Skyview Farms

I have read all the posts about SkyView, I am still going to sign on with them as a Lease Operator, I am also going to be leasing my trailer with them also. I have talked to several recruitors there, and they all know me as WolfMAN since they all have learnt that I do own a full blooded wolf. The owner of the company has no problem with me bringing my wolf in my truck at no extra cost, My lease purchase deal is not 1500 down or 3500 deposit, my lease with them says zero down 1000 a week for everything I need to get my own business started. I have talked to several other companies about their lease purchase and they all wanna pay about a dollar a mile plus fsc at skyview I will make 82% of the gross load. So the way I figured it Ill have to spend money on diesel and maintance, on top of the 1000 a week, but I also took accounting 1 and accounting 2 in college so I understand how to manage money. Some of the drivers here are telling me what other owner operators have told me and they all said why are you still a company driver than, make the move today! I am waiting on a few more things to get cleared by the insurance company and than I am on my way to NE. It does not matter if you get crappy loads are what some consider good loads, its all about how you manage your money.

Now I was warned if you refuse a load its ok, if you refuse the next load, you better take load number 3, because if you don't you will sit for a few days. I have been out here since July, 2007, I have worked with force dispatch companies and non force dispatch companies, I have only worked for a total of three companies. Two big ones and now a small fleet, however I have never refused a load, I am a trucker I go where the freight needs to go. I hear steer wheeling holders talk about where they won't drive and they wonder why they are getting low paychecks. With all the new hos and regulations the gov is forcing me to open my own business.
Some people in my small company are telling me not to make this move, because they said owner operators cant make it out there today. Well if Owner Operators cant make it out there today why is there still owner operators out there today blowing my doors away?

Skyview told me to plan on being out about 5 weeks at a time, I plan on being out all year round, and get home when my load allows me to be home on my ten hour break or 34 hour restart. The reason why is I am young and I want to be able in two years to get more trucks and more trailers hire my own drivers, give them the best medical, dental, vision policies that America has to offer, and give them the best pay in the industry. I am tired of hearing about the past American Dream, I am gonna do my best to go life it! So Skyview here I come!

Woohoo!!!!!!

PS What I don't understand about steer wheeling holders they say they wont do NYC, or Chicago, or the NorthEast, but they will go to Cali. LOL Cali is 55 for truckers, and the traffic in LA is worse than Chicago or NYC, You have low bridges all across America, they are not just in the NorthEast, I have found with my current company that I am having to retrace my routes in Mississippi cause of the weigt limit on some of their roads. If you can drive in the South or West you should be able to drive in the North. However I am a safety first kind of driver!
Where I come from we get ice not snow, So I don't know how to drive in the snow or ice, so I won't! But when the roads are good enough to move I will hit the road again!

 

$1000 a week? Why? That is horrible. You can go to a stealership and buy a brand new truck for half that per month. And as far as managing your money, you will need to do that. After that insane lease and fuel you will be lucky to have .25 left over. How do you plan on paying your taxes, because you won't even make enough money for that. Good luck, but I see yet another lease failure. Go buy your own truck and lease it onto a decent company. Credit not so good? No problem, you say you can manage money right? Then manage and save like a mad man and pay cash for a truck. What you are planning to do is suicide.

 

Think about it 1000 a week for everything excluding maintance and fuel. If I make 82% of the gross load, I should be profitting after everything is said and done around 3000 to 6000 a week! I will be fine.

 

By the way that 1000 a week is not just for the truck its for the trailer too! So I will owe both the truck and trailer when its all said and done!

 

Drink the Koolaid it will be all right

 

just a tiny bit of info i'll pass on to u; after u have the equipment just about paid for (owe maybe a year left on it all), they give/offer loads that don't even pay the fuel to run the truck, then they repo it from u because u can't make ur payments to them. i've seen it happen to tons of people, especially my cousin 3 times

 

hammer down, you go boy.........

 

You are going to fail WITHOUT doubt. Let's say you run 3000 miles a week which you probably won't. Let's say you average $1.50/mile on those 3000 miles which you probably won't. So that leaves you with $4500 GROSS per week. Minus $1000 from that and you have $3500 BEFORE fuel. Fuel is going to cost you $2000 based on $4/gallon at 6mpg. So now you are left with $1500 BEFORE maintenance.
So the numbers will obviously vary a bit but how the **** do you come up with $3000-$6000 profit a week? Am I missing something here? I'm thinking you will probably fire back with the belief that you will average more than $1.50/mile but when it's all said and done it will probably be even less considering empty miles as well. So the numbers above are probably best case scenario. I was very conservative on miles, rpm, fuel price, mpg and not to mention I left out any maintenance which we all know will come up. I don't know what model truck you are running so I can't be precise on mpg but I have a feeling you'll be pulling a lot of heavy loads. But who knows, maybe you'll be the chosen one... LOL

 

that's alot of money to come up with every week...............wow...gigidy

 

He must mean $1000 per month not a week. Or he has some special math.
Maybe he won't have to buy tires or change oil or have EGR problems.