I too worked Intermodal for 4 years and made a good deal of money at Schneider untill they pushed all of us owner operators out to the OTR jobs after they got enough company drivers to do the work.... as for dray carriers, i tried to work with one that paid 71% and after running all over Chicago trying to get a chassis from one place and a box from another and sitting in lines for hours and hours I decided the 4-6 hours I had left to work I was never able to make any money..... other than that I would say just to stay away from containers because now that Schneider, Swift, Werner, and JB are all doing rail, the freight is going to go down the shitter.
I was pulling turbine blades this summer and made a great deal of money, and now that winter has rolled around, I went back to Schneider on there "IC Choice" program and am doing quite well now too. I average about $4000-$5000 week and run under 3000 miles