Recent content by J.D.

Shoot, I might just give them a call tomorrow. Hopefully it would be with an owner who can teach me the trade and throw some tips and tricks my way. I'm looking to have enough money to just survive off of and use my time with an owner as a learning experience. I'm sure they have at least one...

Right on I'll give it a shot. I'm pretty much down for any company or recruiter at this point. The main concern is running enough just to be able to pay for fuel, showers, laundry, and food. Less about the pay and more about gaining the experience. The main issue is I live in California...

Hey Yeah I have looked in Classifieds before and I don't mind an older truck if the transmission is automatic (I know I suck, haha). I've been driving a frieghtliner M2 straight for a year and half almost and sometimes a Mercedes Sprinter. The reason I was asking about the driver demand was...

Yeah, I thought about that. I figured that unless the owner has a very private deal settup that it is so short distance that it is basically local, the demand is very low. I guess solo straight owner operators exist out there but they own their own truck. I guess straight truck wouldn't be...

You know about a year and a half ago, I called Panther because I was curious about doing straight truck because it seemed like the perfect balance in trucking. They put me in contact with a guy back east that offered me a nice truck to drive with a sink, fridge, APU, ect. It sounded nice until I...

If I had a family to support, sure. I don't see the logic behind making that kind of money, renting a house or buying one here in California to have it sit empty other than eight hours when you come home to sleep and get ready to drive the same exact routes over and over. There has to be a...

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question but in a way, yes. I've got a spotless driving record and have been a class A holder for two years, going on three now. I've been offered local jobs that pay seventy to eighty thousand a year. The forced ten to fourteen hour a day, five to six...

I've no problem with that, as long as I get enough time to wash my clothes every once in a while and take a shower at least twice a week. When I ran west coast regional in a tractor-trailer pulling reefer, I'd run two months before taking two days for home time. The ONLY reason I took the home...

I WISH I was an employee. I'm a private contractor technically who also volunteers a lot of free hours to help out because they don't really have the budget to keep people hired. I'm one of two drivers they still have for our area. I've been driving for free a lot lately so they don't have to...

Yeah, I thought about that. If I lived in an east coast state or near Ohio, I would have already started driving for an owner to see what it would be like in expediting. My biggest fear is being stranded somewhere on the east coast with no loads or any source of income to even buy food. It has...

I've been researching a little to see if being a solo driver is survivable in terms of having money when things get slowed down due to a lack of freight. I have a big question but here is a bit of background: I'm twenty-six years old with no obligations to any family of any kind. I have no...

Howdy! So, I'm considering getting into expediting. I'm twenty-five years old and have no family that depends on me and zero payments or bills to pay off. I have a class A CDL with a passenger endorsement. I have experience driving a paratransit bus and a seventy-three foot tractor-trailer...