Closing up shop, or thinking about it?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Midwest Trucker, Aug 28, 2022.

What’s your situation in todays trucking climate?

  1. Still in business and plan to keep going.

    50.7%
  2. Still in business but it’s touch and go, we’ll see.

    9.6%
  3. I sold out, just couldn’t make it work anymore

    4.8%
  4. I’m a company driver, and glad I didn’t make the jump

    15.8%
  5. Owner op for life, ride or die!

    21.2%
  6. Other: Retirement or something else. Explain

    8.9%
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  1. GYPSY65

    GYPSY65 Road Train Member

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    Im pretty sure 4 days labor would have been way less than 3 weeks loss of revenue
     
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  3. GYPSY65

    GYPSY65 Road Train Member

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    @God prefers Diesels

    Not sure how you decipher my posts at times??

    Spellcheck totally changes words and I delete saved words all the time in my phone

    I usually have to edit posts after I read them
     
  4. jamespmack

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    All I wanted to do as a kid. Then I got smart. Didnt wanna waste my life like the oldman. I was gonna build hot rods and race cars. Which I have, but I found my skill better paying working on trucks. Short story, I fought it till about 30 years old. I was not gonna be a trucker. 31 I bought a truck. Figired if I could run other peoples businesses, I could run my own. Made me forth generation independent. There are ups and downs. Not were I wanna be yet. But to honest, at this point I'd make a really sheety employee. So we are trucking. Building trucks and trailers out of rocks and sticks because its the DNA ingrained in me. I can't even stop it at this point. And its exactly what I wanted to do at a young age. Only hope I make them oldmen proud, someday.
     
  5. bzinger

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    To be honest yeah my carriers rate are still good and have always made money here but as some have mentioned here the flat on the floor don't give a dam hooray for me jerks that inhabit the roads these days have made this job miserable.
    I keep hoping these accident prone morons will become uninsurable but they seem to multiply by the day !
    At 35 years in I'd retire if I could and have slowed way down but will never be able to fully retire .
    I hope this downturn kills off the bone heads that get a dot number they can't even get on the truck without being half upside down and a company name like yopo etc ....running 50 mph down 80 in Nebraska tapping their brakes and 20 miles down the road passes me doing 75 weaving around looking at a phone .
    Same people that sit at fuel islands and block dock doors .
    Sad to say but everytime I see these jerks in a ditch I think " good we got rid of another one "
    Rant over .
     
  6. God prefers Diesels

    God prefers Diesels Road Train Member

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    I mix about a gram of meth into a bottle of Yoo-hoo before I read them. :p
     
  7. Last Call

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    You.need to mix that meth in a can of Red Bull.
    . That's the issue ! ..lol
     
  8. God prefers Diesels

    God prefers Diesels Road Train Member

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    Right here. Like four bucks at Walmart, and I can turn a whole case of water into energy drinks. And you can make them as strong as you want.

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  9. Last Call

    Last Call Road Train Member

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    Is that pancake syrup ?
     
  10. God prefers Diesels

    God prefers Diesels Road Train Member

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    It's a knockoff of the brand "Mio".
     
  11. Last Call

    Last Call Road Train Member

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    By God I never thought about that.. that's a good idea
     
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