[geeks] ph-ux!

[Ken Hansen]

Being a "owner/operator" is very rough, you have to manage your loads and minimize your down time/dead head travel (waiting for a job/driving to a job without a load). And when you do get a load, you are paid a small amount over the cost to operate the truck for the given amount of time. Oh, and hope that the $75-125K investment you are riding around in doesn't break.

Of course, salaried drivers have different dynamics, that mainly involve quality of life compromises.

Better to be a life guard and get some VR Goggle type display and code there... Besides, then you could persue another career and join the Ski Patrol in the winter! (Though I would suggest saving your coding efforts until you are at the bottom of the run... ;^)

Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: John Duksta [mailto:jduksta at genuity.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:15 AM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] ph-ux!


At 09:12 AM 5/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I hear that long distance truckers make a decent penny.  Just need a good
>speech recognition setup, and I can code while I truck. ;)

Actually, I was listening to NPR the other day and there
was a segment about Owner/Operator Truckers getting out of
the business because they can't make a living at it.
The current market has the big trucking companies hiring
inexperienced (read cheap) young drivers for the company
owned trucks and it's apparently driving down the margin
for the 'real' truckers (the owner/operators).

-john

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