Originally Posted by
ironbutt57
its a very serious and lucrative business
When I cut my teeth in that game in the mid seventies it was lucrative only if you ignored the downtime. The fixed expenses keep accumulating, waiting for the next call from a panicked auto cargo coordinator. Back then you could make a ton of money quickly, and then lose it just as fast when things tapered off. We used to hope for rail strikes, interstate closures and snowstorms.
Happy to no longer fly anything with a DC, L or CV prefix. Or for that matter fly anything in Great Lakes wx systems.