How did you get your start as O/O?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by outerspacehillbilly, Nov 23, 2009.

  1. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    My brother made a deal with me that if he bought a truck and I ran it, that in two years I would be 25% owner and free to either stay with it or walk away.

    Around 2 yrs and 8 months I bought him out. About 6 months after that I got the "grass is greener" idea going on. Got stupid and sold the truck.
     
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  3. outerspacehillbilly

    outerspacehillbilly "Instigator of the Legend"

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    Great story Coal Bucket. Thanks to everybody for sharing. Anymore out there keep em coming.
     
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  4. Working Class Patriot

    Working Class Patriot Road Train Member

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    Coal Bucket...
    The thing I am most impressed with you is the fact you didn't become a "Bottom-feeder".....If enough guys "bid the economy"..."Bottom-feeders" would fold up and die.....

    Thanks for the story and just hang in there...you made it before...you know what to do...
     
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  5. 2fuzy

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    I kinda fell into it the small O/O I worked for told the lease company to go to #### and the needed someone to manage the account he left and as I was the only one that knew it
    I ended up filling his shoes and I owe him a lot of thanks for the help
    well as I did a good job tending to the account I ended up with a second leased truck as it had grown and the kinda teamed up with another O/O in order to take on more work and I am not doing that again
    well then the lease company gets sucked up by corprate sharks and starts to go to hell as they shift more and more cost on to the O/Os but then comes a wonderful gravy run that they couldn't do with there daycab fleet so I drag out the old FLD that my Dad bought to pull is camper and run the hell out of it on the gravy and then bought to more trucks to run the gravy then one of my best drivers who has one flaw in his right foot could not be in a truck anymore so I opened up a shop so he could keep working and I could dodge the labor rate at the big boys and make a bit on the side
    Well now the gravy is over and there was only operating at a loss without it I am going on my own authority with my three trucks even though the lease company did its best to kill me off
    My tanks are on the way so with a bit of luck and sweat all should be well

    things I have learned along the way own your equipment
     
  6. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Hows the mobile service working out for you? I see your truck around town and often wonder if its making its own way for you.


    When you go independent are you staying in the same biz or trying some thing else?
     
  7. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Oh and I hear that the current company is about to be bought out by another company out of Canada.
     
  8. 2fuzy

    2fuzy Road Train Member

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    it fell through

    the shop is alright but it is not quite pulling its own weight yet I am learning to speak a couple other languages though

    I am trying to keep at the patch but keep it under your hat please as I am trying to fly under the rader until the big yellow bugger hits the LACT
     
  9. 2fuzy

    2fuzy Road Train Member

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    what are you up to nowdays?
     
  10. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I've been doing foreclosure property preservation since March. Full time since April. My back up plan was to be a fill in driver for Petera during the winter slow down. Well wouldn't you know, the "geniuses" in TX pulled me out of the system even tho they were told not to.
    So now that work has REALLY slowed down since the last week of OCT I'm stuck with having to fill out the inch thick application again. I have not missed driving in the least little bit. And really DO NOT want to go back to it. But I want to have my pickup or house repoed worse than I don't want to drive a truck.


    Good luck on going independent. I hope it works for you, and I don't know who you are. :biggrin_25525: :biggrin_25525: Just some dude I saw on the internet. :D

    Remember when John rolled his truck in that snow storm in April? I drove that truck the week before. That was the last time I jammed a gear. Haven't missed it at all.

    I have a feeling that I'm about to get real busy apart from driving for Petera. In the last 30 days I've spread my name around every where I can and just signed up with one new company. I have a couple more nibbling at the bait. I've got my own insurance so that I can work for more than just one company. I hear rumors that after the first of the yr all hell will break loose in this biz since every body has been slow for a couple of months.
     
  11. 2fuzy

    2fuzy Road Train Member

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    if ya are looking for fill in work stop by the shop I might need a fill in driver
    as I can't drive more then one at a time

    two blocks west of missile drive on Lincoln way one block south

    and yes I think it is gonna get real busy real fast after the first I could tell ya why but then I would have to ----
     
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