Tons of trucking jobs ... that nobody wants

[FrodosPet]

138. Because someone else will undercut you?

When you are running trucks, you not only have to pay the driver, you have to pay for the truck, the insurance, the dispatchers and order takers, the mechanics to keep it running, the fuel, the tires, the bookkeepers, the safety compliance person, the custodian, the ...

And sometimes you have to wait months to get paid by the shippers, but meanwhile the employees, the insurance company, the finance company, the utilities, and the landlord or note holder for your terminal want to get paid NOW.

And then, if nobody loses a primary customer by messing up a delivery, and nobody ruins $100,000 worth of cargo because they forgot to check the reefer unit temperature, and no one crashes and kills someone, and the DOT doesn't shut you down because some desperate dispatcher is running drivers over hours, you MIGHT make a profit.

Until some clown starts taking over your shippers by offering a nickle a mile less.