The road to becoming an Owner Operator with own authority.

Yes, I take that bet.

When I graduated from Trucking school, I had no idea how to drive a truck. I was really bad. The first job was driving a flatbed with a day cab. No backing involved. The next job was team over the road, KC to Houston and back. I could not back into the dock to save my life. Now mind you I have a very high IQ and I am not use to being bad at anything. But trucks and I didn't seem to be on the same page. I refused to quit until I got good. When I was at ACT, I was a local driver for them. I could back into docks in the caves at Kansas City with no problem but hitting a wide open dock was difficult for me. Also, when I would stop paying attention I would turn a corner to much like driving a car and bam there goes a pole or sign. Turns out driving a truck doesn't take brains as much as it does focus.

Where you might win your bet is with all the paperwork involve in having your own authority. Mountains of it.

The purpose of the post was to encourage others not to give up. If I can do it, anyone can.

 

My children have a wealthy daddy.

 

Funny that you mentioned that one. I was play poker one night in KC when one of my friends came up to me and wanted to talk to me. He is an attorney and he has a client in Beverly Hills who had some Africans staying with him. They had a large crate of something they call black money. It supposedly was US currency that was died black. They had a machine that cleans the bills. They showed the machine and put a black bill in an out came a $100 bill. His client was going to buy the crate and the chemicals for $5,000,000. What did I think? I had him take five of the black bills and put them in bleach. Real money is cloth and bleach won't hurt them. He put them in and they dissolved. I called the Secret Service and the Africans were arrested. However, they took them to trial and the jury let them go.