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At least in Canada, right now and for the past year +, the load boards are ########. There's nothing on there you'll build a good and profitable, lucrative business on.

Heres a tip and this has served me well as a regional guy... may not work for you depending on your local economy or what you want to do....if you're gonna do it independantly, build relationships with your local business and haul their crap in for THEM. Not whoever their shipper is. Potential customers can and will gladly supply their own truck if you can beat the service and can compete or even be slightly more expensive than the rates their suppliers shipper co-ordinates. Small businesses like small businesses. Big businesses don't want to deal with a one truck army.

Everyone sells the trucking. Sell the service. I've been independant for 1.5 years (after being leased to a few carriers over the past decade) and 90% of my business is direct. Load boards are for filling holes or the odd gap, don't rely on them or you'll be running all over the place for nothing.

 

North of 800 means you're upper tier. The real ones know this.