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Macon, IL | No offense but I can make a lot more money at my day job than I can driving a semi. Also I don't have CDL myself. If it were only about $ I should hire out my whole farm and work more in the office-but I am sure that would get me (justifiably) called a "lazy farmer".
Splitting my time between farm and job has allowed my farm to grow significantly over the past couple decades-not sure I could have done that just supervising and texting people orders-its been good to my family. I am 100% sure we are much better off financially having the farm operation as well as the day job-will undoubtedly allow me to retire earlier and focus 100% on farming. I do 90% of my own wrenching-so I prefer to be close to combine and catch the things early-fix, etc. And yea, I enjoy the hell out of it. I guess if you are living your life around istant ROI and $ rate I should never have started farming-some told me that but damn glad I didn't listen-long term thinking wins in the end.
I don't have a combine driver that I trust to run more than a few hours-he just doesn't have the experience.
I have 5 reliable tandem truck drivers i can call any day-0 semi drivers. Kinda dumb not to utilize those guys.
Ever consider maybe every operation isn't exactly like yours? Different constraints, etc.?
Edited by pbutler 12/26/2023 11:39
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Good base for Tandem
