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RIDGERUNNER!!!!!!!!!1 That's MY job! You already have one!

=P jk.

 

I'll not quibble...I just graduated a little over a week ago and am still waiting for the assignment of a DT!!

I don't need alot of hometime...I need to get working so I can start paying on these bills I've fallen behind on AND get some REALROAD experience under my belt.

 

I do indeed...but there is always room for improvement.
Good luck, I'm not sure I'm interested anyway...but I'm willing to hear what he has to say. (notarps4me made a statement a few weeks back that got me thinking...running the truck like it is his, he has all the perks of an O/O with none of the headaches...and still gets the bills paid)

As long as both parties make money...sounds like a sweet deal to me.

 

A grand for being out 5 days is not asking for too much. Let alone for flatbedding. I just quit a dry van company where they paid me about that, I quit not because of the money but because of all the B.S they put me though.

 

if you have driver after driver after driver after driver after driver work for a few weeks/months and then quit, I would say the job/company is the issue, NOT the driver(s.) as bad as it is right now, no one is their right mind would quit an otherwise good job unless they came to the conclusion that they'd be better off shoveling french fries.

some drivers try to BS themselves into believing they're making good money - 32 cents per mile # 65 miles an hour = $20.80 an hour, right? but they're only fooling themselves. if you look at it more realistically - $600 a week (if you're lucky,) divided by 85 hours (70 hours - 40 hours = 30 hours overtime) = $7.05 an hour. and then you hear about people sitting 2 or 3 days waiting on a load and bringing home $200-300 a week.

by the way, if you can't follow the math on this, you're not ready to drive a truck. in fact, you might not even be ready to shovel french fries. you could probably run the register though - they have pictures on the buttons with the menu items now, I believe.

 

I agree, i'd also be interested in doing something like this. I'm sorta tired of the company politics to be quite honest with you, although no matter what you do you will always have to deal with politics to some degree, right now just isn't the great time to buy a truck unfortunately.

 

I was one of those people for a long time, Cheif. Took a few months being out of the truck, and dealing with my dad who's a union car hauler who makes 1.11 a mile and stays in a hotel etc. to realize just how screwed alot of people in this industry are getting. I did well with TMC, but looking back at what i had to deal with.. Meh, not so sure it was really worth what i was making to be quite frank.

 

Hey Torch, I drove flats for DHP (Diamond Hill Plywood) for 2 years, Im currently wanting to get back into trucking, but I hate tarps, but willing to hear an offer. I live in Va. Beach. (which I know is not prime freight lanes, but hey if your looking, I wont rob ya.

 

I'm working for an o/o leased on to a large company. I like the freedom and the owner is really cool, still away to go to get to solid pay and miles, but I see opportunities here that I didn't have as a co driver.

 

I live 60 miles from your stated location. I would be interested in speaking with you.