WHY CAN'T WE DRIVERS STICK TOGETHER

Several years ago I met a Schneider company driver that kept retirement in mind. He went to Costa Rica on vacation and met a nice woman there. They eventually married, then he bought a small house in Costa Rica and has that paid for and a nice fishing boat paid for that's tied to a dock behind his house. His wife's brother takes care of the boat and house maintnance. He vacations there couple times a year. He said in 5 more years he can completely retire from Schneider and relocate to Costa Rica with his paid for home & boat and enjoy life with his beautiful wife. Yes, it can be done with discipline.

 

Ok,I got enough of it,I am going on strike!I will be striking from Nov 29 to Feb 2.Come on drivers,lets show them! Who's with me???

 

So true.

 

Again, so true. I am 29, paid off a house in a great part of town. I bought the house at 23, doubled payments, and now have a house that appraised for 216,000 dollars last year. I bought it for 145,000.

The way I did it was a mixture of luck, being extremely conservative with my finances, and risk taking. I started a lawn care business while I worked 12 / 14 hour days. The lawn care business started as a 1 man, 1 mower, 1 truck, 1 trailer, 1 weed eater unit. 5 years later I had a net average of 82,000 dollars per year, 3 trucks, 8 mowers, 4 employees.

I was able to sell half of the business to a friend, the profit paid my house off in full.

I stayed away from drugs and focused. I took personal responsibility for my past (high school drop out), and even earned two associates degrees in that time.

Anyone can do it. I find that if you're willing to do a few things, America makes anything possible.

1. Sacrifice who you are for who you want to be.

2. If you want to be successful, you've got to be willing to give up sleep.

3. Realize the boogie man isn't real. At the end of fear is nothing.

My next adventure in life is truck driving, maybe owning a small company. Even though I know nothing about it, I've learned the value of risk taking. I speak to local high schools in my area and I always end my speech the same way. Be aggressive. An old football coach once told me, if you're causal about life, you'll end up a casualty.

Or maybe I'm just a lucky SOB.

 

Oh no, i completely agree that most owner operators are flat broke. But they have only themselves to blame. There is good paying freight out here, not my fault or yours that they are either to lazy, or to stupid to find it.

The way i read your pay it sounded like you were saying all oo's can't afford to park the truck more than a week.

 

Truckers are independent by their very nature. Getting them to agree on anything is almost impossible.

 

It happend before in egypt cuz the government add a new tax on them so the driver stoped for almost 6 hrs and that tax canceled in the same day

 

When the rest of us were boycotting low-paying, hire-anybody type trucking companies where was the OP? With us or against us?