Becoming an O/O at 22 with no prior trucking experience.

Subscribed!! This should be good!! Where is the darn popcorn!!

 

have you looked into insurance costs yet?

 

buying a truck is the easiest part. lol its the insurance/maintence/getting loads/ paper work/ brokers/fuel/trailers/DOT/experiance.. list goes on

 

There is a right road to O/O and there is a wrong.

 

Be a good idea to go otr as a company driver at a very minimum of 3 months just to get through the training and building confidence in a truck you aren't responsible for.

Lots of potential for dumb rookie mistakes to be made, why volunteer to pay for them when you don't have to.

 

You won't be able to get insurance. Sure, there's a way to get insured but you can't afford it.

 

Not sure how you would know the guy can't afford the young driver insurance, but nonetheless this is a valid point.

 

I've done it with little experience with good success. Needs a little smarts though. Not saying a 150 IQ but you can't run for free. Cost a buck 0 eight ($1.08 to operate a rig per mile. Everything after that is profit. Knowing what I know now, I'd hop on with an ltl outfit and burn up the pavement

 

Because I've researched it; I've been driving for over 20 years, no tickets or accidents and even I couldn't afford it because in my case it would be considered a "new business venture". I could get insurance through a few companies (expensive) because of my experience but he has none. Nonetheless he will probably jump in, buy the truck and try to figure all this out as he goes which will end-up in failure in the first year like over 80% of new OO's...In my humble opinion, as long as the Swift's, CRE's, Werner's etc. receive corporate welfare I won't be competing with them.

 

It is so easy a caveman could do it!