I read all the ads for owner ops earning upwards of $6000 + per week??

Considering all the costs involved, in order for the whole venture to make a financial sense 5K - 6K gross is a must! Or grossing well over 200K a year. And that's by running less than 3K miles per week. Anything else is short-falling, which is not the same as failure but the reward is too small for all the risk and effort input. The reality is that 6K is unattainable by working only loadboards week after week. Well, maybe it is, if you don't leave your truck except a few days in a month. living enslaved to it.
Having said that, if I were a licenced plumber, carpenter, electrician, or a mason or even better a freemason - LOL - I'd probably leave this business already for something else.The choice is to either wait for another year of 2014 or 2018 to be sent by heavens or go find freight beyond loadboards...

 

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My both trucks do over steadily all year round

 

My buddy car hauler does 9500 grossing every week , but he works much harder ...he just got new rig and every weekend and 4th week he is home

 

If i wouldn't make 6k atleast - i wouldn't do trucking

 

I love how all the truckers talk of highs and lows but no one understands averages. Who cares if you grossed 9k last week. The figure you should be presenting is an average. Look over the last 6 months, a year so on. What did you average per day of working? Give that number so for those wanting to get into this game can estimate what they can gross per week/per month/ per year. Each persons work ethic is different. Some just want to lounge and work half of the year and some like me live in the truck full time.

 

Suuurrrreeee

 

Wanna see my confirmations ?!

 

Living in a truck full time doesn't mean you have a great work ethic. As the old saying goes, work smarter, not harder. Living full time on a truck with no personal like sounds like a one way ticket to Crazyville.

 

LOL... I've seen enough of the stuff you post so no I dont.