Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

If I haven't said it before: EXCELLENT thread, double yellow! Thank you so much for sharing what you have.

May I ask why you are so keen to leave the road? If it has to do with California, would you be staying if you were based out of, say, the Midwest?

Again, thank you!!

 

It aint easy thats for sure. Most of the times in the couple first years you wonder if its even worth it. Cant even remember how many times I wanted to just let go of all the headhaches.

Wanting to run as efficient as possible makes it even harder...

My brother is out this year, took 1 year off, sold his house, car, all of his belonging go buy a boat and go across the world. For him it seems like the only way to find out if he wants to stay in the company with me or choose another way. Its easy to miss it at first, habits, routine, but as time goes by hes going to find out what he really wants.

I personaly think that 1 truck o/o are going to dissapear. Small, medium and mega are going to stay.

I have alot of respect for you DY. In the end, only you know what is going to make you happy, if its taking another route,so be it. Just dont let it run you down.

 

I haven't been satisfied with a year yet and my gross revenue keeps going down every year. This year sucked. Yeah it's great working 4 or 5 months but I'd really prefer to be working twice as much or more. But if it's not paying then I just don't see the point. Why the heck should I bust my balls so everyone else can get rich? Trucking is such a love/hate thing for me but like one of our mutual friends said a while back, seems like you always give it 110% but still come up short. Gets old especially in a year like 2015.

 

Trucking is like farming. You deal with three or four so so years just to be in the game when you have the bumper crop year.

 

Kinda hard to knock the year if one of your expenses was a inframe. You take that out of the pic and your net profit looks pretty strong.

 

Hmmm, spyder, the more I read these threads. The better I feel. I just 2ent back. And ran across a bunch of postings by some of the guys from different threads from as far back as 2011 2012 , some say they were killing it back then, couple even said they wouldn't run for what i was running for. Meanwhile fast forward to 3 years later, I have had rise in gross and net revenues while lessening the miles ran each year, in fact it looks like net will be up around 18k, and consider i did a 28,807.25 caterpillar platinum overhaul uh n August. After 35 years I am past the early burnout stage, I remember feeling just like DY years ago. Sometimes it is possible to do well without having authority, sometimes its possible to do just as well leased. Its tough. I so much like being able to park it without watching the insurance end other stuff keep ticking. Dy. , its going to be tough to hang in there if you are set in your mind of getting out Because of eld, it will be counter productive. I personally dont see regulations being any worse than 35 years ago,

 

They been saying one truck guys are gonna disappear since my first day driving and that was 35 years ago, I can only laugh

 

IF shippers got off their high horses and used more independents...........It would make life so much easier..AND their shipments would be in better hands...


Does anyone approximately know what the ratio is with volume shippers and megas with safe-ontime service/vs/Late-Claim ridden deliveries?

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