I agree entirely. I have looked into buying a poultry farm down in Missouri a few years back. Quarter million is a cheap farm. And a decent size row crop farm, a new combine is a quarter million without the grain head on it. Try starting a decent bar. In some areas of the country just the liquor license will run more than a good used semi tractor. If you wanted to start a McDonalds restaraunt, and be a burger flipper, it will take more than a half million all told. I cant think of too many businesses you can start, where you can make a decent living first year out, for cheaper than starting in this one. Just shop as wisely as possible for the truck, pray for a little luck, and go for it. Sorry, I couldn't resist adding in the Burger Flipper comment. It seems common in many threads on TTR to say burger flipping is a good alternative to truck driving.
Is it worth it, finanically speaking, to O/O...???
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Two different worlds: local courier work, OTR car-hauling work.
What I left was the former, where I guess I was more of a O/O leased to a company and not an independent O/O. The rates for local home-everyday courier work have similarly to the trucking industry rates, remained stagnant, or worse.
Meanwhile, insurance and fuel prices have gone to the moon. There are no load boards, or brokers, or direct shipper available to the local courier. Also, in the nine companies I worked at in eleven years, only one informed me as to what the load would pay before I saw it on my settlement statement.
Bottom line, a typical day, if I was called in for work that day, would be a simple $25 run taking me three hours and 48 miles to perform, and 20 of those miles not tax deductable because the first and last trips of my day is considered commuting.
Or, you could hit the lottery and make a whopping $75-110/day, but be sure to take out your tolls and fuel expenses, for driving 150-225 miles. Why don't you come to Chicago in a cargo van and show me how its done using these numbers?
You would be hard pressed to make antying even if you were driving an gas miser car.
What I am am prospecting is the latter--running many miles per day at a rate assured by OTR car-hauling. Deadhead miles are a variable, but so they where too in the former. Two very dissimilar business models to the objective and reasonable person's eye...I am surprise you as a 'Super O/O' could not see this.
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You would chastize the typewriter repairman O/O for not being able to make it either, so who are you crapping?
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You do things like that when you don't get any attention at home 
now back to the question at hand...... IMO I think a person that is even considering being an O/O....should have at least a couple years exp under their belt first. -
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