Is It Hard To Get An OTR Job?

Got that, you guys need to set up a brokerage, don't waste your time running trucks unless you can do it running a profit, which you can do if you are hauling your own freight. The hard part is finding the driver's if you are using your own trucks. But, you can go out on the open boards or contract with owner operators to move your produce as a broker. Driving a truck should be the furthest thing from your mind.

 

I'm not an owner-operator, so can't help you with info on operating those 4 trucks. @Justrucking2 and some others can advise.
I'm not Chinese, but my wife is and I met her in Beijing; we own a home there.

 

Septic tank odor; in China that comes from "night soil" which is used for fertilizer. That stuff grows carrots as big as an ear of corn.
"Night soil is a euphemism for human feces collected from cesspools, privies, pail closets, pit latrines, privy middens, etc. It was removed from the immediate area, usually at night, by workers employed in this trade. Sometimes it could be transported out of towns and sold on as a fertilizer.
Another definition is "untreated excreta transported without water (e.g. via containers or buckets)". The term "night soil" is largely an archaic word, used in historical contexts. The modern term is "fecal sludge"; fecal sludge management is an ongoing challenge, particularly in developing countries.
Night soil was produced as a result of a sanitation system in areas without sewer systems or septic tanks. In this system of waste management, the human feces are collected without dilution with water."

 

I know the smell well, used to be a surgical nurse until I screwed up and found myself behind the wheel of a truck. Nothing like disecting a bowel at 0700...

 

I was goofing off in Beijing. Years ago in the Navy, Hong Kong was my favorite port.

 

The website is fine. Quit trying to reinvent the wheel.

 

I am not worried about a minor 40 dollar ticket for running a red light like i got back in the 80's that's not criminal where I am from. It's the definition of a disobeying a traffic control device.

You kept using the word criminal, I must wonder if you have felonies. Im not too concerned about most of those excepting that which relates to major theft or even worse reselling for gain someone else's stuff. (Cargo etc) In time anyone can drive a semi OTR.

Now. A reefer can and will function as dry van with the unit off with some weight tare penalty, it's not difficult to deliver oranges up the east coast from Fort Lauradale and reload with Dutch Brooms in Lancaster going to say Indiana. Im just making this up but it's been done, the oranges and so on...

Your school will teach you just enough to pass the CDL test. Your REAL education begins with your first hire. The enormity of what you don't yet know will sink in during that time however long you managed not to do any damage, get tickets or kill people with a 40 ton semi. Being from CT you probably are well aware of what happens to a major highway such as the Q bridge when someone screws the pooch royally during rush. (A side question, have you all replaced that #### thing yet? lol...)

anyhow.

You do have to write down everything you did 7 to 10 years back. Even if you were sitting home tending to a sick relative as a care giver for no money. The reason for this covering of employment gaps is because of Homeland. They did not exist until about 6 weeks after 9-11 came along. Before that it was just a work history and a check with the DOJ among other things.

The Tomatoes. If you like them, you will find in season on the west coast, mountains of them is moved regionally. I don't remember too many tomatoes going east in anything other than jars I suppose. Mexico is a source of our Tomatoes as well. But that is one area I did not haul. (Been mexico, but not for tomato. It's either cow hide in steel or tin out or something else entirely such as mexican produce that is very particular to that country going to say south Denver small grocery stores COD)

If you are a good driver over time you will have the feeling of running National. But in the beginning your chain will be pretty small usually 700 to 1100 miles or so to see how you are. Most people cannot get to the doctors appt across town in 10 minutes after appt that one hour. We are supposed to run a Nation 3000 miles and be there 10 minutes early, Storms and all plus the ELD and everything else.

Good luck