6 of one, half a dozen of another.
continence plays an important part for the inexperienced person. however here is where the company can take advantage of the newbie.
being on your own, lends itself to success, or failure, but then too, so does leasing with someone.
you can control your own destiny, income, and customer growth, being on your own
when someone has control over you, and your equipment, well, they got you by the "short hairs"
keep searching, something better may be out there, if not, well good luck, i do wish you well.
lease-on deal I was looking at
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Fair enough.
I'll see what my impression is after meeting the guy...possibly tomorrow. He lives in the next county over about 50 miles from me, so close enough to be worth the trip to go figure out who I'd be dealing with. Again would be looking at this as a "feet-wet" opportunity. I did that for 6 months 10 years ago working for 25 cents a mile at my first rodeo out of driving school. It was valuable experience even if a crap deal. -
He's not looking for any money up front and said he's had a lot of guys try it for 2-3 months and walk away after deciding it wasn't for them. With a new guy starting out he said he advances the week's fuel, insurance and trailer rental fee and deducts it afterwards on the week's settlement, so no money comes out of my pocket. Fuel is on a company Comdata card that reloads back to $400 daily and some places have discounts. He said he had a tarp I could use and would get a kingpin adapter for the trailer so I could use my 5th wheel. We had a bit of an argument as to whether you'd still have to use the safety chains if the gooseneck coupler is swapped out for a kingpin/5th wheel coupler. I said I don't think so...that's only for ball or pintle hook connections right?
Rest of the flatbedding gear needed to get going is looking like a $500-600 bill I get to foot. (Anybody have chains, binders and 2" straps to sell?) Also I have to park the trailer somewhere when not being used, but I think I've got a solution for that...30 foot trailer isn't realistically going to be parked at my house and he doesn't have a yard or anything I can leave it at. -
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If this is really what you want to do then give it a shot and get some experience.Last edited: Aug 28, 2022
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I think it's looking more like an opportunity I probably shouldn't pass on and then hope for some luck after that. There's always that "what the hell have I gotten myself into" feeling that hits you any time you consider venturing out into something new and intimidating where there's some amount of risk involved. First time I hooked onto a brand new travel trailer to deliver in my little truck that I built it was one of those moments. That first time I pulled out onto a busy public roadway by myself with a Fuller transmission and a loaded 53 footer or the first time a paying customer climbed into the cab when I drove taxi in New York, there is always that surreal "oh crap" moment that happens when it's your first rodeo and you're wondering how obvious it is. Another one of those moments is coming since I don't have a lot of open deck experience. Have hauled some bundles of steel and plastic culvert pipe on a gooseneck a few times at a seasonal job I had once at an agronomy company but that's about it.
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I've been looking around for prices on gear. Lot's variation there on price. Menards had 20 ft 5/16 transport chain with the hooks on the end for $54.99 each and that about the best I've seen on those. Straps are funny...the 2" 27 footers I've seen as cheap as $11.99 each but add that extra 3 feet on for a 30 footer and for some reason the price goes up to $25-30 each which seems high considering I'd need 10 of them. Racheting binders I've seen nowhere on local shelves but I bet I know where I can get those. I'm guessing those are $40-50 apiece and I'd need 4.Lite bug Thanks this. -
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If it's a 14k or better trailer that would likely be a problem since I have a 12.5k truck. 13.5k would be the limit for non CDL. (He has a 12k and a 13k unit he said). Not sure what his attitude about a CDL setup would be. Probably wouldn't want to deal with it because of the extra paperwork and random drug testing required. I can understand it not being worth the trouble on a rig that's only 500-1000 lbs over the CDL threshold. I know some trailer mfgs will de-rate or re-rate a trailer after it's in service, and possibly PJ is one of them. decent price though and pretty close to me. Craigslist?
More than likely I will end up just shopping hard for the best price on new stuff so I know there's nothing sketchy going on there. If his tarp is okay to use that would save me a least a couple hundred bucks though.Last edited: Aug 28, 2022
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