Talk me off the ledge please. .

After doing this for most of the last 12 years I am thinking about getting my own authority. Little background first:

10 years as a company driver.
1 year O/O leased to a carrier.
Recently, L/P for a mega carrier (Profitable).

I have decided to purchase a truck again next spring when my lease is up. I am really leaning towards getting my own authority and going for broke.
If I don't come to my senses first, I will go back to flats (7 years exp.) to make it happen.

I have the financial aspects locked down but no customer base, yet.

 

I am profitable as a L/P, and my son is now 19 and in the Army.

Just took me years to learn how to run a truck like a business.

 

I am to the point of paying cash for a used Freightliner and getting ready to do this in a year.

 

No, I am leasing a 2015 Cascadia, but will turn it in next spring at the end of the lease. I just did L/P as an easy way to save money to buy a truck again.