Two Trucks...

Many successful owner operators go out of business after buying their second truck. Hiring a driver is not as easy as it sounds. You may have a hard time luring a driver away from a company with good pay and benefits that you cannot match. A driver who jumps ship to get a job with you will probably jump ship again when he gets a better offer.

I am thinking that 310 billable hours a month would be difficult. That is basically 14 hours per day for 22 days per month. Under current US HOS rules you can only drive 11 in 14 hours so three billable hours per day would have to be of the non driving variety. I am not sure exactly what billable hours are in that industry. Unless you never had to wait for loading or unloading 310 billable hours is nearly impossible on this side of the border.

 

actually an "even number" of vehicles will cost you more to operate than if you had an "odd number" of trucks. that's why one of your cousins has 13 trucks. for some reason, the "odd number" pulls better for income purposes as the "even number" just about breaks even.............

i read this in some book written by Lew Grill some years ago, but if you do a google search on him, his site wil pop up nad you can browse through his books for more info.

 

that used to be the job nobody wanted, loading gooey used drums on trailers... some have damaged rims, cut your hand open in a second...
Now trailers get 80 full drums in one load, much higher than it used to be...