Some numbers for new O/O

I wish dry vans were much more difficult to operate. Perhaps they could make the swing doors heavier and harder to open. Only tough guys could haul dry vans. Maybe then the rates would be better. Ha Ha Ha!

 

Reefers can haul most dry product just fine though. Not so much the other way around. The only real problem with trying to put dry van loads in reefers is if you have loads that need securement with lumber nailed into the floor, or loads that need straps rather than load locks.

 

I pulled refer my first 3 years in this vocation, so I do have some experience with it. If I could only lock up contract freight hauling chocolate peanut butter ice cream at say $5.00 a mile, I'd buy a refer tomorrow.

 

Some Cheekaguu bois were bodybuilders in ex Soviet Union block...lol

 

Some shippers would not load a reefer even though they could. Reefers mean a lot more BS to deal with that you don't have with a dry van but indeed even what Uber and the likes have had to offer lately for reefers was heavens better than dry vans. Grass looks greener there.

 

Dry shippers love to damage Reefer walls too it seems. Run it in at an angle till it hits the wall and smashed the next skid then go grab another. Smh

 

Well, the upside of being leased to a mega is that the rates tend to stay pretty stable. Granted, when the freight blows up like it did 18 months ago, the true O/O"s do much better. Some of it bleeds out to us, but not much.

That said, I prefer stability.

 

Who gives a #### what company drivers think? Not having to be out for 3 weeks or more in a row is one of the reasons to go owner op and not be a company driver.

 

This is all too hard, and too depressing. I'm going to JBHUNT.