Seasonal trucking operation?

[coolbreeze]

Has anyone had success trying to run their own authority only part of the year, say for 3-4 months during the winter?
Is this possible or is their simply too much overhead to make any money this way?

[GMAN]

Running your authority is expensive. Your insurance costs will be the major expense next to your equipment costs, providing you plan on sitting a lot. Unless you plan on doing it as a hobby or have some really high paying seasonal freight, I think it would be too expensive for what you would get out of it.

[yoopr]

]Has anyone had success trying to run their own authority only part of the year, say for 3-4 months during the winter?

Not as a O/O and Particularily not during the Winter when freight is in a slow period.

[btinc]

Really hard to say in today's trucking environment, years ago if you had your equipment paid off and ran the truck 24 a day with a couple of drivers you could do what you are talking about during the tomato and grape harvest in Ca. A big fruit harvest with a processing plant close by would be the only way i could see it being done, if the rates today are comparable to the cost of living years ago.