What type of trucking makes the most money

Internet trucking, is by far the most profitable, but I am an open deck type of guy and it is just too hard to strap down and I hate tarps.

 

What I have found is the more effort, or even knowledge it takes, the better it pays.
It also usually pays better if it takes specialized equipment that has to be invested in.
What most people will not do usually pays a premium.
but nothing last forever, a guy can invest in specialized equipment, it is always just a matter of time before others does, and the rates only go one way.
I hope the guy that pulled the first set of RM doubles committed suicide, because of the mess he started. I am sure he got close to two loads of pay for a few months. The last I knew Lynden pays oo's 14 cents a mile to pull that second trailer, it is the same or close with other companies. We get 145 an hour on local jobs with a side dump, jobs where they can be used, companies will pull doubles for an extra 25 bucks an hour. I have a hard time beliving that pays for the extra fuel burnt.

 

Men in dark grey suits with sunglasses will be visiting you soon. They will be quite large, and don’t talk much.

 

Apparently any trucking where the beater driving owner ops that run so hard they cant afford to stop and change a headlight bulb..I've assumed, outside of having endorsements. Oh and if you keep your tires inflated makes a lot too. Hand unload can pay but then you have to worry about counts/claims/receiving which depending on the product/customer/warehouse loading can always have the potential to be dicey/unreliable IMO. If you really want to make money and get bored with usual setups flatbed is looking like a good option along with other benefits with plenty of hiring out of midwest atm

 

Hauling freight that you're more efficient with pays more than freight paying more dollar for mile. I can haul steel from Chicago to Cleveland and back all day every day more efficiently and more cost productive than a driver blindly traveling the country chasing the rates because a tarped lumber load to the Ozarks of Arkansas 3 hours off the beaten path paid $0.12 more per mile. A van/reefer driver that sticks with shippers and receivers he knows well will make more than the driver hauling a blind load that pays $0.30 more a mile just to sit at a DC for 14 hours getting unloaded.

In summary, thinking of yourself as a business owner pays more than thinking of yourself has a truck driver who happens to owns his own truck but still has a company driver mindset. It doesn't really matter what freight you haul or what region you haul in, but the knowledge of how to work in that market is what matters.