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You've got to sit down with family and set your goals and time tables. You just can't jump in feet first and expect to come out on top. Planning is paramount and sticking to those plans is essential. It takes time and devotion even to get through the gates and if you give up easily then you might want to look somewhere else.

This is the type of job that if you apply yourself for years the rewards start to come your way. If you plan from start to finish with many plan B's and C's along the way you'll find yourself a rewarding career that you might end up going out early with a very comfortable life. No one says you have to stick to the end and you may want to drive or expand beyond your plans. It's having the guidelines that show you the way. Once you do that go and have fun, make tons of money, then retire with no worries.

 

^GasHauler said. make a plan, drive like a pro, network business contacts, you will find your niche.

 

Go to the gas wells! Average pay is $18/hr, you typically work 6-12/hr days and earn overtime; so $18x40= $720 plus $27x32= $864 for a total of $1584/week. Home every night and you might get Sunday off. Different companies pay more or less and you may work more than a 12/hr shift, but it's an option.

 

I will say, Gashauler is 100% correct in that it is quite a process. There is a lot of time and money involved to even get started not to mention qualifying with your MVR and background history.

 

This is the route Ive been planing for a year now. Almost done with school; another week or 1/2 and I'm done.

 

I assume, you mean lease purchase, which I will discuss later. Being an owner operator with your own authority, with 3 years industry knowledge is best. Second choice, being an owner/op with your own truck that you buy on your own, leased on to a company do well also with experience. Now lease purchase owner operators usually fail. The set up favors the carrier. you pay all the expense of the Truck and it's operations, while the risk of the truck breaking down is on you. Do you know how expensive an engine is? The payments don't stop while truck waits for an opening at the dealer service bay. The problem is not the lease itself, but the compensation at these Mega carriers $.84 to $1.05 a mile is a joke. Go company and listen to the old timers at the iron Skillet talk. I actually do Lease purchase and do well, but I take loads $2.80 a mile eastbound and $1.19 a mile westbound. REMEMBER THIS IF ANYTHING. ANYTHING LESS THAN $1.50 A MILE IS ALMOST A GUARANTEED FAILURE. Good luck.

Yes there are variables. Flatbed is supposed to make more than a box. However, I make more in a reefer at my company now than a flatbed at my last company. The last company was skimming off the top of the percentage loads. My suggestion is go flatbed at maverick to start. Heavy haul specialized require flatbed experience, so why not get it? It opens more doors for you later, or you hate it and leave it to be a box door swinger