What other owner operators will not tell you when you are new.

Another post about someone crying they are getting screwed by so and so. No one forces you people to pull these loads. Don't like the rate move on and find a better paying load.
If you think now is bad check back in 3 months. It's only going to get worse.

 

I guess you want to be the hero of the trucking community butThis has all been covered several times.Your not telling any secrets here.Unfortunately just being a good driver will not make you a successful owner operator there’s more involved than that. The only secret you didn’t mention is it’s the same as all businesses how good of a salesman are you?If your plan is just to run broker freight it’s going to very difficult to make it

 

Trying to place the accent .
I’m guessing Eastern Europe ?

I didn’t see her give away any valuable info in this video

she shows where the volume is ,
Anyone can figure this out .


and I’m guessing the places she gets the data is also available to anyone who cares to look ?

 

And that is why I've stayed with my carrier thru the thick and the thin resisting the get rich quik spot market .
I know what lanes to run and how much I will gross within a few hundred bucks each settlement period .
My buddy's on the spot market who were laughing at me a couple years ago arnt so smug now as I'm still pre planned 2 loads out and they are sitting at home looking for a load .

 

Always the ones that can’t do it telling everyone it can’t be done.

 

That's what I did I could of left for 2 years and come back but I'm not into the job hopping thing and sure as hell don't wanna be chasing rates just to come back.

 

The whole time I was driving and moved near Atlanta , I had my truck leased to a large carrier, who had opened a terminal in Atlanta and moved their trailer long distance on the railroad , and had a bunch of owner operators leased on to deliver them within a 250 mile radius .

they had plenty of steady freight from major auto manufacturers and while I Probabaly could have made
More money chasing loads from brokers , I did ok and was home almost every night,

when we moved to Biloxi to follow the wife’s job , I hauled bananas from the port there .
And usually came back empty.
The bananas paid good ,nearly double of what other freight paid ant the time , and there was always and endless amount to deliver.
It just wasn’t worth the hassle and time to find a return load , since the return load was only going to pay half of what the outbound bananas paid . And would take a half or entire day to pickup and another half or whole day on the other end to deliver , and it was never back to Biloxi , it was always to somewhere three hours away and it would take several hours to get unloaded etc .

So I just ran back empty for free and grabbed another load of bananas .

You just have to learn what makes money for you and your skills .

 

I've read every post on this thread and so from strictly an observation this is what I see. I'm going to bet the Op is a young guy, not much experience, got the world all figured out, and his opinion is to be agreed with otherwise you are stepping all over his dong. Instead of listening to the experience on this forum, he wants to remind everyone his intelligence exceeds all others. Here's a real quick lesson sport from someone who has been at this a little longer than you have. This industry is like all others, some win some lose. Everyone connected to trucking is needed from shippers to brokers to truckers to receivers. I've had my own authority and I've leased on, and my preference is to lease on for reasons that are none of your dam business. I have never been so brash or arrogant to tell everyone else what they should or shouldn't do mainly because I was too busy minding my own business. You want to run your own numbers, knock yourself out. You want to run direct freight, knock yourself out. But don't tell me what I should or shouldn't do. This industry is not a one size fits all industry so try to understand that and you just might see the good in this industry.

 

I started my business in 2016, i bought a 10 year old hood truck with 3/4’s a million miles on it. I’ve never once hauled a broker load with this truck. I made phone calls and pounded doors to get work, it worked. I have been extremely successful so your assumptions about this industry are off point. New O/O’s can be every bit as successful as myself. They have multiple ways of doing so. They can follow my route, they can slug threw load boards until they build a relationship with a good broker, they can find a good company with a solid freight base to lease on to, and they can use any mixture of the above.


One thing you have wrong about brokers, and is a major reason people fail at Landstar is you need to slug threw it to build a relationship with a good broker/agent, once you’ve done that you’ll get phone calls with the good higher paying loads. Once you hit that point you can rely on networking and forgo the load boards.

 

You're enemy is not the broker, it's the driver taking that $1.30 a mile load.