I feel pretty independent regardless of what others say. I come in when I feel like it, I send my drivers out, we have meetings once or twice a week, I run maintenance on my trucks regularly, we get our job done without a hitch 99.8% of the time, they don't create much of any waves with me and I don't with them unless they same something stupid, now a days I am home with my family from roughly 10AM-6AM the next day. My manager usually only works 2-5 hours a day besides the 4 hours we bs at the terminal.
Do feel pretty independent.