A hopefully future or a crushed dream?

Insurance will run you around 9 grand a year.

Tag will be around 1500 bucks.

2290 is 550 bucks.

Tires around 400 bucks each.

That's just for starters.........good luck!

You can cut those prices some if you lease to a company.

But then your not really an OO.

 

Why would you not be an O/O, because you lease to a company? Lease from a company? Well, maybe that would apply.
Years ago, I signed my Volvo on with a company pulling cans from the Chicago railyards. My truck, their tags, permits, and such. Was I not an O/O?

 

Winner.

BEFORE you buy a truck, figure out what you want to do. The bouncing from FedEx to PTL to Prime is like going from a Camaro to a SmartCar to a LeCar. I'd rather drive a junky Camaro and fix what's wrong. BTW, tell your "friend" to lose your contact info. He'd screw you in a New York minute.

Gonna tell you a secret: if you go out and buy a truck, money will not miraculously pour in. And problems you have in trucking don't disappear. Don't just buy a truck. Find out where you want to be and what you want to do and where you want to do it, THEN buy the truck. Get to the happy place, then buy.

 

No. Just a company driver with a few more expenses.

I talked to a couple companies recently about leasing on.

Had to put their name on truck. Could no longer go get my own hay with my truck when I needed to. Could no longer use my tractor to haul my enclosed toy hauler to colorado for vacation.

No thanks. I would rather still be an OO and do everything myself.

 

Hmmmm.......so I wasn't an O/O, just a company driver with more expenses? Gee, I wish you had told me that before I took the plunge!
I wouldn't have put down a substantial payment at the dealership, I wouldn't have bought all that fuel, paid all those taxes, kept all those records, did all that maintenance, and a whole lot of other things.
I should have just told the company "you do it, I'm just a company driver". Thanks for enlightening me, I'm sure going to sleep a whole lot better after you set me straight!

 

I would not be willing to take this risk and headaches associated with owning a truck and have heard too many bad stories about it.

 

No problem. You made the right move.

It's even harder as an O/O.

 

and what move was that?

 

Bwahahah
Hey boys, we got a real supertrucker right here! I am humbled by his mere presence. Why I bet the FMCSA asks him for clarification on regulations.
It's good to know that people with clear title to their equipment who have their own employee drivers aren't real O/O either. What was I ever thinking? Y'all should have told me years ago that I was wasting my time because I run under someone else's numbers.
At least we have his highness King ####### to enlighten us!
All hail the supertrucker!

 

Oh man... Company driver with more expenses? Katy bar the door! I have heard it all now.