Leased on Owner Op Ideas

Point well taken. If you can earn a PROFIT on top of what you can earn on that of an employee driver you are closer to a business. Would someone pay you to purchase your business is another check in the column of is it a business or is it a job.

 

stick to your side of the contract, I'll stick to my side of the contract. That's it. If the contract isn't profitable for one side or the other, we can part ways.

and ALWAYS remember...I don't work FOR you! I work WITH you. This is a contractual partnership. The moment you try to treat me like an employee, I'm out the door. I have ONE boss. Me. I make the final call on my business. I own the mistakes, and celebrate the successes on my own.

 

Thus mindset is one of the biggest problems in the trucking industry.

 

No, if you work under my numbers, you work for me. Period. That's a big deal. You make
one mistake, I can go out of business because you.

 

There is a reason why many larger companies that say “no force dispatch”. The headaches created by O/O’s if they are disgruntled later is to much risk.

 

All the time every time some are going broke , some are treading water , some are doing well and a few ( 4 that I know of) are on the Forbes billionaire list. My company is shrinking there power unit count by about 30% and they would love to drop there trailer count by 40%. Lots of parked equipment there.

 

Deal. I don't work for you.

My equipment, my risk. And MY rules.