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The money side should worry you, most of what companies do do is related to one of two ways of getting their work - automotive or load boards. Watching your money is as improtant as getting good paying loads. Not to discourage you, but if you read carefully to what some of us are saying, what...

Yeah - know your business. Be professional and track expenses and money carefully. Most fail because they don't do this first and lose site of what it takes to live on the road while making money for bills at home.

Before you go any further, find out if you do. I would consider this as a show stopper, not thinking that it actually is but for one who has had to jump hoops on the dot physical every year the problem with your situation is that you may be alright with one doctor but not with another one, and...

You have to pay? They should compensate you for all driving, regardless what it is. I also think that if they are to expect you to drive as an employee, they keep the van loaded and moving at all times. There is enough cheap uship work out there to keep things rolling.

So as an employee, you are paid by the hour or by the job or by the mile? I would assume that regardless, your compensation for the deadhead is the same as the loaded compensation?

OK please explain this to us, you started off in a sprinter but now in a van until your "company" gets another sprinter, are you an employee?

The first question to you is Why? The second one is if you have little capital, why? It takes years to build a good fleet and it takes someone who have been doing this a while to grasp it. It may be a year on the road or three years, everyone is different. So I would start off with getting...

Before any advice is given, it matters what you have done in the past and how much experience you have in the industry.

This appears to be the great IP address banning system at work.

The gross income potential might be higher in a T/T is what I meant. But either way I wouldn't really know since I have only seen random numbers. Random thoughts ... It isn't all about the numbers it is about the flexibility. More often than not, a tractor will not sit when a straight...

Because you are providing an on demand service. Your customer isn't the shipper or who pays the freight bill but the carrier and you are providing them that service ad hoc. Compensation is an individual thing and this is where you either are a business or need to grab every penny you can get...

I find it rather hard that you have that choice but if you did, than I can understand your reluctance. We are all our own little island and nothing will ever change that. Unless we want to run our business in sync with others and put an odd but concerted effort into making sure we are on...

OK so 85 cents plus 17 cents ---> 1.02 a mile. So how much do you pay in fees a week? OH and what's with the little truck, --------my signature line -------- and the format change? We moving towards a fisher price forum style?

Well that does seem to be a problem if it is an all inclusive rate. BUT what is the bottom line? As already asked, will that rate be offset by the lack of those $95 to $115 a week in other charges, like Commdata fees or cargo insurance? If I remember right, many carriers charge some...

I want to know where the 87 cents came from. Is it LRT that is giving it or who? I thought that FedEx was at 77 cents and panther was something like that.

27 posts and not one of them explains where those rates in the second post came from.

Kalymnos? Really? Part of my brother-in-law's family is from there. It's close to Turkey, right? Oh the blue Aegean sea ... I know one thing that comes from the island - sponges. I have some of those sponges that I got as a gift.

Well I don't know... BUT IF you can get into a tractor, go for it. You will take freight from those straight trucks and vans at the same time. :D