Question on understanding lanes..

Tried and true at Landstar, in my experience with them so far at least.

 

Stay away from the coasts pretty much unless you feel you are getting paid enough to go.

 

In my experience running spot market general freight (dry van), what I have learned is that there are hardly any areas you can run in to and out of that are decent. It's usually good in/bad out or bad in/good out. There are a lot of areas where it's just kind of half decent in/out but not many.

I have told many over the years to learn your lanes/know your lanes and that's kind of what I mean but it applies differently to whatever kind of freight you haul. For instance, even though I run dry van I NEVER haul food. I just hate it. I never have a good experience at food DC's so I just don't even try. Too easy to hang up and find another load.

So I guess 'know your lanes' comes after learning what you like to haul and when, what general parts of the country you like to work in and honestly what you need to make to be happy. You said you weren't trying to get rich, same here, I prefer doing work I enjoy and that for me means staying the hell out of certain areas and not hauling certain things.

Good luck sir!

 

This answer is exactly why, You want to make your own decisions, we all applaud you, full speed ahead, dam the torpedo's. Going into a forum and asking a question then spewing crap because you don't like the answer, nobody here cares if you go broke on your first trip out. Good Luck with that attitude, I'm sure it will take you along way.

 

Not to get rich but find freedom by means of becoming an owner operator? Like money is secondary? This is supposed to be busines and with that attitude, you'll become a slave to your truck and brokers, then credit cards and whatever else there is that makes that thing running. You gotta be driven by wanting to make money, otherwise it is not going to last too long.

 

I don't know, there's a happy medium. You can be driven by making money without being slave to the truck 24/7.

 

Yes sir it probably closer to 20/6!!!