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If you are only able to work the truck you plan on buying a few days a week and around your current schedule, it may be difficult to actually make any money doing it. The insurance and truck (trailer?) payments are all the same regardless of how much the truck earns for the month. Also, it may be difficult to find enough good paying freight that also happens to fit your current schedule. If you plan to sign on under someone else's authority, it might work if you got on something dedicated. You would likely take home more if you were able to work a dedicated truck as a company driver for a few days a week.

Just some stuff to think about.

 

if you are staying local and only working 4 days a week, buy truck and trailer with cash, keep your overhead as low as possible. Staying local, you can make some money doing so, plenty of freight moving locally, short runs usually pay over $2 a mile, so as long as you have very little expenses, should be able to turn a profit. You won't get rich in this industry though.

My examples are very general based on van/reefer loads. You might be able to get much better rates pulling other trailers.

Just my $0.02.

 

Some owner-operators working for intermodal/drayage companies do it. Googel intermodal or drayage companies for any near you.

 

Upstate CSX Syracuse has intermodal. http://www.intermodal.com/index.cfm/intermodal-maps/

 

Good luck, hope it works...you could have an issue with insurance if you have not driven in the past 3 years though, even though you had your cdl. I'd find out about that before I bought a truck...insurance seems to rule the trucking world in some ways these days, what you can and can't do.