What type of trucking makes the most money

That would be the businessman not the truck or type of truck. It’s all in the art of the deal

 

From what I've gathered on this sight, it has to be anything with a 20 year old tractor and an open deck trailer.

You can make $100K with a dry van, but that's basically laundry money to those guys.

 

If you can get into Medical. I don't know if you are able to withstand constant overnight delivery with a routine return to say Memphis for reload with cardboard as we did. First FFE introduced us to it and we later joined a 50+ truck fleet leased to McKesson there. The one time we diverted from return to memphis was to cube volume out the trailer for NYC after 9-11 happened that morning. They reloaded scrap and cardboard back to Memphis. Out of Conn.

I think those would be pretty good runs. Although there are higher dollar medical stuff that is seriously time critical that probably will pay you really big money, blood and plasma type products for instance among other things.

However.

When I took my pen and bought that mid 90's 120- midroof, everyone told me that as long I am loaded to here and loaded back to home each way the money will take care of itself. So there isnt any reason for failure as a O/O as long your income both ways exceed your bleeding expenses.

 

Flatbed is terrible. Reefer is where its at.

 

It’s all the specialized stuff that makes the most. Those ice road guys make like $30k for a couple months work, the heavy haul and oversized drivers make a lot, but the more they make the more risks and responsibilities they take on. Do you WANT to be the guy responsible for hauling the nitroglycerin, even if it pays more? I’ve avoided hazmat and higher stuff for this reason. If I ever screw up, it’ll be the mess of water bottles on the side of the road, not the house jammed under the overpass, or the kenworth under the ice in the arctic sea.

 

Yeah, only work 3 mos out of the year too.

 

Best kept secret is Amazon. But keep that on the down low.

 

I find regional pays better. And better home time too.