Its great to see both sides of people who have been there and done it, signing up for a 2/3 yr deal puts you imo in a massive rut, forcing you to almost stay at the bottom taking what you can get, working the truck, sometimes just to break even.
Because you have to make those payments. It gives you little freedom to pick and choose what you do, when and for how much.
Im under no illusion that new starts have to start at the bottom, take what they can get etc. But that doesnt meen we have to stay there.
If i wanted everything guarenteed id go and be a franchise haulier. But that would take away the freedom to do what i want with my truck, which is the exact reason why it makes it appealing to me to be a o/d.