I’m working, but not working as much. I’ve had a few things cancel / reschedule / underbid on, all with the same result. I needed something else. The trip I’m on is short, but it pays well. A lot of times because of minimum charges, short hauls will pay better than longer trips. This is only 500 miles, but it’s paying over $2.00. I picked it up Friday afternoon and can’t deliver until Monday morning.

I actually have another trip scheduled to pick up on Monday that’s only 800 miles, but because of all the pickups and loading time, it takes four days to finish it. But it’s better than sitting for four days. I should be able to decent fuel mileage and shouldn’t have to get any more fuel until the middle of next week, instead of the normal every other day.

I haven’t been reading any of the trucking news lately, it’s too depressing and no one really knows what’s going to happen, but I have a few ideas that need some research before I put anything over at Life on the Road. Since I have all of this spare time between trips and even during some trips, I’ve been learning about building websites, the best ways to get listed in search engines and hopefully the best ways to make some money. There are a ton of websites that will sell you their techniques on making money. Kind of like all of the real estate buying / flipping and stock buying ads you hear on the radio. The only way someone makes their money is off the backs of others. After sifting the information from the scams, I’ve got a few ideas.

The bottom line here is that I’m going to be putting more ads up on Adventures in Trucking, but there are ways to show some people ads and not show other people ads. Since I’m experimenting (learning) with Adventures in Trucking, the goal is for regular readers to not see ads, or at least only a few select ads. You could subscribe to the feed or the newsletter, click on an orange icon under Subscribe and you won’t see any ads, at least not for awhile. I’m also going to be changing a few things so the site may look a little different but not by much, but it may make a big difference in how search engines see it.

And since Adventures in Trucking already ranks really well on a lot of trucking related search terms, I may even open up a few small square (125×125) ads on the top of the side bar. Even to Driver Job sites, which I’ve turned down before, but will reconsider.