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Originally Posted by Vjo
Cool  I drove cars from Mpls to Fargo and then back for a while back in the 80s. $50 cash. They drove you down, you drove the car back. Great job. But I had to drive to Mpls to start which was a problem.
There are some truly beautiful women in Minn. Seriously.
I admire you long haul truckers. After I drive about 200 miles I am done. Good money in it tho. I tell guys who are young it is an easy way to make 80K a year but you got to be straight and you got to drive everyday. |
I don't fuck with semi trucks anymore, too expensive to maintain and too many regulations. I own a few cargo vans and a few Dodge Sprinter vans, which can hold around 5000 pounds of freight and get 20 MPG (they have diesel engines made by Mercedes Benz). With the vans the drivers don't have to keep logs so they aren't DOT regulated and can drive as many miles in a day that they can handle. I usually spend my time in the office on the load boards booking runs for my drivers, but finding good expedite drivers is a bitch so more often than not I end up on the road myself. I can't begin to tell you how much I love it though. I made my living off porn for the majority of my adult life, but it's refreshing to know that I can succeed in something else.
It's funny, but in the last few years I fell in love with some towns that I never would have bothered visiting before. There are parts of Alabama that I love, and I never would have step foot in them if not for my expedite business. The same with Texas, there is so much freight going through the border towns that Texas is like my second home, but I love El Paso, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, etc...