So much choices......

[OntarioVanMan]

Compared to 2009/2010, yep.

If we look back into history, nope but we don't hear how bad it was in 2007 rather we are hearing from a select few how great it is to be in a van or how a couple companies have been treating them so well the contractors are scheduling their company spa treatments months in advance.

Things are pretty good really....just`stepping from the spa at the Hilton....guess it depends on your carriers customer base at this moment....

 

[chefdennis]

Wow!! Yeap I am in line with OVM... guess greg is at the "spa" out by the airport run by "those" ladies...2009 I grossed over $75,000 and in 2010 dang near $85,000..all in a paid for CV...I am on the way to more ths yr...hey can i get "Aromatherapy" with that massage....

curmudgeon...

 

[KimonoSkunk]

The problem is, over the years we've seen this over and over again. Most of the people who enter this business, in the order you are entering it, fail utterly. I got my van and a set of keys and I'm ready to roll. Show me the money. Hey, I can drive a van, it's easy. I don't need to learn anything about the industry, 'cause it's just driving, right? And I don't even need a CDL so there's no need in wasting time in learning what it means to be a professional driver. I got my van and a set of keys, cha-ching, cha,ching, cha-ching. I'm different because mine's a new van. It's not insulated and there's no place to sleep yet, and I don't have any decking or e-track or ratchet straps, but show me the money anyway. I've got my van and a set of keys, vroom, vroom, this'll be a piece of cake. It's easy money, man.

Not all fail, to be sure. About 50% stay longer than 6 months, and half of those make it as long as a year. This is not an industry that treats too kindly those who enter full of ignorance expecting to learn the ropes as they go. It doesn't take long to hang yourself with those ropes. If you have enough cash reserve and get lucky with most of your decisions then you'll do OK. Many people do just that. You may be one of them.

So it's not for us to sort out. We've just spectators watching an oft repeated spectacle.

I like what Turtle said here...

Kimmyskunk

 

[Jack_Berry]

Yes, thats so true but there is a lot of peeps that just try to turn you down. Like the saying about the glass being half empty or half full.. I view it as half full and stay positive. I do feel you but I think I got some experience but no doubt I do lack a whole bunch

well, how did it go? get signed on yet?