Is this the end for me in trucking?

Buy the book “who moved my cheese”.

 

How much you are paying for insurance if you dont mind me asking.thinking of taking a break and keep my mc active.thx

 

$4k a year

 

I’ve followed this thread and I get it. Commenting because you mentioned JP, which shows something if you know what I mean, so seems worth giving some input.

I’ve wanted to farm, specifically dairy farm, for about a decade now. It’s taken on many forms, many phases, many approaches, yet I’ve never quite put it together. I was close- in 2019, I quit my trucking job to move my family (wife and 3 kids, I was only 24 btw) to a dairy farm to live and work there. The intention was to give it a trial, then if both parties agree, we would start discussing transfer of ownership. All was well, and then one day between yr 1 and yr 2 I just had this feeling that I couldn’t shake. Like if I continued I was boxing myself in, putting myself in a cage, imprisoning some part of myself. The irony is it was, on paper, EXACTLY what I’d always envisioned. Wife loved it too. Much mental/emotional agony ensued. Ended up quite depressed and confused. Back and forth internally from the time I opened my eyes to the time I closed them for months on end.

Anyway…. Long story short, I continued there for another 10 months or so. Even tried to quit and work somewhere else but only lasted a couple weeks and ran back to the farm since we hadn’t moved yet. It’s been 2 years since we left and I continue still to learn WHY that specific situation wasn’t it, and more importantly, what it is that I am looking for. My mind didn’t know at the time, but my gut did. I’m still set on farming but the goal has been reframed. Sometimes, we have a tendency to insist on making everything make sense just so, and be congruent and ever lasting but that just ain’t reality. You can always get back in a truck, you can always keep doing what you are and quit tomorrow. By moving on to another career you’re only closing a door to a specific room (your current customer), not an entire house (trucking, o/o, etc). It’ll be there if you want to go back.

I guess my point is- you probably already have your answer, and you probably know what that answer is but part of you can’t/isn’t willing to make sense of it or accept it.

FYI if you want to chat send me a message. I’ve spent literally thousands on therapy (zero regrets) since that day on the farm and I’m more than happy to talk.

 

@gokiddogo

You don’t have to give up something you worked hard for to build. You can venture off into something else like real estate.

The prices are falling and it’s a good opportunity to invest in a vacation rental in a business/landlord friendly vacation spot. You can set it up the way you want and hire a landscaping and cleaning company to maintain the unit/s. If you have capital saved up to invest, it’s a great way to make that money work for you.

You can still even drive and hire a fill in driver that is retired and wants to drive 2 days per week to stay active. That’s 2 days less of work for you to focus on looking for properties and finding your next venture to hustle in.

Never sell the cow, because you’re always going to have to buy milk. Let what you worked hard for work to your advantage. Take your cake and eat it too and don’t regress and keep trucking ahead.

Either way, best of luck to you in whatever you decide to do. I wish you nothing but success.

 

this is "The End";

The End - YouTube

 

Tell me you didn't read this thread without saying "I didn't read the thread"! But great minds think alike.

 

I read it, just to make sure no one else posted it. actually, can't believe no one did.

 

I shared the song. You must have missed mine when you went through all the posts.

 

Just something to think about, not a bad plan. I think leasing on o/o is a good plan but will be almost a waste of time at only 10%. A low enough number of o/o’s leased on that you could handle without help would almost not be worth the time and enough to make it worthwhile would have you busier than a one legged man in an ### kicking contest. You would actually have more time off driving it yourself. So you would need to hire a couple of people for the office. It cost us about 7.5% in overhead so is 2.5% worth the headache? I think 15% is very fair and 18-20% if you provide the trailer. Especially if you are running good paying dedicated freight. If you think about it, some of these stupid dispatch companies are charging 5-10% just to dispatch with no liability and you know what brokers are taking. At least you have put yourself in a position to have choices. Good luck.