Do you have a bsns plan you can share w/ me &/or give me advice?

If there are any owner operators that have done a business plan that have some insight or valuable content to add, would like to hear from those folks. Thanks

 

Are you an owner operator with experience in writing business plans?

To answer your question above, studying some business plans that others have put together and then asking them if they stuck to their business plan, why or why not, and what has been their success around their business model based off the business plan would be a great place to continue researching. If I can gain access to a bunch of business plans I can gauge better the answers to many of those questions you asked and will give me an enormous amount of insight and information.

The rest of the questions will only open the door for judgement and based off some of the stupid responses I have seen in this thread alone already and other folks posting on this forum and other forums, it only will lead to more judgement and not helpful advise. Some of the questions you asked I don’t know the answers to and why I am looking for business plans to study, research, and see success rates based on those. I have seen tons of advice and opinions on things over the past few years in reading up on this stuff but I don’t ever see anyone talking about business plans. When I inquired with a company about financing on a truck it was the very first thing they asked for/about.

Yes I have a CDL, I have all my endorsements, not much experience, I have an education in business, and not a young man. I am familiar with the industry and know it’s currently in a down swing, but truck prices are also in a downswing and right now is a good time to buy one.

If given a choice I don’t want to work for other folks and prefer to work for myself, even if there is a lot of risk involved. I don’t have anything to lose outside of a good credit score if things go bad, and to me it’s worth the risk if I can pull it off and hang in until the roller coaster heads back up.

I have personally met folks that had zero experience in trucking, just obtained their CDL, and learned and did everything by the seat of their pants, including zero input or reading forums like this, no research, and have found success.

I am not looking for advice on why it shouldn’t be done or why it can’t be done. There is TONS of opinions like that on every forum out there surrounding trucking. I am just brainstorming, asking questions, and trying to find my own path and not dictate it on what everyone’s opinion is. I would especially like to hear from folks who swam upstream against the current and advice and made it.