team looking for O/O advice

My wife and I are considering purchasing our own truck within the next year. I have almost 3 years of driving experience and she has been driving for 6 months now. I visit the forums a lot and see a lot of bickering between newbies and experienced O/O's on how to go about starting out. I would like some details about what companies would work out best for us leasing on to a company with our truck and their trailer. I also would like to know how you would approach it if you could find someone you could stand long enough to try it with lol. We are both 27, have no children, and have no mortgage or rent to pay at the moment. I would like to stay away from flatbeds for now but I don't think she cares what we pull as long as the compensation is right.

P.s. we would probably be looking to spend about 20k-30k on a 1st truck and have about $10-15k for incidentals on start-up.

 

shes not that type of woman unfortunately. i was told by everyone that once we started driving together i would be hooking all the trailers and unhooking but she quickly put an end to that notion lol. she's one of those "i can do anything you can do even though im a woman" type women.

we team currently at schneider national on a dedicated account.

also thanks for the response

 

Would $180-200k net to the truck be a realistic goal for a O/O team? my wording could be off but I am meaning after expenses (pretax)

 

What is a good price range on pay for specialized freight cpm wise? I've always thought I wanted to get into OS/OD loads but the permits and detours and routing kind of turned me away from it.