deville wrote:
Looking at the responses in this thread just makes me think How sad is it that $60 to $70k gross as a solo van driver has become an unrelaistic yearly goal. It's down right DISGUESTING. How we let it get to this point just boggles my mind.
Ok I wasn't going to go past my 1st couple of post because the OP seems to not understand the business, but after deville posted I figured I'd come back and clear up my post....
My 1st thoughts when I read the OP was this guy is looking to work part time...staying 5-10 days a week....looking to make ONLY $60-70 grand gross a year....then in his next post he is looking for freight out of Detroit and then back.....
Fact is Deville, as was pointed out, there are people out here in CV's make good money....over $80-90 grand a yr grosss, but it all depends on each persons willingness to work and work hard.....not staying out 5 days or looking for "out and back" runs....thats not expediting....those people are the ones that go broke and get out, as was also pointed out.....
I know people at the Fed in CV's that do very well, they are teams or solos with no debt....but a solo with payments to make having hand off freight because of too many miles or too few hours available aren't knocking down real good money.....as a solo in a CV it is my opinion ( and we all know what those are like) that you need to contract to a company that will let you handle freight from pickup to delivery all the way through without transfering it bcause of the limit on miles they will let you drive or the hours they will let you drive....now that doesn't mean solo's with those limits aren't doing well, it just means it makes it that much harder and you have to have a quick learning curve of the companies why of doing things and working it to your advantage....
So yes you can make money in a CV..you just have to know how to...
