{"id":1,"date":"2010-11-13T05:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T11:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-11-13T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:50:02","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Getting Into the Trucking Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/owner-operator-cb.gif\"><\/a>So your thinking of becoming a truck driver but dont know where to start? There are many types of trailers and loads you can haul from 48ft flatbed trailers to Reefer trailers to smaller 24-26ft straight truck (bobtail trailers).\u00a0 You can driver interstate or intrastate&#8230;which loads are good for you, and which loads make the most money?<\/p>\n<p>For most loads brokers or shippers will want a driver to have some expierience and probably want them driving approx 4-6months of over the road experience. Other manufactures need their loads deliveried ASAP and will let a driver haul a load with little experience.<\/p>\n<p>A good place to start is with the <a title=\"New Drivers Checklist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ooida.com\/Education&amp;BusinessTools\/Resources\/Interviewing_the_Inter_CD.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) new drivers checklist<\/a>. Once you have got your experience under your belt you will probably have lots of questions about your next steps like What is a reasonable\/acceptable starting pay per mileage? or what other expenses you may have as a owner operator.<\/p>\n<p>To find new loads you can get wireless access at truck stops an get on a\u00a0<a title=\"find truck loads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\" target=\"_blank\">trucking loadboards<\/a> to find available loads. <a title=\"truck loads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\" target=\"_blank\">FindFreightLoads.com <\/a>is a great loadboard that will dispatch loads over the phone so you dont need a computer or internet access when your over the road.<\/p>\n<p>Another great place to start when your a new owner operator is <a title=\"trucking forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truckersforum.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">trucking forums<\/a>, they are a great place for newbies and experienced drivers give great feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So your thinking of becoming a truck driver but dont know where to start? There are many types of trailers and loads you can haul from 48ft flatbed trailers to Reefer trailers to smaller 24-26ft straight truck (bobtail trailers).\u00a0 You can driver interstate or intrastate&#8230;which loads are good for you, and which loads make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13,159,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}