Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

-$EV = Expected Value in Dollar Terms

Maybe Bright One needs to start a Poker Tournament Strategy for Truckers thread here... preferably in the King's English!

No doubt, if he does, I'll still have to Google his darn esoteric references...

Do I have this Bright-One-speak translated correctly??

 

No, you're deliberately missing the point Victor. The name calling and political sidetracks really speak more to some axe you have to grind with DY or business owners in general, and don't add anything of merit here. The Politics forum might be a better fit.

 

I've been buying a lottery ticket for the drawing every week for as long as I can remember. I buy 2 months at a time. If I win nothing will change, I will still continue to truck.


NOT

 

Listened to the Intro (Atlas Shrugged, 36th Edition or some such). Do plan to listen to the whole thing, thx. Not that it'll change my mind any. Not a socialist, either. Just a confirmed 'knee jerk liberal.' Unimpressed by Ayn Rand's simplistic world view of producers and leaches. Ugh!!

That means, knowing that a stitch-in-time really does save 9 and not too cheap to pay today to not have to pay more at some future tomorrow. Like getting folks into healthcare today to avoid the higher cost and very dire consequences down the road without.

No objection to Bright One figuring the best way to navigate the system!

I would expect nothing less...

 

Great thread .
Now since all this is far too much for my ADD riddled brain to compute with any reasonable expectation of not going bankrupt and ruining my life ... Is there a service I can subscribe to that would take care of the whole buying truck etc... for me and also all the other crap that comes along with being an OO ? I would rather pay for the service than guess on my own .
I was thinking of buying a truck maybe in the 60K range( 1500.00 month) and leasing a grain trailer ( 1000.00 month ). I can get work I think in the 150 to 200K a year range and run local . I think I could save money on your 30K working capital range by buying a newer truck and by running basically just in Ks & Ok.

 

Take it from a grain hauler don't do it right now. It's as bad as I have ever seen it in 17 years

 

It amazes me how screwed up the laws are. A friend of mine told me about a contractor that pulled this stunt. The contractor run his business into the ground mortgaged his laydown yard to the max, he sold or hit the good stuff and filed for bankruptcy. The bank takes over the leftovers and bring an auctioneer in to sell what is left. The auction is in Whitehorse, YT so it is not a hot spot and trucking will cost a fortune. He shows up and buys some equipment at pennies on the Dollar and also buys his old laydown yard back at a cheaper rate than when he bought it the first time. Now he is back in business got rid off all his old debt, got his property back at a cheaper price and back to making money.
When I grew up in Germany people always said after you gone bankrupt three times with your business you should have enough money stashed away so you would not have to work another day in your life. I don't know how people look in the mirror, but I am a firm believer in karma and what goes around comes around.