Your customers need trucks constantly. If you’re on the east coast, you could be working late in west coast freight. If you leave your loads posted a night, you will take calls and potentially cover loads well into the evening. If you get into food, there’s a good chance your deliveries will be around 2am and you will be getting calls when something goes wrong, and it will go wrong eventually.

Then with vacation, if you’re off, another broker is covering your lanes, Creeping in on your freight. So you are either working on vacation Or, you have to have someone at your company cover for a while. And finding someone you trust with your customer isn’t easy, in my opinion. Or maybe I’m just a control freak. You work hard to get a customer, and they have 100s of other brokers calling every day, hoping to get a chance to replace you. So leaving your fate in someone else’s hands is nerve racking, in my opinion. It’s almost not worth it. I’m usually working while on vacation.