderER 3 months. He will sell his truck and wrap up and sit at home. I mean look at some hard workers we have on this forum like oldman, blair, and doubleyellow. This kid is planning to take 8 weeks off for playing ping-pong, when it happens to be the paying period after a long spell.

Look at the start of this thread and see how 98% of the loads were discarded by this boy for not being good enough. They were alright given the market, but nobody promised you $3 loads just because you have a brand new Vovlvo. That is your problem not the customers. Their freight will go from point A to B in 2005 Cascadia just as fine, driven by a driver with more experience and less attitude.