Going owner op with Werner

Yeah, it' pretty awesome in a grItty industrial way. I usually avoid that route because of traffic, but sometimes I'll take it on a weekend morning just for the views if I'm hauling something towards Milwaukee. Nice to actually see Chicago itself instead of the usual Aurora, Joliet type of places.

 

I am responsible for truck and bobtail insurance, comes out to about $250 a month. I don't know if that's good or bad, but it seems reasonable. I have paid that much or more for car insurance when I was younger and had an iffy driving record.

Oh, there's also apparently a requirement for workers comp insurance, which is surprisingly annoying and kinda expensive, like $150 a month. Why do they even require that from non-employees?

 

I don't really have one. It's just turtles all the way down

 

Oh well, that makes sense I guess.

 

I thought of that, I'm that way about cars - I always just buy an old junker for a couple of thousand instead of bothering with car loans and stuff. But I'm a little bit iffy about doing that with a truck, I just don't feel like I know enough about them to tell a decent one from a lemon. And I have gotten kinda spoiled by these smooth comfy new Cascadias I've been driving. They're like giant mellow Camrys. Old trucks, like the ones that I trained on in CDL class, too much like farm tractors.

 

Another thing about that is a lot of the fleet type companies, even Landstar, required newer trucks. So I'd have to also buy a trailer, so I can go independent. And that puts me quite a bit over budget.