What would you do???

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by tramm01, Feb 16, 2019.

  1. tramm01

    tramm01 Road Train Member

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    Big deep breath and here it is:
    I am a week away from finishing the gig I have been on for about a year— Rabbi has blessed the plant and State/Feds have signed off— been a long, hard road. Delivering young son to the USAF at the end of the month — a longer, harder road. Truck Boss at the plant we just finished offered a truck ( used, but in excellent shape) for OTR milk hauling @ $300+/day. Local regional 100 truck outfit flatbed/dry van that I have run for in the past offered up .52 CPM @ around 2500 m/w - FM is a douche and we have history, but the owner is a stand up individual that I respect. Both have similar benefits — insurance doesn’t matter cause the wife is on State payroll and no one can come close to the state rate. I like to work and don’t handle BS real well. Don’t have any debt, have a few bucks saved and have been considering my own numbers, but don’t have a wealth of experience. One way or the other, I am going to pull the trigger on going trucking. Let me have it — What would you do??
     
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  3. x1Heavy

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    It's going to be milk hauling without hesitation.

    Just one thought, you did not give your location, but the Milk Industry has been absolutely decimated by Canadian Tariff that makes a gallon of US Milk a sin to buy. So everyone up there buys Canadian milk. Leaving the American Milk Farms to go out of business. 1400 so far have.

    OTR and milk are telling me that you have a collecting point that has been filled up by some really big time local day cab people and now are in need to run that milk to the dairy really fast and short on time. Motivating. You have to get it moving that way. No ifs buts, maybes and no delays. No gaming no TV no nothing. Start driving. I hope that whoever is on the wheel in it is going to do well. 300 a day flat makes 2100 every 7 salary flat. I don't know if you run hard enough to burn out your 70 or not, but it will take me 7 days to go through all of them if I can help it. I like my 300 a day filling a tanker in 30 minutes and then driving the rest of the week.
     
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  4. tramm01

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    South Central Idaho — Didn’t know poop about this, but have been eyeing it since starting the job — there is a market!! My concern is the boring factor — for the right money, I could probably get past that.
     
  5. x1Heavy

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    Well, there is a can. Hook hose until you hear big slurp. Or until Can is full. And then a big slurp. Something along those lines... I forget.

    //TEASING... Usually had a truck cat for that purpose. Ears come up on it when it's ALMOST time to get over there and take a few slurps. (I cannot imagine the laws it must have broken in these day and age... but for me it was a very good early warning that yes dummy you milk is all gone. You go ti all in there yet? (Am deaf) Farmer knows if I am asleep he either deploys farm girl or slaps me Daddy style. That usually fixes up the case of the slows.
     
  6. Rideandrepair

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    $300 a day, home at night, all the free milk you want, throw in some Oreos, I’m good to go. Problem for Me would be early start time.My first Driving Job was 3 am till noon @ 17 yrs old. It was nice to be done early,I couldn’t get used to the schedule, to this day I Usually sleep those same hours when possible. But for an early bird it’s ideal. OTR will always be there if Milk Job doesn’t work out. Even if OTR eventually, meanwhile ease into Trucking with Milk run, just an idea with all the changes, keeping home life on a steady keel meanwhile.
     
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  7. tramm01

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    The milk job is OTR — out 5-7 home for reset + a day or 2. My arithmetic is showing that the milk job pays a little more than flat bedding, but not much after you consider extras. O/O is way my gut says, my brain says I don’t have the skill right now to offset the risk. I’ll go out to the desert for a few days and shoot coyotes, get my mind right and decide.
     
  8. Rideandrepair

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    So O/O or company? Buying milk Truck? Leasing on Flat bedding? What’s the plan what kind of Truck? I’m sure you’ll figure it out, I’m confused at this point. I need to go shoot some coyotes too. Lol
     
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  9. tramm01

    tramm01 Road Train Member

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    Reread my post and it is pretty convoluted. There are 2 offers on the table:
    1) OTR milk hauling @ 300+/day — out 5-7 home for reset + a day or 2.
    2) Go back to the outfit I ran for in the past ( it’s a flat bed/ dry van outfit) running flat bed @ .52 CPM + fuel/safety bonus, tarp pay.. etc
    3) O/O is my romantic idea but doesn’t make good business sense right because of the steep learning curve — I have been paying attention to quite a few of the posts on here.
     
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  10. dngrous_dime

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    Personally, I would go with the milk. Knowing what you're doing each week, less hands-on labor, little less risk involved, and you aren't guaranteed to work for a douche.
     
  11. Ridgeline

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    Milk if I had to choose.
     
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