What other owner operators will not tell you when you are new.

You just got in at a bad time. If you became an o/o in the 2nd half of 2020, by the end of 2021 you could have been teaching people on YouTube how to make easy money in trucking.

What made you become an o/o to start with? Who was your influencer?

 

Restaurants fail. Coffee shops fail. Clothing stores fail. Sporting goods stores fail. Every business has failures. I’ve never understood the attitude that trucking should have a 100% success rate just because someone can buy a truck.

 

[/QUOTE]OH and a last thought --- with the vast amount of information on this site, if anyone with an open mind, asks questions and reads the posts for a while, maybe 6 months worth, they should not fail. This site has some of the most important advice anyone could ever get but I am going to be brutally honest about this - many ... too many people come here with the only reason to qualify their asinine idea and ignore most of the advice given by those who have lived the problems. They always fail, they waste a lot of time and money and a few may have come back here and blamed everyone for their failure.[/QUOTE]

I have to agree with you. This site is a treasure trove of information. I have learned a lot from the people here. There hasn't been one time that I log on that I didn't come away learning something new. Of course you have to have certain personal traits that will help you to achieve success also.

 

You explained your situation perfectly.

You don't have money to pay for your equipment. You don't have money to sit. You don't have anyone willing to pay you what you find acceptable. And you don't want to run your truck to not turn a profit. Pretty simple.

Do you buy things at stores when they go on sale? Or choose one store over another because the same item cost less? They are all fighting for your dollar. But that's how it should be, right? Do you honestly think the broker is charging the customer 4.00 a mile then offering you 1.30? I bet the customer would love to hire you directly for say 3.00. Considering you're such a hot shot. So go and make it happen.

Maybe since brokerages are absolutely destroying it out here you should go and be in that business.

 

Everyone makes it sounds like some ridiculous conspiracy/plot to rob the O/O. Its simply economics, too many trucks on the road so the desperate ones take that $1/mile offer. Enough loads get moved for $1/mile and thats the new market rate.

 

Yes they litterally do.. Every industry has middlemen. Every industry has liars, cowards, thievs, you name it... Probably way more of that in most businesses compared to trucking...

So if you hate middlemen so much. Then why dont you cut them out? You also hate yourself as well, since you are a middleman between the manufacturer and the retailer.. Maybe the retailers have the same thoughts about you? "Lying thieving good for nothing truck drivers, charging outrageous rates just because they can. Bunch of thieves."

 

If you are saying that 100% of owner operators are supposed to fail it sounds like its some sort of plot.