Outback sounds good to me as long as a mileage pays. Sitting around for a couple of hours waiting for a trailer ton be washed it's not my idea of fun. But I'm easy going I'll try to make anything work, and being new meat I know I'll have the ####ier loads until late I prove myself
I saved as much as I have, and need to work with what I have to make #### happen.
It's not the best business model there is to have written up but at least I have a plan written.
If I had the money to put down on a glider I would, but I have money to put down on a lease, and operating expenses for a while, am I missing something?
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So you don't have enough money. You're not ready for this. Trucking isn't going to disappear next month, next year, or even 5 years from now. You read what Ridgeline posted the failure rate for new o/o is 70%?
Number 1 reason mismanagement, and number 2 reason mechanical failures. You're starting yourself off mismanaged right from the start being undercapitalized. Take the time to do this right and set yourself up for success.blade Thanks this. -
Maybe try going with them as a company driver first and save a little more cash. I don't know what your location is in relationship to Albany but they are always hiring local/regional drivers. Feel the company out first and see if they're even someone you would want to lease on with.
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Thank you for the info, that's the best way to inform someone, very true and said professionally.joshuapowell61 and blade Thank this.
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So how much are the payments on these lipstick laden pigs?
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Thanks, that makes sence, I am an eager thick headed business minded individual. I've started out negative bank rolled when I bought my 1st multifamily investment property at the age of 20 and my 2nd by the time I was 22, bought a truck at 23 and ran that lemon for over 2 years and as the market started to #### the bed I sold the truck and kept the homes and started with a company that had 2 trucks, I helped grow that company by purchasing another 16 trucks, heavy equipment, trailers, and a rail car mover. Went in to dispatch, compliance, managed 20+ drivers and laborers, as well as found all back hauls. I negotiated rates, did the billing and made sure i was paid, I was never formally trained in anything, I stepped up and made it all come together and workEd like a well oiled machine. I was in charge of a whole lot and kept taking it on, I am done with that, I need to do for myself and live for my own dreams and beliefs. Unlike the average driver dreaming of being an O/O not knowing much, I've been there, lived it and put all I had in to a company that got so big and had to move in to a different direction due to a millennium crybaby gunning for my job. Made up b.s. getting me fired because she threatened law suit, my boss had no balls.
I'm done with company, its all on me or I'll just get the ####ing out of trucking for good,
If trucking QC don't work I have a back up, I all ways have a plan!blade Thanks this. -
Around 550 a week
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Not to get personal but either you had a recent divorce that cleaned you out or for a smart guy you have made some really poor choices to not have or be able to acquire capital especially with investments that should have capital in them
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Divorce, and I'm finally above water now getting things back up and going.blade Thanks this.
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All I'm going to do is wish you good luck and I hope it works out better for you then it did for many others either on this forum or that I know personally.
You really should say this out loud, that you're ok with a $2,200 month truck payment, plus insurance & plates AND leasing too a company you have no history with and that other's have said it's a bad idea.p608, blade and HalpinUout Thank this.
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