Sounds like an opportunity..
Any Freepers want to get together and start a trucking business?
Sattelite radio and Patriot Channel are nearly as good as Freeping all day!
Frequent radio advertisements looking to recruit long haul drivers here in southeast Florida. Perhaps the biggest challenge is that the income is not all that higher than what one could gather from the various unemployment assistances.
If I could back a trailer, I’d consider it!
Fortunately, I already have a good job.
Look,not that many want to work long hours,seldom see family,be harassed by snotty brokers if they DO try to follow the driving laws, and so on, for a modest income.
25 years ago my girlfriend suggested I take up truck driving as I would be home every other weekend! Well,ex-girlfriend.I deduced she really didn’t care all that much.
Long haul truck is kind of strange :you would think the better way to move goods would be by rail ,then only local trucking needed.Most marriages do not benefit from long seperations.
As for owner operators,I see what some are paid to haul a full load from Ohio to Texas.Say an average $1000(it varies depending on the broker,for the same load from the same origin to the same destination).Subtract the cost of 150 or more gallons of $4 fuel.Trucks loaded get 4 to 6 mpg.Factor in insurance ,taxes, tires,other maintenance.
Owner operators have no easy road.
Many trucks are driven by Mexican and other foreign people because as low as the pay,it still beats what they could get back home.