No doubt!
When I was a regional guy, I'd almost see the ex-freight guys like gods.
I remember landing after shooting an approach to minimums in KMKE, hearing the constant pranging of ice flying off of the propellers as it struck the fuselage and being glad that the Beechcraft 1900 (with EFIS, weather radar and all of the ice protection extras) pulled through.
Then I'd see this guy landing a Beech Baron, single pilot, with a bin full of boxes, no de-ice boots or radar, happily taxi towards the cargo pad.
Being from California, I was scared to death of icing conditions but some of my first few former-freight captains "de-fanged" the Wisconsin winters and helped me learn to work with it.