New with lots of questions

in and around Florida you better be willing to do it cheap because everybody else does

 

Sounds like a quick way to go bankrupt,....In my opinion....

 

If you want to run under your own authority,..the insurance will be expensive,..and without GOOD customers of your own you probably would go broke.....Trying to run only brokered freight is a recipe for disaster,...

 

Freight coming out of Florida is really hard to come by, so you can be looking at some good deadhead miles. Starting out as a new CDL holder and O/O is going to be very difficult. Insurance is going to be difficult to get and expensive if you can find it. Getting a broker or shipper to book freight to you with no track record at all will also be difficult.

I say your best bet would be to start by driving for another company first to get some experience. Being from West Palm, it would be a challenge just to find an otr company that would hire you as a company driver.

There is quite a bit of info in the various threads in the O/O section already that probably cover most of what you will want to or need to know.

Not trying to discourage you, but there is so much to the industry in the way of regulations, procedures, etc, that it really is best to get a year or two under your belt as a company driver before even thinking about going o/o. Not to mention the fact that you have no idea if you will even like or be able to handle the industry and work.

 

I agree with the rest of them...it is a tough game .......for kicks and grin I pulled up the load board for my co. and there were a grand total of 4 loads within the state of FL..origin/destination........if you go to work for a local company that does the type of freight hauling that you are interested in, learn the ropes through them then you can get a better idea of what is out there and the possiblity of your chances of success.

 

4 loads and 4k trucks...

 

yea you got that right!.....my truck is in Jersy right now and I am matched for 4 loads out of MD that don't load till Monday and we are about truck # 40........ok ok maybe we are truck # 30 ish

 

sounds like intermodal would work best for you. mostly short runs, cheap trucks, and looser restrictions(it least thats how it is in jersey)

but i agree w/ everyone else, try about 2 years as a company driver 1st