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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brandonpdx, post: 12176266, member: 12929&quot;]The 20% didn&#039;t bother me as much as how much in fees I&#039;d be on the hook for. Nearly $300 a week with the insurance, trailer rental and parking. I don&#039;t like that kind of overhead nibbling away at me if I have to even lose one week due to a truck repair or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>The RV hauling outfit is <i>very</i> slow and he isn&#039;t signing anybody else up right now...all of them are on a hiring freeze AFAIK, unless you&#039;ve got a trailer and big truck maybe there is still some work hauling the small units off the ground. I had an idea though yesterday. There is a 25 footer with a pair of 7k axles in his yard right down the road from me that one of his other drivers owns and has parked there...a guy I know somewhat. It&#039;s right there in front of me and I could afford to buy something like that with cash if he made me a good deal on it. No idea if he&#039;s even interested in selling it or if would make any sense at that length of deck, but it has occurred to me that if I were to get my <i>own </i>trailer, the RV guy has said before he&#039;d let me lease it on and run general freight under his company authority. The terms with him would theoretically be far more reasonable IMO...almost nothing per week. I think he charges $80 per <i>month </i>for the RV hauling to his drivers and then of course no weekly trailer rental fee or parking fee if it&#039;s my trailer and leased to his outfit. I already have/had a pretty good working relationship with him and know how he operates. I would pretty much have to find my own work...no backseat driving dispatchers here although he&#039;d probably help me out with office stuff. He takes 20% also off all RV deliveries or backhauls. Still a horrible idea with the rates and fuel now? This would be nothing that happens next week or even next month...wrong time of year to start something like this anyway. But this course of action strikes me as a little more realistic and flexible than paying $25k for a Shipshe trailer and then being married to a very cyclical niche operation like RV hauling (or cars). General flatbed freight I know has it&#039;s ups and downs as well but is typically a little more steady and resilient isn&#039;t it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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