Where to buy a truck ?

I looked there . then I read a post somewhere with complaints about them selling bad trucks so I thought I would post here and get some opinions . I never take that one opinion as being the facts as a whole . there is always a few unhappy customers in any business .
Still have to find a company to lease out to . So far I have got that old " you need two years otr ..."

 

Why do you say that ? I just have good credit and a few bucks saved up .
What do you mean by partner with someone or a company ? I thought that was sort of what I had in mind by buying and leasing out . You got to realize I can not just pack up and move out of state for 3 months or longer just because boss does not want to stick it out during the slack pay times like every other grain hauling company does . Hell it's agg work . Prices up and down all the time . I was not complaining about pay . I was just sucking it up and hanging in there .

 

8 years . Get a new job is what I am working towards . I actually was planning on staying here for at least a year but that has turned out to be maybe not possible .
When i first started out I worked for a guy local end dump hauling a lot of mud and digging that crap out by the tons from my trailer with a shovel . this guy had no money . I bought fuel and parts all the time . he owed me thousands of dollars at a time and maybe a month or two with no pay and then a some pay and many bad checks . I sucked it up and stuck it out for 3 years . everyone thought I was an idiot . but I had a plan . I needed that 3 years experience so i could go get a better job . I found it . Great job , best one I have ever had and only job I ever liked doing . I made good money and went home every day . Anywhere from 900 to 1800 a week for doing almost nothing . Might not be great money in some areas but here in Ks that works just fine . Now if I lived in Ca then I would be living in a closet for that money ! Got tired of a certain employee so I called it quits and decided to haul grain . Something different . Having no experience in this limited my choices . Not to mention finding a grain hauling company is not so easy . It's not like they advertise . I took the job and now it is not so great but still trying to stick it out .
So with limited experience in hopper work it is not so easy to go find a otr job . they all want that 1 or 2 years otr experience . I think I would have more luck if I owned the truck . then at least I could do what ever till I found the right outfit .

edit : I forgot to add in that I started with end dump guy making about 21 K year and then that dropped down to 15k for the next two years . I still sucked it up . My bank account was drained by 10K by the time I quit .

 

I am guessing that Arrow is not the Arrow trucking company that went belly up in Ok ?

 

I was looking there yesterday . Was not sure how their trucks were . Was looking at a 2006 columbia . then I noticed it only has a rear axle weight of 20,000 GVW of 52000 . got any idea if this is 20K per axle or for both ? I would think it would be both but... Then not sure if 52K GVW is enough to be hauling 85500 Lbs. But then I do not know much about this kind of stuff since I never had to deal with it before .