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Tell me the horror stories

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Pokey1, Jan 15, 2011.

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  1. Jan 15, 2011 #1
    Pokey1

    Pokey1 Bobtail Member

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    All right, remind me why the grass isn't any greener. I was an owner op from 2000 - 2008 and my dumb #### is thinking of buying back in. Tell me about your bad repair stories,Tax problems, etc. So I stay where I am at.
     
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  3. Jan 15, 2011 #2
    heavyhaulerss

    heavyhaulerss Road Train Member

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    Come on back out here. why ? cause misery loves company!! :biggrin_2559:
     
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  4. Jan 15, 2011 #3
    rocknroll nik

    rocknroll nik High Risk Load Member

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    Pokey you know #### well what the horror stories are.....you just got too much diesel in your blood driver and you know it!!
     
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  5. Jan 15, 2011 #4
    Big John

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    You want to buy my truck so I can get out and become a DOT officer, I hear they are going to be hiring a bunch for the new super coops their building in Oklahoma and want to man them 24/7.
     
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  7. Jan 15, 2011 #5
    Working Class Patriot

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    ....It was a dark and stormy night......:biggrin_2552:
     
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  8. Jan 16, 2011 #6
    Big John

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    You ain't going to believe this #### but break downs still happen, shops are charging $100 an hour or more, you cry every time you go to the fuel pumps, economy still sucks, Obama is still president, a lot of drivers still haul for nothing and don't know how to operate a business, the big boys keep getting bigger, brokers are still greedy and the IRS man is still their on April the 15th with his hands out. Not much of a love story anymore.

    how about a short poem

    Roses are red
    Violets are purple
    Were all broke
    and just driving in circles.
     
    Big John, Jan 16, 2011
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  9. Jan 16, 2011 #7
    Pokey1

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    That's kind of the stuff I'm trying to remind myself about. After a few years of not dealing with the day to day BS of owning your own truck, you start to gloss over all the bad, and just remember the good.
     
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  10. Jan 16, 2011 #8
    Big John

    Big John Road Train Member

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    You got to have a love for it, I guess that is why I am still doing it. I just don't think I love it us much as I did twenty years ago when I got behind the wheel of a cabover, I was grinning ear to ear. Know I get in my Peterbilt and just sit their and think to myself and say "Awwwww #### here we go again another week of BS. :biggrin_2559:
     
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  11. Jan 16, 2011 #9
    Lilbit

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    Pokey1, Y'all ain't gonna believe this . . . :biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559:
     
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  12. Jan 16, 2011 #10
    dairyman

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    Big John,i'm driving a truck that wus built the year you started driving,so what's that say about me?:biggrin_25521::biggrin_2559:
     
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