Well I spoke with truckers edge today. It seems I am paying 30/month more because I signed up "before the rate adjustment". Stay tuned, folks. More in this later.

Original Poster >>>>>... is it worth it?
Rank >>>> no. owning a trucking company is not worth the time, capital and risk if you ask me. not for the $30,000 pre income tax dollars you might net every year
Bigmon >>>I've met Dr.s, lawyers, airline pilots, etc. that say their profession isn't worth it either.
Rank >>Have you met any that said they wanted be a truck driver?
Bigmon > Steve Booth has. I met several that did other things like work at car dealerships, hotels and some became activist.

How did you go from Doctors and laywers to used car salesmen? Quite a leap isn't it? As for Steve, nice guy sure ( he even paid me $80 to find him a load out of Gillette, WY one time), but still not a doctor or a lawyer.....and he lasted less than 2 yrs in this business IIRC.

Steve met the Dr.s, lawyers etc. that became truckers. I met Dr.s and lawyers that quit their jobs and went to selling cars.

I call BS.

Did Steve Booth quit trucking? I had not heard that. What drove him out: equipment problems, living in a truck, high costs, living in a truck, downtime waiting for overpriced repairs, broker greed, low rates, living in a truck, loneliness, fourteen hour work days, living in a truck, no family life or did he just find something even better?

he probably lucked out with the sale of the truck: due to all space age technology mods he did, the truck would be a hit on ebay!

LOL the last I heard he went back to his old job.

With Truckers Edge do you find the rate index to be relatively accurate? Also the hot states feature, does anyone use it?

This seems like a decent board, I might sign on today or tomorrow.

I don't pay any attention to the rate index and hot load thingies, Rosty. I find they are skewed toward vans to the point they are almost not applicable to step deck and double drop frieght.

BTW, I spoke to the billing department the other day. It seems the reason I am being charged $80/month instead of $50 is because I get to see both US and Canadian load postings. Apparently for the $50 you only get to see loads from the country you live in. I don't buy that story. Anyone want to see if they can get international postings for $50?

When/If I sign up I'll ask about the international postings. Have you met any decent contacts from the board that you do repete business with? A broker that might call you before he post something on the board perhaps?