Newbie Team Driver Wannabees - Can We Do This?

I think so ... maybe we'll have to look for it on DVD.

 

We will be looking into this and reading all we can find on the subject while we're getting our driving experience as company drivers.

 

There is a live Owner/Operator seminar scheduled today, here is a link:

http://www.overdriveonline.com/owner-operator-seminar-to-be-live-on-website/

 

Yes, it is, glad I found it.

I actually sat through the live seminar today for two hours. Very informative for me since I have so much to learn about this industry. I took a lot of notes, learned quite a lot from the first speaker, Richard, and wished he had more time to finish his portion of the seminar.

My only complaint is that the last speaker, Kevin, drove me nuts repeating himself over and over again, when I just wanted him to GET TO THE POINT and tell us what he kept saying he was going to tell us! OMG! I got the feeling that he only had prepared about 15-20 minutes of real info, but since he was scheduled to speak for an hour, he dragged it along. I understand that he's a radio personality (?) and I know that when you have a radio show you need to keep talking so there is no "dead airtime", but this wasn't radio, this was live and it drove me crazy. And then, toward the end of his talk, he gave a sales pitch for a 5 hour seminar he is teaching in Sept on how to increase revenue and decrease costs and I thought, NO WAY can I sit through him repeating himself and not getting to the point for 5 straight hours! And pay him $1200 to boot. But. I admit that I actually got some good info from him for about 15 minutes of his hour on stage. Not bad for free.

So now I have to look up things like rates and lanes, load boards, how to control fuel mileage and maintenance costs, stuff like that. We have so much to learn, but we'll get there.

 

Finally figured out how to add pictures to an album in my profile. Now you can see who you're talking to ... and cute pics of my dog.

 

Hey, I'm still here! Nice to know someone actually missed me!

My husband was on a trip, got done up in Detroit at DTW a couple days ago. I packed up myself and my dog and drove up there to pick him up at the airport.

Interesting how life goes sometimes, how it takes off in different directions when you least expect it. Back in April my husband's 83 yr old mother was moved to an assisted living apartment with the help of my husband's brother and his wife. Mom had been living in the same house since 1956, a small Cape Cod up in Michigan in a cozy little neighborhood. Her house sat empty after she was moved into her new apartment at assisted living and nothing had been done for 4 weeks so she called us for help and she was crying, saying she needed to sell the house so she could afford to live in her new place and the older brother said he was done, not going to take care of it. So we took time off work without pay, hitched up the travel trailer, towed it up to MI, parked it in her driveway at the house and spent 8 days up there, moving things out of it, cleaning it and preparing it to be listed for sale on the MLS. We had no help, my husband's only brother and his wife refused to help us so we just did it all ourselves, working from early morning to late at night to get the job done. When we left for home 8 days later, the house was empty, clean and had a realtor's sign planted in the front yard.

Mom has Parkinson's and to add insult to injury, she fell and broke her hip last Mother's day (of all days, right?) and she is just now back in her apartment again after a long time in the hospital and then rehab. Since my husband got done in Detroit and his mother lives near that city, we decided to stay overnight and visit with her. And her house finally sold so she got her check and is feeling comfortable that she can pay her bills at Assisted living.

So that's where we were on the weekend, up in Michigan and then driving back home, hauling a U-Haul trailer full of Mom's grandma's old dishes, old family photo albums, antique furniture that Mom cannot let go of, antique china and all kinds of things that she kept for 60 plus years and we just cannot figure out what to do with. Today we took all of that stuff and a couple of loads of our things from our house to the storage unit we rented across town. Tomorrow we will take another load and then my husband has to go back to work and I will be hauling stuff alone for 4 days, trying to get this house empty so we can list it for sale, while he finishes his duty at his current job. He has 2 more trips before he's done flying. If he doesn't complete his trips he will not qualify for the severance pkg, so he keeps on flying. Interesting, when I took him to the airport for this last trip he commented that "this flying thing is just getting in my way, I've already moved on", meaning into trucking. That's a good attitude, he's moving forward and not looking back.

So we moved his Mom out of her house last April and never, ever thought we'd be doing the same thing with our own house a few months later! I guess it was practice for the real thing. At least we know what to do and we found out that we're pretty good at making things happen pretty quickly when we need to.

Yes, we learned some things about trucking this weekend too. Will get to that next.