Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Thank you @freightwipper !

I'll add another mind blowing statement here for the day. I am still in a lease purchase program from big bad evil Prime. I have 1.5 years left on the lease for the tractor and I have been successful as you have all seen. Then once that lease is up I'll roll it in to a purchase and have the remaining balance paid off in a year. So it will have taken me 4 years to pay for this tractor in full.

So all those who say the system is rigged against the driver, I am living proof that you can be successful if you have a plan.

As Zig says, "Failure to plan is a plan to fail!"

 

Right on man makes a ton of sense

The scary thing is the number of fresh authority guys that DO sign on for those services that they get bombarded with after you get your packet. I too couldn't believe the sheer amount of nonsense that came our way when we established ours.

 

i know prime will allow you to take a truck to another carrier, but they allowed you to get your own authority?

 

Yep, they did.

 

Has the tool man called yet?

 

LOL, actually he called me just this Friday. That's scary that you know that!

 

Hard work and ambition. What a noble idea! At least the past few days of reading have taught you how to be a victim if you ever need to fall back on that. Something tells me you won't. Congrats and good luck. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

 

"This statement just screams of an under educated"

I have a master's in mathematics. I used to teach calculus and statistics.
What is your education?

"Because of that I've been able to put together a loop that is paying me $7,000 a week on 3500 miles and the load each direction is less then 15k lbs."

"Oh yeah, that's getting me home every weekend as well."

"I am still in a lease purchase program from big bad evil Prime. I have 1.5 years left on the lease for the tractor and I have been successful as you have all seen."

That is called BS, my friend, you know that, right?

 

They were many, now it's one. Which one?

 

"Thanks to regulations, our hours of service not only got screwed up from a system that worked great for decades, it's now got even more screwed up with electronic monitoring"

So, you think you should be able to drive as many hours as you want without a break?

It is true a lot of regulations are not good. Because lobbying( corruption) and the fact the people
making the regulations don't have any driving experience. Which doesn't mean I don't need GOOD
regulations.