Am I an Idiot? O/O's Please Read!!!!!

Have you talked with Wakefern about being an o/o for them maybe out of Breiningsville? Bushkill isn't exactly a great place to live for a guy wanting to get home every night. The bottom line though is that if you're taking home 1,000 after taxes now, you'll need 2,000 profit to equal what you're making after taxes, medical, an retirement.

 

Now that's down right funny. From what I when I ran groceries up there, it wasn't a lot of turn over with the o/o which is very good thing once you get on. Nestle and Sherwin Williams used to hire o/o, you might want to check around. It's been a long time since I ran up there, so that might not be true anymore.

 

Growing up, my father always told me to pick a career I would enjoy waking up and looking forward to getting to. Life is too short to hate what you do for 1/3 to 1/2 of it. You'll also always wonder "what if" if you don't take that chance. If you're a smart business person and manage your money well, you could be very very successful.

I would recommend building up a significant reserve before up and purchasing your own truck though. Plan for breakdowns, plan for slow freight periods and poor paying loads or slow paying brokers. They are a fact of life and you need to be prepared. Good luck to you!


The Best advice so far. Before you know, it will be too late

 

Hey I have a red Ducati 900SS!

My friend has 7 Freightliner FLD120's. He has a guy in each truck hauling local steel daily. He buys em for 3500 to 5k each and has a mechanic look after them. I have just been laid off from my factory job after 13 years. The business is working so well for Him that I am buying 2 trucks and going to concentrate on building my fleet. I hear often that the REAL money is hauling slag in tri axles Good Luck!

 

If you don't do it, you will always wonder "what if ?" I hate that question! Find out. You could probably work your way back to where you are now if things dont work out. By the way, for working 12 hrs a day 6 days a week you are making about 16.50 per hr. With the cost of gas/maintenance on your POV, you aren't making that much. Seems like you are working a ton to me. When you calculate your commute, you drive more than OTR guys! So you will probably drive less in your new pursuit.

Also, just cause a lot of guys haven't been able to do it (o/o, and be home regularly) doesn't mean you cant.

Good luck, Godspeed

 

major portion of your challenge is to find company that has no starry-eye'd ideas that you have to kow-tow to then work the numbers, ease into it on an "able to fail at any time" basis as all that is glitz & glitter is just robbers & cheaters ......

see if you can find some company that is in need of people with stable style and can keep up with 30-60-90 day draw schedule + you have to be able to float a lot of $ and doing chapter 11 is not really an acceptable risk

 

holy sheet!!!!

I have BC/BS on my own as a single 32yr old male with asthma and I only pay $180 a month. You might want to call them and ask for a rate re-evaluation. That's WAY too high unless you've had some major surgeries or heart/cancer issues???

 

Stick with what you are doing. As an O/O I highly doubt you will find a local gig and even harder to find one that will pay enough to support you, your family and your truck. Most likely you will be OTR in the beginning and gone for a few weeks at a time. So right now you have more home time than you will as an O/O

Why not ask for weekends off?? Worst they can say is NO, and I doubt they would want to loose a good driver over 1 day of work a week.

 

Wait till your 50th birthday !