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edbenton, I had a shining oppertunity once I guess I was too young for it anyways. A owner operator had a 379 pete with a dane spread 48' (8 foot spread) reefer and he was hiring for a driver specifically for Cookies out of Gettysburg PA-Harrisburg PA region to New Orleans and Seafood back to Baltimore. Salary roughly 1100 a week. I said salary not mileage pay. Home every saturday night until Monday AM. Dedicated. Talk about paradise! I showed up as neat and clean as possible with a stack of good papers for the interview. He was very nice, he had 6 other trucks on the same run. Then I tried to "Close the sale" by asking him if he knew if I was to be dispatched out... I had him leaning towards getting the rig out on the road as we both had that afternoon for it. He leaned back and smiled, then reached over to the filing cabinet. Pulled 4 drawers open and papers fluttered out of all of them. Told me that is two days worth of applications since he ran the ad. Someone is going to get it and it aint gonna be me. (experience etc) when I left there were 12 people waiting in the other room to talk to him. Man what a crew. I learned something that day. I still smile at the recollection because that particular set up is really good if you can get 6 trucks on it and keep em going long term with just those two (Actually 4) customers. I have been pondering refriegerated train service to that part of Washington State and it has to be worth something to somebody. But the railroads need to be very fast with these loads and they gotta be "smooth" not tripping over the rails and stumbling over the paperwork or slipping on the fuel puddles or getting run over by eager local drivers waiting for the quitting time whistle.
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