Getting port contracts if possible...just thinking

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  1. trucky909

    trucky909 Light Load Member

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    I just purchased a 2012 freightliner a month ago and I currently work long beach port in CA. I'm not that fond of port work but the transition was smooth because I basically signed on as O/O to the same company i was a local driver for. I basically do 2 trips a day....running empty in and loaded container out. $250 a round trip.... $500 a day....mon-fri...sat is optional. I only drive about 220 miles a day which is ok. After fuel ($450- $500 weekly) and other expenses...I'm doing $1,800- $2,000 take home weekly. Im still doing 12 hr days due to traffic but I may go to nights to minimize that. I wanted to know if there was a way to expand with it, maybe get my own port contacts..
    utilize load boards or go through a broker if it would yield more income? Just a thought looking ahead if I decided to really go out on my own which I know is a completely different animal. I run under the company's insurance ($70 weekly) and don't have my own authority yet, so I know I would need to change that eventually, but just thinking of other possibilities with it. If anyone has a blueprint for that...i would appreciate it...any advice would be appreciated.

    Thanks guys....
     
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  3. x1Heavy

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    1800 a week or more doing 12 hours a day supporting a port that will likely be a everlasting business should allow you to put aside some money each week. Maybe 500. Times 52 weeks = 26000 saved. Cash ready to go a year from today.

    5 years? 100,000. How many trucks made for basic in and out container stuff can you get for that money? And once you get maybe 5 of them and begin to put away 2500 per week instead of 500, you will have about half a million 10 years from today more or less without too much difficulty cash.

    What can you do with a half million in a decade? Put people to work in even more trucks? You sir will probably not have to work again once you get the right people running your righteous company.
     
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  4. bulldawg trucker

    bulldawg trucker Medium Load Member

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    Yep I kind of agree. If you are generating that kind of revenue with port work you are doing good. I considered because of the proximity I am in with port Wentworth(Savannah). But I could never get the numbers to work like that on the pay the companies offered. Containers are one of those commodities that seems you just have to find a good container company that pays decent lease on and run with it until the have a steam of O/O trying to get in and change the pay.
     
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  5. Tug Toy

    Tug Toy Road Train Member

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    $1500 to $1800 a week don't go to far in cali.
     
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  6. HotH2o

    HotH2o Road Train Member

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    Especially in Souther Cal
     
  7. trucky909

    trucky909 Light Load Member

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    Thanks and yes Cali is not cheap....that's why I'm trying to think outside the box here.
     
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  8. x1Heavy

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    If not south Cali, then where? here in the south 1800 is like three months pay.
     
  9. Parker Randal

    Parker Randal Bobtail Member

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    1500.00 -1800.00 beats the hell outta any OTR work and you know it ...
     
  10. Western flyer

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    Is this the same port that's on news every week because
    All of the companies are robbing and stealing from
    The truck drivers everyweek.
    Working 80 hour weeks for 300 bucks.
    They've made the national news with some
    Of the stuff going on out there.

    How's your company pulling this off.
    Every owner operator out there claims they're getting
    Screwed and here you are rolling in the dough.
    Somebody's lying.
     
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