Best time to get a truck huh?

This is not an endorsement or pitch to join, but OOIDA
does have some good tools and educational things on the web site worth using.

Take a look at the web site, look for the tabe that says tolls and education.

or just use this link. Education & Business Tools, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association

 

An additional resource is NASTC.

They have a good fuel card plus a number of other programs.

 

Dude the first thing in successful business is not to be a partner of a friend or family member, it is a fast way to ruin a friendship or cause problems in a family.

 

First yr Insurance for a $64,000 Truck and 2010 dryvan under my own Authority is close to $1500 a month . Your mpg @ 5.5 geez doing 75 mph ?
I ran through my maintence fund quick with new injectors and trailer maintence. Long first year but trailer will be paid off and should see a dip in i surance cost . Goodluck .

 

First and formost is the important decision.

What are you going to do, and where do you want to do that.

All the numbers games can be played for all your worth, they are one of the last things that should be considered.
They have no value to anything if you don’t have a plan.
The who, what, why, when and where of it all.

Answer the questions, then you can form the plan, from that you can start working to put together your equipment needs, that will drive the numbers. Sort of working it backwards.

 

I use 8500 miles a month when doing the math on a proposed new carrier. If the math doesn’t work out with that low of miles, then I look else where. Then if you do actually get 12,000 miles, well then you’re making bacon.

 

Let me take the haze out of your eyes...

Insurance on my newly minted MC is $1500/mo and I dont have a trailer. I was priced using a "ghost trailer" with 30K trailer interchange (required by coyote)

As it has been said before, and I will repeat it again.... EMISSIONS TRUCKS are not good starter trucks.

The cascadia's you are looking at will burn $8K hole in your pocket if the 1-box goes out (dpf/def related stuff)

p.s. my truck is paid off, and has been sitting since July this year as I navigated the trials & tribulations of leasing on and finally settling to getting my own MC --- to cut the crap with the other Authority owner wanting to run me like a dog (even though it's "no forced dispatch")