Being scamed as a owner operator

Yes, think it over as long as you like. It will eventually sink in.

Unless you are like some of the knot heads on this forum. You couldn't beat it thru their heads with a sledge hammer.

 

Lol I like to treat it like a big secret that only the cool truckers are in on.

 

What people don't get is that leasing to a company paying 80%-90% don't have half the customer base of a mercer or Landstar, so in turn they negotiate rates from loadboards which are already skim and they barely get 2.00 per mile then they take 10-20% off that. Now you're getting that every now and then but not consistently. If you're talking bout a company like Farm2Fleet then they might be an exception because you control your destiny and can find your own customers and freight. As far as getting your own numbers it's more so a personal preference in which location plays a big part in if it makes business sense to active your authority.

 

A scam is a scam only if blatant deception is used to take money from you. If you had a contract to read and sign beforehand, and you chose to sign it after reading it, you are not being scammed. It may be a bad business deal you got yourself into, but you aren't being scammed if you accepted the terms.

 

If you need a legal team to decipher your agreement then it's a scam.
So yes, don't sign
Learn to choose your battles too..
Sometimes when your not getting what you should, it still beats anywhere else you can be, #### the hindsight

 

Doesn't Farm2Fleet take 80% off the top?

 

OP, like @cnsper said their are a bunch of answers here.

Do some homework, read thru this site.
Lots of valuable information on starting on your own. As well as the lease on or lease purchase programs.

OOIDA website has tools to assist truck drivers.

http://www.ooida.com/EducationTools/Tools/


Look over some of these files. See if you can understand them. Then ask some more questions or search this site for keywords. Good luck

 

No, the truck gets 80, they get 20

 

LOL.. Next time I'll read twice, answer once. I already smacked myself for answering the way I did.... I should know better..

As @KAK already mentioned, yes, taking the $3 load is better than a $1.125 load (using said percentages).

 

LOL, heck I had to read it 10 times before I posted it to make sure I was saying what I thought I was.