I've been driving local for awhile and am about to head OTR to learn, see if I like it and if so buy a truck. There's one thing, acutally many, that has me puzzled.
This industry has several mega-carriers with thousands upon thousands of trucks and drivers. With that being what it is, how is there so many ower/operators out there doing their own thing. I'm not talking about the ones leased to a mega carrier, but on their own.
What is different about trucking? What I mean is, for instance in retail you have the mega stores like Walmart, Target, Kmart etc, thus the mom and pop stores are gone. In electronics it's Best Buy and Circuit city, no mom and pops.
It seems to me that in most industries, at first blush anyway, that where there are mega anything, the small guys get wiped out.
Any opinions on this?
Thank you.