Is this feasible, and resonable?

Um...I read the whole thing, and it was informative...and I'll leave it at that.

 

While you're reading that thread, you'll come to the part where the thread gets locked down for a pissing match. It took me a while to find it, but here is the companion thread (and just like a Christmas present--don't open it early):

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...vice/91108-instant-o-o-and-loadboards-ii.html

Now I'm just waiting for another thread like this to open up...

"Hi guys, I'm a former nuclear physicist who also spent twelve years at the Mayo Clinic working as a cardiac surgeon. I'm thinking about buying my own truck and becoming an O/O. What do you guys think?"

 

I think I have already read that thread!

 

Experience,experience and more experience.Even after attending a driving school,most companies will put you out with a trainer for 4 to 8 weeks.Even if you own your truck you gotta have verifiable experience.

 

Well, I was gonna start that one, but I just got called into surgery!

 

The veritable experience has been pretty much overlooked..good point. Carriers insurance companies and the carriers themselves ( since many are self insured up to say the first quarter million) are going to faint at the thought of dealing with someone with zero experience going down the road in a 80k lb vehicle. If something bad happened no matter the fault lawyers would have a field day with it. I think the OP is undertaking a huge risk..much bigger than realized. Going into a industry like trucking is hard for experienced drivers who know the rules and what is required to make it fly let alone going in totally blind. Even though you desperately want to create a shortcut into the business I would strongly advise against it. At the least I would go to a community college type school and go from there. Good luck in whatever you decide.

 

OK... stop talking about me like that...

You the problem with people like you guys that think you know everything?
You are ALWAYS getting the the way with people like ME that do!


LOL
Sorry guys the Physicist made me say it!

 

Rambler is 1000% correct! About this time last year, I thought about doing the same thing as the OP. After thinking about it, and talking with a couple of friends who were formerly O/O I concluded that it would be a big mistake to jump into the trucking industry as an O/O.
My advice to the OP is to enroll in a good truck driving school, and go from there.