1st TRAILER TO BUY FOR AN OWNER/OPERATOR

I bought a dry van for my first trailer.


Wished I'd have gotten a reefer. But then again, the company I signed on with was mainly Dry van and open decks.

 

You don't have an idea of who your target customers will be yet? This will answer your question.

 

Nope, this is going to be one of those threads about which one of these trailers will make me the most money. Each and every one can and will leave you as broke as the next. So the question that only you can answer is which one do you want to pull? Money can be made or lost with any of them.

 

What lanes and freight are you going to haul?

 

I'd go with flat or reefer.

By the way, I have a 2012 East BST, all aluminum, 3 nailers, 8 al wheels, good virgin rubber, 2 al boxes, rear strobes, j grooves I'll sell you.

 

maybe go get a refridgerated pneumatic dump flatbed hopper bottom stepdeck strech walking floor dry van belt side dump rgn? how could you go wrong with a trailer like that?

 

I tried one of those once, couldn't get any fuel mileage pulling the dang thing.

 

First time I pulled one took a load of roofing shingles and they froze up tight when the reefer kicked on and spoiled my LTL of strawberries.

 

Not to mention how hard it was to unload that frozen bone meal with a belt that tangled up between the blower and the end gate.