What’s better? Small 26 Box Truck in NYC or Big CDL truck regional?
My husband drives a 26-foot box truck in NYC for a regional moving company. A typical day involves picking up furniture at one house, dropping it off at another house a few hours away, and then driving back home to NYC around midnight. Sometimes he gets a cross country job but that happens only once a month. He works on a 40% flat-rate commission on all invoices. The company pays for gas-def-hotel stays on overnighters. From his 40% cut, he has to pay a helper to ride with him for the loading and unloading.
He’s been doing this for almost 7 years and clears about $120k a year after everything. He has his own NY state based LLC.
He just got offered a CDL job with a big national company driving their semi trucks solo, running regional routes along the East Coast (Maine to Florida). The starting pay is about the same, but other drivers he knows there are pulling in $150k–$200k a year depending on mileage and routes.
If you had to choose based on your experience, would you stick with the small truck/local and regional moves or go for the CDL with the big commercial semis?