Do you OTR reefer guys really make a good living?

Yea and people slave a month in want fries with that to make maybe half that.

 

Steve what part of northern cali are u ?
im planning to buy my truck and reefer and only doing cali

 

I'm in Sonoma County just north of the Bay area, but I bought my truck and trailer in Phoenix. It's slim pickins for new equipment out here.

 

9 month wait at Freightliner for a new Cascadia.

 

so your loading up within a 120 mile radius from sonoma county uh ?

 

The wait times in the reefer game are cruel but not unusual.

There's a place in San Antonio called H.E.B.. Those people should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.

 

Usually yes. But there is a lot within that radius.

Food distribution centers are notorious for using very slow and expensive lumpers to unload trailers. They also want deliveries in the middle of the night. Growers can make trucks wait for 10 hours or more as crops are picked and chilled before loading into reefers. Company drivers typically do the food centers and O/O's do the fresh produce loads. Some get paid detention, many don't.

 

It's the same for KW and PB. Everybody is lagging right now which is why I ended up getting a pre-ordered KW truck from a dealer. It wasn't exactly what I would have spec'd myself, but it's close enough, and I got it in 3 months.