Truck on a partnership going bad !!!

you must have missed this one Bill. I'm not anti-immigrant. I'm just against slip-shod cut rate business, and frankly it's the big shippers, railyards, etc... that let this crap go on and they're as much to blame as the guys operating cheap trucks. Most of the time they're working for little more than fuel and truck payment. Then when the truck breaks down it's just bankruptcy and buy another truck in somebody elses name.

 

What's wrong with starting out with a cheap truck, Many a person has started out with truck for less then $14k. Some have made it some haven't. Some have a good business sense some don't. Some get a cheap truck and lasts 300k miles with no major breakdowns. Some get a $90k truck and it's in the shop 2 weeks later with a blown motor. Nothing wrong with operating a cheap truck, as long it passes inspection.
DId the OP make some bad business decisions. Yes. That doesn't mean he is out there driving down rates.
Last I checked this forum was for advice and information. The OP has just as much right to post questions here as you or I do.

 

You missed the fact that Support81 is not the original poster that is in this situation...

 

Right with you there. Think it was Support that said something about an "illegal".

This is just a "business deal gone bad" - nothing more, nothing less.

The "shady-ness" was in the transaction itself (though I think the OP was "purposely light" on some details).

If he was operating with the original owners tag/cab card - the whose MC was he operating UNDER?

There's WAAAAY MORE to this whole thing, than has been disclosed.

I'm not throwing accusations around - just that we have no idea what ANY ARRANGEMENTS were on this deal - other than the OP's assertion they went 1/2's and the partnership wasn't working out.

For all we know - they had NO AUTHORITY, NO INSURANCE and god only knows NO ANYTHING ELSE. OR - they were doing an l/p from the original owner, and operating under his authority. How were they booking loads? Who was doing their A/R?

Just "really weird" all the way around - especially from a new member.

There's a right way, and a wrong way to do things as an O/O - this has all the appearances as a TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE on how to do it THE WRONG WAY...

Rick

 

you can get a blank bill of sale off the internet.Just fill it out and send it to previous owner asking him to sign it and notarize it.He may not want to get between you and partner.But paperwork will keep him out of conflict.

 

Maybe I was reading between the lines too much. But the guy said him and his partner each paid 7k and still owe on the truck. If you haven't officially purchased the truck you haven't transferred title. How do you get plates ? insurance ? etc... He said he was potentially out the 7k, Obviously if they had bothered to register the truck and get their paperwork in order he would have been out more than that. I logically inferred they haven't taken those steps. So in my mind, they went out running illegal and couldn't get along. Oh, my heart bleeds for them. It really does....

 

Thanks for noticing ..but he likes to argue with me.

 

This thread degenerated into the pi$$ing contest most of these tend to crumble into. Hard to tell the players in a cat fight - it's just a bunch of cats, fighting...

Rick

 

Yup!.....stay classy gentlemen.