Business Plan/ Mentor Needed

If you are moving forward with your authority you can use the one that is currently parked as your first to get the insurance started.

 

There isn't one magic lane that always works for everyone. This is where you need to piece together your plan and then make it happen. Decide where you want to begin looking and start calling brokers. This is where the loadlink is helpful. When you get it setup you will see loads posted, call on them. Ask if it is a regular thing, how often they get these loads, get as much information as you can. If you are a good carrier they will want to load you every week, or every day even maybe. It takes time to build a good relationship. You will want to be ready to go when you call on a load. If you call and you don't have a truck available they will ask why you called. Do that too much and they won't give you the time of day at all. Another situation where it helps to also be a driver.

I just do my reefer work. I have different lanes for different seasons.

 

Being home every day or every other day is tough. I run mostly local and regional and I still have to sleep in the truck a few times a week. In a perfect world, I'd be home almost daily. But #### happens, shippers load too slow, receivers unload too slow, so it doesn't make sense to go home every night. Coming home every night would mean taking cheap loads sometime, and that's something I don't do. I follow wherever the money takes me. What kind of miles are you doing? I usually stay under 1000 and I'm averaging just under $3/mile for the past 6 months. Long haul isn't paying well these days for me. I'll book something if it's over $2 a mile and 1500+ miles but those loads only seem to pop up a few times a month now. At those rates, I'd rather just stay close by and make the same amount.

 

Same as anything.
Difficult, but not impossible.

 

Produce brokers...

The rates are all over the place from week to week and day to day