Networking

That’s true. Hence you see all of these posts of how someone wants to buy a truck and jump in. First thing they mention is how they’ve been watching YouTube videos. They feel EDUCATED after spending a day on YouTube.

@superhauler and I once talked about a repair shop on I68 in West Virginia. For any owner operator running anywheres towards Baltimore, you want to know that shop. They are the only shop in the area that are parts suppliers and work on transmissions like the 22918B.
What many shops will try to do is to get you in their shop just to get into your pockets long enough for them to tell you that you have to take your truck to another shop. TAs are really good at this. They’re going to try to get a grand out of you WITHOUT doing any repairs. They don’t do major repairs. Thing is, if you’re one of those ‘loners who never get out of the truck ‘, you won’t know this.

 

Are you pulling open deck?

 

The reason why I ask is because heavy haul is simply HEAVY FLATBEDDING. Same federal regs. The difference is the various state regs. Before you can even talk heavy haul, you have to know flatbed like your last name.

And on top of this, there’s a whole different set of rules for SUPERLOADS.

 

How do people ever expect to grow their business without making eye contact, a firm handshake, and social skills?

 

Dry van, I want to get into heavy haul skipping flat bed as I’m hearing from broker buddies that the market is dead.

 

You can’t get into it and skip flat bed. It’s like saying I want to play pro ball, but only go straight to the big leagues. That is why most heavy haulers don’t want to talk to you. We get bombarded with stupid questions every day from people who think “ah that’s easy, look at all the money they make. I can do that.” After a while you just don’t want to talk to anybody about it.

 

And there is generally two questions they start with. “What’s that weigh” or “how much does that pay”

 

I have no clue. Even in something like an online business you would think certain social skills are required for growth. I just can’t see wanting to be involved in the growing of any business or developing a career with out them.

 

I understand now why they didn’t want to talk to you. It’s like asking special forces guys about joining them without ever going to boot camp.

Some one might say that the only thing that you learn in boot camp is push ups, sit ups and jogging. But odds are, that person has never been to boot camp either.

 

Or “how to bid”?