Question on understanding lanes..

Know how you're gonna get out, before you go in

 

We see this a lot where people say they don’t want to get rich or care much about the money. To me this is a mistake. Why take this all on unless you want to make money or eventually get rich? Freedom is great but unless your doing very well then you’ll just have other freedoms taken away out of necessity to pay the bills.

 

could just be different definitions of rich too, my pretty good living I guess could be considered rich to someone else and I could be considered poor to someone different

was always told trucks just suck in general, you can make money with 10 of them, but then you need 9 winey c*nts to Baby sit

my goal is always to make as much as possible, but accept I’ll never be up there with musk or bezos….

 

I asked how much time the guy has as a company driver. He wants to be an o/o but if he lacks experience, it won't matter what lanes he runs, he will fail.

 

I'm going to challenge you on that statement. I never once drove for someone else - not a mile. I know several people that got their CDL, bought a truck and started hauling -- cattle, grain, potatoes, mostly.

There's more to the trucking business than trucks. If you understand the business part, adding the truck to it is not that big a deal. You probably will make some relatively expensive decisions about specs and maintenance (I know I did), but not to the point that you'll go out of business.

Someone with neither business, mechanical, nor trucking acumen will be sorely challenged, because they will make expensive decisions in all three areas, most likely.

 

Challenge me in what?

Some people are good at this, you are one of them, you seemed to have known where the money is and where it is not.

Others don't.

It is more than the need to know what lanes to operate, lanes are dependent on what you are hauling, what relationship you have with brokers/customers and so on.

Having put the cart before the horse seems to be normal, and it leads to failure and while my advice isn't always the best for a single operator, it is better to hear all different advice.

I asked a simple question to gauge his knowledge for my suggestion, that's all, without knowing what he knows, what he has experience in, it is #### near impossible to tell the guy what to look for and what to watch out for.

 

Generally speaking, the Midwest tends to be a very good place to operate.
Good luck

 

One of the reasons you are getting poor responses is that you’re not asking a specific enough question.

What equipment? Flatbed and reefer are two entirely different animals, as is food grade tanker or a walking floor agricultural trailer.

How do you want to run? Home daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly?

Do you like dedicated, 48 states, line haul, yes / no on New York, Phoenix in July, PNW in winter? Canada, or no?

This industry is too varied for general questions to get anything more than general answers.