Just read this thread... and I'm no O/O (yet) and don't know sheit from shinola, lol!
But, I was just wondering about a possible niche for you... if the lumber thing don't work out.
If your reefer is "workable," (and you didn't trade it for a flatbed...) I wonder what kind of money you could make (and trouble you could get into) by checking with the "produce sheds" in Salinas, Coachella and the Ventura area. [The main ones. There's also Bakersfield and the Imperial Valley sheds.]
I'm just mulling this over, but... they need a lot of produce "shuttled" from field to cooler, cooler to OTHER coolers, and stuff like that. I would think they MIGHT pay good money when they are desperate and need stuff moved around to fill a truckload order that their business may depend on.
I used to haul produce back to NC from the west coast (including apples from WA, taters and lettuce from CO, and onions from NV.] I can't tell you how many times I was held up at a shed waiting on a load of something coming from somewhere else to fill my "order."
I'm thinking along the lines of an "on call" EXPEDITER. [Yes, I'm a bit of an entrepreneur as well.]
Let me know what you think of the idea. If I haven't been clear enough... just ask.
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