So I found a day cab I would like to purchase. I drove from 2015 to 2018. I quit trucking and went into the medical field. Spent 2 years in X-ray school and graduated in December of 20. Got a job working only on the weekends but it's a full time job. My shift is 36 hours (I sleep at the hospital but I'm on call so I can get woken up at anytime. Sometimes I don't get sleep) from Saturday 0700 to Sunday at 1900 then I'm off the rest of the week (M-F). I have a cousin that bought a truck (not a semi, kinda like a F450) that he uses to haul Peanuts. He says that he gets 100 dollars per load and that there is never a shortage of loads but they always have a shortage of drivers at this peanut plant. He literally works the 3 months of the peanut season and he makes enough to not work again until the next peanut season (which is 9 months away at that point) and he has a 2 kids and a wife and they just bought a house and land. He wife works at a tomatoe sauce making place, so she doesn't make a huge amount of money. Anyway he said that the semi truck drivers get 200 per load and they struggle even more because they don't have enough drivers. I found a Volvo 10 speed day cab with 375k miles on it and the guy wants $20,000 for it. I figured if average 5 to 6 loads a day, I could pay off the truck in just a couple weeks and everything after that would be nothing but profit (Minus the obvious expenses like insurance, fuel, maintenance blah blah). Do y'all think that this would be a good idea??? I'm really thinking hard about it but I want some opinions from other actual truckers. I'd still keep my weekend job, this would be a side thing that I do in September when the peanut harvest comes in.
Thinking about buying a day cab
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by ThunderCookie, May 17, 2024.
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