Hiring Drivers (2-10 Trucks), do you use a service?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Jodymcgrody, Nov 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM.

  1. TurkeyCreekJackJohnson

    TurkeyCreekJackJohnson Medium Load Member

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    Buy me a brand new truck to my spec, no inward camera, and few other nit-noid things and I'll sign on as your 1st driver.
     
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  3. Jodymcgrody

    Jodymcgrody Bobtail Member

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    If by new you mean a 2023 Cascadia with a deer guard and apu, in your choice of purple, no problem.
    edit: yeah, no naked butt cameras period.
     
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  4. TurkeyCreekJackJohnson

    TurkeyCreekJackJohnson Medium Load Member

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    I didn't say 2023 Cascadia with a deer guard and apu, in my choice of purple. I said, buy me a brand new truck to my spec.
     
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  5. Jodymcgrody

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    My apologies. I'm afraid I am limited in what I can offer, beyond to myself. If anyone gets a spec'd truck it would be me. And I was seriously looking at a $15,000 truck and wondering how far I'd get in it. So, there's that.
    edit: but it did have an apu and wasn't purple.
    edited out the gayness
     
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  6. TurkeyCreekJackJohnson

    TurkeyCreekJackJohnson Medium Load Member

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    "And I was seriously looking at a $15,000 truck and wondering how far I'd get in it."
     
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  7. Sons Hero

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    If you buy 10, $15,000 trucks, I will help the banker laugh at you. This may not be what you are wanting to hear, but it’s what I know as a fact. You WILL fail if you buy multiple trucks, multiple trailers, hire multiple drivers and work the spot market. Not a chance you’d make it, insurance alone would kill you. Spot market rates would help kill you. So, my idea, you buy one (1) truck, run it yourself for 5 years, and reevaluate.
     
  8. Sons Hero

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    And, for what it’s worth, I paid 4,000 for my first truck, it made me a good bit of income, but it ate a lot of it all by itself the first year. Treated me a lot better after that, but if you are not mechanically inclined, I don’t recommend it
     
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  9. Albertaflatbed

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    Why would you hire drivers through a service?

    You are much better off to do the hiring yourself so you know who you are getting, and can make sure they are the person you want behind the wheel of one of your trucks.
    After all these drivers can quickly bankrupt you if they are not capable drivers.
     
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  10. Jodymcgrody

    Jodymcgrody Bobtail Member

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    The initial idea was, and still is, to buy trucks for power only to run under Prime Power Only, which requires 2023 trucks. Probably moving to 2024 before too long. And to buy more than one and hire drivers for the "more than one" trucks for reasons already sprayed.
    Buying a $15,000 truck is just straight "it could be done" territory. It's a thought experiment. But, it still could be done, though I doubt I'd be able to get a sandwich financed with it as collateral.
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    "Why would you hire drivers through a service?

    You are much better off to do the hiring yourself so you know who you are getting, and can make sure they are the person you want behind the wheel of one of your trucks.
    After all these drivers can quickly bankrupt you if they are not capable drivers."
    This was the original reason I posted this thread. How do you hire drivers? What is your experiences, best places to look, checking their record, etc.
     
  11. Jodymcgrody

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    Imagine taking your $15,000 truck to the shop.
    It would be like a scene straight from "Old Yeller"
     
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