Which niche in Trucking has the best income for an Owner Operator

His next job will be hauling containers in Chicago

 

It depends a lot on where you live, where you run, and how you run. Some owner ops have more than one type of trailer and use whichever one is hot or in season at the time. There's lots to learn by using the search function of this discussion board.

 

I plan buying used run of the mill steel 48 flat but to be honest even if we did have 1 it wouldn't of moved much in the last yr and a half. One of the guys that parks by us has 2 trucks also and his flats hardly move.

 

Yeah van and reefer are hot these days.

 

Omg no. Not door slamming. No. Please. Say it isn't so.

What about all the " Look at me " that bought $60K Calistogas?

 

Knowing what’s around you can be a major key. You can sit at home and let the brokers keep pushing loads back until they have to move it and there you are sitting at home with a fresh clock asking $2,000 for a $700 posted rate 200 mile run and they have to accept it.

 

Idk I've probably ran 3 weeks total in the past 2 month , about burnt out . Good rates everywhere , really depends if you want to live in your truck or not doing otr .