Finally got my own truck

Do you think he can get closer to his goals with this kind of truck payment? I'm not trying to be negative here, but the facts are, if he needs $6000 / week, every week, for 5 years, he will burn out before 3 years. Living in a truck, to pay for a truck, is not living. Seriously, am I the only one that thinks he is doomed. And I hate saying that, we need more good O/O's out here but.........

I'm really curious of everyone's thoughts on this, and if we need to move this convo to another thread, so be it. I don't want to discourage wonderboy, but I think these are things other noobs need to think about

 

I don't think the problem is the truck payment I think it's the dry van. I'm. It not saying that all dry van freight is cheap but most is until you can get regular brokers or something along that line that give you better rates. My truck payment is 2400 a month insurance runs me another 1300 bucks I pull a reefer with my own authority and last year I only worked 172 days.

 

He is not doomed, but chose a hard way to go. The idea of getting a new 150k truck scares me, I would not personally do it myself.
If he gets his own numbers, he still can be home every weekend, net 2k and make payments on the truck. But it does seem that he just wants to live in the truck, probably because it's still new and he is overwhelmed right now with everything.
I also don't see the reason why Boywander and RollinCoal for example, don't get their own MC's since they are booking their own freight anyways.

 

I gotta ask man. I enjoy reading this thread but since you like Florida so much why not run reefer?

I know it can be a pain at times but Kentucky to Florida which you seem you like is paying 2.80 a mile. That seems almost double what your making with van.

You are young and few reefer noises and multi drops couldn't be that bad.

Just a thought. Not sure what your story is. @rollin coal runs reefer I think and loves it.

Good luck

 

I have absolutely no sympathy for the OP. Go back and reread what he started. Now he is burned out and is taking more time off that he can not afford. I see a repo truck in the future. Where is @nax ? The OP needs some encouragement. Btw, table tennis? Sounds more like a white collar sport. But I know nothing. My blue collar fits me well.

 

MC# could mean additional 1k a month of insurance. The 12% including dispatch assistance and well established MC# may be worth it. Boywander does better than I getting rates and making moves to where the hotter zones are. It is too early in this calendar year to draw any conclusions, jumping equipment may do little good now. I'd keep at it at least one year before changing anything. I would screw March 31 and play pingpong too.

 

A few days of table tennis, brothers and sisters, beer, girls and total oblivion....the burn out syndrome disappears.

 

It's going to take time to adjust and learn. Let's just hope you can Outlast the slow,low freight.

 

Don't look at it by what you need to make per week look at the longer term of say a month. There's bad weeks and good weeks in the end you will be fine op just stay calm and taking a few days off is not going to bankrupt you.