Dac report question..

I'm willing to pay the higher insurance for a couple years or so till i gain that all important experience.

What are you going to do if all companies recite the same old line
on anything negative on your DAC and won't hire you and lack of
experience is another downer.

 

While I understand your point I would ask a couple of questions.


Do you have any customers willing to give a start up O/O freight? Without a stable customer base you will be in a world of sharks with the majority having a decided advantage of having the experience of knowing dead zones, seasonal freight, and cost per mile of their business that you will lack due to inexperience.



Do you understand the industry? There is far more to it than just buying equipment. IFTA, FHUT, IRP, NYHUT, KYU, PAPUC, Kansas will try and get income tax, New Mexico will require......well you get the point. Now yes there are services that will cross your I's and dot your T's but when the Officer asks for your paperwork it will be your wallet and buttocks on the line so you had better know which I' are supposed to be dotted or crossed.

Do you have sufficient operating capital? You will need at a minimum 30 days of funds(and that is if the brokers pay quickly). Fuel alone can easily cost $300 a day. Now you can ask for advances, use factors and the like but the 5-8% you'll be giving up makes you that much more expensive to operate.


Now couple that with the fact you will be trying to learn how to operate a 70' +/- long commercial motor vehicle in territories you are most likely unfamiliar with.



Think carefully and do your homework before buying a trucking business, because that is what you are doing by buying a truck. You are buying a start up business.

 

well then i highly suspect you will be out of business with-in a very short time...the money you would be paying out for higher insurance premiums comes from where, a money tree...???

you WILL NEED to charge for hauling that includes your expenses, and if you do not take that into consideration your C.O.D.B., you are doomed to failure.....then you also have to BE GOOD and RELIABLE and competitive (price wise) in order to get the business...one stinking penny less than what YOU charge, the other company WILL TAKE your freight....customers hold a right to make changes, and they will......

as another poster asked, do you have clients lined up..?? do you have a business plan..?? a bank, credit union WILL ASK YOU these questions AND MANY MORE....and if you got THAT KIND OF CASH around, where you DO NOT NEED a banker, then why bother being a trucker...???

you only had you license for 2 years..?? how much driving have you actually done in those two years, how much of the industry have you actually learned...

hey, do as YOU wish, and YOU WILL, food luck to you, and let me know when your truck will be up for sale, i just might be interested in about 6 months from now...(or less)....

 

I too had a rookie incident with Prime. I wonder how many have? This could be a reflection of the training or the fact that dispatchers are so eager to get the loads out they send rookie drivers into places they shouldn't. I was one week off the trainers truck and sent into central philly with another drivers load. I was told by an experienced driver that I should not have been sent there.

 

yeah but you have to take what was said by the driver with a grain of salt..of course he's going to say something like that to you, he wants you to think they were wrong, when all the while, YOU ARE a truck driver, you should have been able to handle Hunts Point, Philly, Quincey Market, etc,etc......that driver had no more a right to criticize the dispatcher then he thought he did.....was HE THE ONE in line for that load...??? i surmise not.....don't pay too much attention to any other driver from your company when they say such garbage.....

 

While training standards are no where near adequate, he is correct you had the option of stopping before the incident.

The dispatcher, load planner, safety guy, owner...... none of them had control of that vehicle you did. That is the simple fact. All the I wasn't ready( did they show you were the brakes were?) excuses in the world do not exonerate your decision.