jumping off cliif blind folded.

I can't directly address your question, as I'm only a wannbe at this moment. But, I'm thinking you have a great chance due to your business experience. You already have developed that understanding that it is a business and understand all the factors that revolve around that. Most business failures, it seems, involves folks not treating their business as a business and the resulting failure to make appropriate decisions and actions from a business perspective. I think that's the biggest stumbling block to most business endeavors. Since you already are experienced working as your own business, the rest, the specific environment and influences of your local ltl industry, is all you need to learn and embrace. And, I would think coming from the local wrecker industry, your network of contacts and associates will put you much closer to ltl work than say coming from a restaurant business.
Good Luck to you, I think you'll do great!!! ( for what it's worth)

 

From the outside looking in it seems ideal.more and more people on the road driving either older or highly sophisticated vehicles neither of which 95% of the aforementioned drivers know how to work on.keep on your advertising during skill expansion and you couldn't possibly go anywhere but up and up.per item clarification the wrecking business is already on an up turn due to vehicle driver ignorance, and your about to get paid to fully round out your skill set via trained long haul trucking.you got one problem.your gonna need more help than you can hire faster than you think.

 

if you have 20 years in the wrecker business, why not look into hauling all these new egr trucks back to the dealers? you see a lot of new trucks broke down along the road. and know one wants to do work alongside the road anymore. lots of luck

 

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!

I actually worked eight years driving a tow truck and tractor trailer. Wreckers are way more fun but you gotta deal with all the stupid customers that crash their prized possessions. If you want to make a good living doing vehicle recoveries, move to Montana. We got plenty of out-of-staters that don't know how to drive in the winter time. Aside from that, swapping over to LTL would be a good gig I'd imagine. If I was in your position, I would be a hot shot driver for the oil fields. Those guys out there always need parts.

 

I did 7 years in towing in Southwest Louisiana. Light, medium and heavy. Don't miss being on call, but it was definitely a much more exciting job!

 

No telling really. At this point I believe it's (fairly) common knowledge that new emission diesel engine's mpg sucks! All of our new city units (Freightshaker M2) have a piss poor fuel gauge. The first half a tank drops off in about 100 miles. Then from 1/2 to 1/4 will last about 200 miles! Junk...can't believe that in this day and age they're struggling to produce an accurate fuel gauge!

Maybe your situation is similar?

 

I have always wanted a diesel pickup... with all this emmsion crap they got horrible gas mileage, and the price is a lot more expensive for fuel