Waiting on New Trucks thread.

For somebody with the name constant learner - seems like you already know everything there is to know.

 

I've been reading Rollin's post for years. I think he is a pretty sharp guy, and the fact he got into a pinch is a reminder it can happen to anyone. I don't think any less of him either.

 

Absolutely not true.

 

Good, than tell coal

 

I think you may be missing the big picture, either by focusing on a detail that is a moment in time, or possibly measuring another man against your own vision of success, not his. Many do that around here, so not singling you out necessarily.

Being honest, that was a hard lesson for me to learn, myself. Fortunately I had a great mentor in a former career that helped me figure it out. I'm normally not a Bible thumper, or a particularly great example of Godly living, but check this fairly quick to read analysis of Matthew 7:1. It gets at what I'm trying to express here.

 

Cool story....

 

Starting over after 13 years usually is not
something we are looking for in this
business.

Judging others with the intent to hurt them is
not one of my goals. I prefer not to have translators between me and God.

I like him too and I'm surprised how his story
is unfolding, it shouldn't be like this.

Since you are the good ones and I'm the bad
one, how do you try to help him out?

 

This is why I said consider the big picture. He's not starting over. He owns at least one trailer. Property, maybe a garage on it I don't recall. Established business relationships, customers. And the know how and initiative to recover from this setback.

It's not as dire as you make it out.

If he was someone that had only been running a year or two without all that, then yeah maybe.

That's not why I posted that. The part most relevant IMO was this, and it relates back to knowing the big picture or not.

I disagree. It's impossible to plan and prepare for every negative event. Some may be more prepared than others. In many cases, experience and resources can mitigate a crisis better than just having a larger stack of cash in the bank to throw at a problem. Knowing what I know about @rollin coal, I'd speculate that he could walk into any truck dealer and drive away with whatever truck he chose and get a good finance deal on it. But, has instead chosen to do what he's doing. I can respect that as a sound business move, even if it may not be what I would have done.

When I see someone going through a trial like this, I tend to look at what they're doing about it instead of focusing on what they may have done better before the fact. Armchair quarterbacking someone else's business really doesn't help anyone, especially when you don't get all the details, or know enough about the person involved.

It wasn't me saying you or other critical posts were necessarily bad people, or that I'm some kind of good guy for not weighing in like that.

How do I help? He hasn't asked for any. He has my phone number and knows I'd drop what I was doing if there was something I could do. In this case about the only thing I could offer would be if he broke down around Atlanta, a meal, a place to stay if needed, or a free ride home since he's only around 2.5 hours away. Other than that, he knows what he's doing and knows me well enough to just ask if he thought I had something to offer.

 

Don't know you, probably won't! Have a ton of respect, because of what you wrote! If all the internet big talkers, were raised old school like us, be alot less bs!

 

He says it's a start over, not me, but you say
noooo, that's not the case. I guess you
know better than him.

I'm following him from the beginning, I've had
the impression he is doing really well, that's
why I'm so surprised.
Do you really think he'll get any truck at a dealer
and get a good financing deal like that without
a substantial down payment? And a great credit
rating. And who knows what else.

The biggest problem is you don't see a problem,
this cheese Bible staff you are swimming in is
not much of a help.