6 months experience next month (looking to lease on)...

Seriously....lolololololol....I am at home with my kids and they are asking me dad what are you laughing at.....

I needed this laugh...thanks.....

 

Looks like I am going to Henderson....I will keep you all updated.....

 

I can't share all the etc's of why I made the decision to go with Henderson, but one cannot even lease there until at least 6 months of driving with them. I listened to others but prior to listening to them I already had approval to find a lease program where it fits my needs.

Since discussing things here, I have already chilled with an owner operator who basically sat down with me and gave me a list of things to have "prior" to buying my own truck or even attempting to lease, one of the things he mentioned was more time driving as a company driver, but that wasn't his focus, he went into details repeatedly about, organization of paperwork, keeping receipts, understanding that a simple breakdown can cost you close to 10,000 dollars if you are not careful, getting more mechanically inclined with the truck I plan to buy or lease, I would no longer be a driver but a business owner, money made to the truck never mistake it as personal profit but money to invest in your business for a maintenance fund, or prevention fixes prior to a breakdown etc. things that were real informative, and though I heard some of these things from other drivers, one of the things he hinted toward is doing these things I would be okay.


His information was appreciated and I moved on, and I listened to him, and he said something about the perks of being an owner operator for him wasn't a whole lot of cash but the perks of his gross. And that was okay for him, but not for me.


Since being here I have also seen another owner operator post information on here about how he doesn't except les than 700 net a day for his revenue and if he meant 700 x 5 that's 3,500 a week but if he meant 700 x 7 that's a whopping 4,900 a week net... and the same said he has now scored or is scoring runs where he goes less than 300 miles for freight worth 2200.....

I also forgot to mention the same guy I spoke to personally who gave me a list of things to do, he started showing me how much he was paying for fuel, and I instantly said inside of myself, that's where you are losing money sir. He was getting 5mpg etc. so within myself I understood some owner operators will give me insight to maximizing the most revenue by dealing with customers and etc's and looking for unique fright so to speak for finding my own niche so to speak and plugging in to it. While other owner operators have poured into me the other things needed to be a successful business owner from a perspective of maintaining my business outside of talk of take home revenue but focusing on keeping the business above water.

My point is that I listened to them, and even the naysayers who have posted on here, but I wish that the people who were not successful in their own lease or becoming an owner operator keeping their trucks etc. would have shared why they were not successful, was it the companies fault or was it somethig they did, versus simply say don't do it etc.

Thanks for your feedback..... (I didn't refuse to listen, I just refused to obey unsuccessful lease operators or o/o's)....