I'll give you a hot tip for freight. Get yourself a dry bulk pneumatic trailer, and pull from Maine to Honolulu. 80,000# loads of fairy dust for Santa Claus, pays $1/mile, but that's a lot of miles!!!
~HELP~ New O-O What Tractor to Buy PRE-1999???? ~HELP~
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Good qustion about insurance. I will be starting work for paving company in march drivong a dump truck with a flatbed trailer. 22 wheel total. He will have to get insurance for me i presume. NH is only 1 of 2 states u dont need car insurance but i doubt this is the same for trucks plus he has new trucks so i bet they are insured. Hopefully me being covered recently will make it a bit less risky for a company to switch me over to them to cover me for going OTR. Ill call a couple insurance companies to get estimations thanks for good advice. Any companies you recommend. I use USAA (Great insurance company! Get a check some years for left over money from there insurance $ that was not used. If you are family is military you can get into it. My parents use usaa so i can. My dad can cause my grandparents are navy and i can cauae my dad is a member. Hypothetically my kids could now join too!) for car but dono if they do trucks or commercial insurance.
As far as logbooks i dont plan on running extra hours becauae i have tons of work i can do at truck stops. BUT if i ever hire a driver i want any competitive advantage i can get to find a driver. When i went to trucking school MANY instructors talked about how they use to use paper log books to work more hours (i think this is why they mandated ELB in first place.). If a driver wants to find a company where he can work extra hours i can offer that to a driver with an older truck. Works for the driver to make more money per day and works for me cAuse my truck is rolling more than otherwise. I personally dont want to drive more than ELB allows but if i hire another drive i wont ask nor care how mang hours they work as long as they are happy ans my trucks moving. Also 90s trucks are good machines so might as well
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Is rust an issue on tractors??? Worth going down south to buy?? Im in new england and start paving in march. Starting at 22 an hour and get benifitS. Not bad i suppose -
If I was you I would definitely go with a Kenworth or a peterbilt.
There's no way in hell I would ever consider an international.
Although the old Macs were pretty tough trucks they weren't exactly comfortable and the new ones probably aren't much better than a modern international.
Freightliner, I don't even know what to say.
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