Deal or no deal

First a bit of background. I own a 2015 cascadia owe nothing on it. I parked it 5 months ago with thoughts of selling it and being done driving. Everything I have is paid off ( house, cars, properties). Now my question. My neighbor has a manufacturing business his family has had for around 20 yrs. He approached me with a prospect. He needs someone to drive his trailer 200 miles to a location drop and grab his empty bring back to his plant here and repeat. This happens 5 days a week. All I would be responsible for is fuel and maintenance he pays lic insurance everything else. He will pay me $3.00 a mile. Would you take this, he came to me because the driver that is doing this now has been having problems and isn't reliable anymore. So would this be a deal or no deal for you thanks

 

"He needs someone to drive his trailer 200 miles to a location drop and grab his empty bring back to his plant here and repeat." That would be 400 miles a day and $1200.00. Yeah I can run numbers was just bouncing this idea off you guys. I made my money from running my construction co. and from selling said company. I only got into trucking after I found out I got bored not working. Then found out living in a truck wasn't for me after being on the road for 3 yrs.

 

Good points. That is what is holding me up on this. I am going to lunch with him today. "if you want to take any time off you will have to arrange to have the run covered. Vacation, an extra Friday, or whatever". I'll bring up that question right there. Thanks good point

 

Lunch went quite well. He said no problem taking time off with notice, he has a few different people that will haul for him all he wants is a couple weeks to set it up. Guess I'm driving again. I knew I couldn't get away. It is a sweet deal after all.