Doing my due diligence

I wanted to point out the same thing!

 

It really depends on what your plan is. If you’re jumping in with your own authority and all that then yes you need a large cash reserve. You will need to pay all your expenses for a month or two before money starts coming in.

If your plan is to lease to carrier that offers a fuel card and everything then really you’ll only have two weeks of running until cash flow starts. So obviously you wouldn’t need to be sitting on a large pile of cash for that.

 

Probably pay .75 a mile empty. I worked there for 7 days. Was .50 loaded .40 empty. Empty miles were about 2/3 of your mileage pay. $90 a load in extra pay. Old old trucks in MA. They say 1300-1700 a week. Most peaked at the bottom of that scale.

 

I honestly think you’d be better finding a different driving job than buying a truck to pull cans in Houston. Cryo drivers typically make good money, have good benefits, drive good equipment and are home a lot. Air Liquide, Airgas, Etc.

 

$0.65 empty. I got more than that hauling containers in Chicago. $1.25 loaded plus fsc, $0.90 empty plus fsc and $0.70 plus fsc for dispatched bobtail, not the first or last of the day.

 

I did Food Service for a few years so I can sympathize. At least where I worked at they had an injured list like a football team.

I don't know anything about your area but containers generally are the lowest paying Freight. In general terms flatbed is much better.

Home every night could be possible, but maybe you should think of staying out one or two nights a week, it might make it easier to make money.

But the real question is your lifestyle. Do you have a wife that likes fur coats and diamond rings and jaguars? Do you have a super giant colossal house with a supergiant colossal mortgage and 10 kids you're going to put through college? Do you have 20 maxed out credit cards and brand new cars and motorcycles that you're paying on?

If you bought a $50,000 truck and in the first year somehow you ended up putting 20,000 into it could you survive that? Could you survive if that happens sooner rather than later assuming you have a truck payment?

Just some things to think about.

 

I have noooo idea what the average pay or fuel costs in that area is, so no help with that.
What I do no and it covers all areas is being an OO is not, has never been, and will never be a 9 to 5 job.
You said enough with just those two restrictions, if they are absolute, then a different driving job is likely your best bet.