Success or failure

It'll depend on your neck of the woods. I hate dry van and refer's myself. I do only heavy haul. But flat's are not bad to start with. Some area's van and refer's are more in demand. I will do any of them if it made more business sense.

 

Yes absolutely. Starting out I relied heavily on Internet truckstop. Made some contacts there, a few just stopped by the house cause they saw I had the equipment, and some by knocking on doors. I still do a fair bit of brokered freight. With a select group of brokers.

 

Cold calling to me has been the hardest way to find customers. I just don't like or really have the ability to be a salesman.

 

I barely trust myself if I were going to get my own truck. I wouldn't even want to hire a co-driver unless I knew them REALLY well. I would never feel comfortable about owning a truck and having someone else drive it for me. There are far too many problems. When I first started driving OTR, I worked for a mom and pop company with three trucks. They drove one, the other two had teams. They always had issues and ended up giving up the other two.

 

There is a lot of liability putting someone you barely know in a truck and sending them down the road.