What type of trucking makes the most money

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  1. 1nicevette

    1nicevette Medium Load Member

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    It does pay well but it is feast and fanthon a lot and what good money you make you will spend a lot on parts as the roads are ruff chaining up in the mud and snow and the roads eat up steer tires.
     
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  3. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    My tractors make a lot more than my straight trucks.
     
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  4. OldeSkool

    OldeSkool Road Train Member

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    Owner operators are making money?? I need a contact # please!!!!
     
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  5. starmac

    starmac Road Train Member

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    Staying busy and making the most money generally doesn't go together. lol Heck staying busy and making money at all sometimes don't.

    Somebody mentioned ice road, they done went and watched to much tv. lol

    What I have always found to make money is what most either can't or won't do, and then it is on a time span.
    It will not be long before folks decide you are going to get rich, and all of a sudden the rates are back to general freight rates.
     
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  6. PE_T

    PE_T Road Train Member

    Being a businessman isn’t for everyone.
     
  7. Diesel Dave

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    Took me many years to get the right contacts. Not to mentioned, they know the services I can provide to please them. It works both ways.
     
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  8. rabbiporkchop

    rabbiporkchop Road Train Member

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    Something along the lines of this.
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  9. QuietStorm

    QuietStorm Heavy Load Member

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    I was going to say, the bigger the load the bigger the money.
     
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  10. Ragman54

    Ragman54 Light Load Member

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    Whats money? ...... :laughing3:
     
  11. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    I have a little something inside of me in my mind and spirit to take on some danger. A very long time ago there was a quasi military program, seriously... watered down for us teenagers in Virginia west of DC with a number of pretty serious problems, some of which is high up off the ground. That was where I was afraid of.

    I found that being scared of something is just fear itself. You can box it up in mind and move out to do the objective. Just keep moving ignoring or shoving aside the panic. You dont want panic. It's there. Anyone who says different is not human.

    Then going into trucking I have been with some loads that were questionable into weather and terrain that really did not feel good at all. It's almost all the old heads sit in the counter laughing at the dummy newbie trying to deliver through that ice or whatever crap tonight. Bets are taken if he will crash out or fail.

    It gets really dark some nights when you are on bad ground. Or even off it.

    I was learning to be afraid of one thing. The motivation to take on dangerous stuff. The smart trucker says bombs? no thanks forget it you wont see me here. Bye. Me? Sure gimme keys.

    Oh god the kids got it.... That's ok, he's disposable. Let's get to the bar.

    That's why you wont see me on the ice roads. Ive enough time throwing stuff at the television set in the seasons they showed that one. Ive always though they took a little too much off the top, dumbed it down quite a bit for the circus crowd and so on.

    I do have limits. One asked if I wanted to haul Bees. Unfortunately I don't know if I can take bee stings. Ive been hit by hornets, wasps and who knows what. But bees? No thanks. It's funny, they work that one bush about this time of year pollenating it as worker bees and you can stand inside the cloud of them and stay still, they wont mind. But put em in a truck in boxes? oh no. no.
     
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