Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by double yellow, Nov 5, 2014.

  1. Skate-Board

    Skate-Board Road Train Member

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    They don't run with your name, they change it. Customers only go by your MC number to see how long you've been in business.
     
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  3. MagnumaMoose

    MagnumaMoose Lost or Missing

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    Yesterday there were at least two ads in the classified section here that want to buy Authority or a company.
     
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  4. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    It's always people thinking they're going to shortcut a way to riches. Trucking attracts a lot of those. A fool and his money are soon parted.
     
  5. boredsocial

    boredsocial Road Train Member

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    What was your name on 2p2?
     
  6. csmith1281

    csmith1281 Medium Load Member

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    @wichris @Woobie The whole point is that if you own the shop, you keep the profit the shop makes rather than sending that money to another person or business. This is called vertical integration, and it is done all day every day in every industry. You’re right that it might not make sense if you were only trying to service a few of your own trucks. That’s why it would be a good idea to open up shop to the public. Of course, that’s another core competency in another business line requiring investment and management. For some businesses it makes sense to integrate, for others it doesn’t.
     
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  7. Scooter Jones

    Scooter Jones Road Train Member

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    That reminded me of this
     
  8. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    It won't let me pm you?

    Sounds like you have a business background. Or are you an autodidact too? What are you planning long term?
     
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  9. spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    For some reason ttr disables the pm ability of brokers. They probably had a few bad ones soliciting trucks.
     
  10. boredsocial

    boredsocial Road Train Member

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    I was just curious. I know your job before trucking was poker. Being you were a trucking forum poster I was guessing you were on 2p2. I was wondering if I knew you. You get no credit for guessing my name on 2p2.
     
  11. double yellow

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    Ah, I was going to pm my 2p2 name since it is the same handle I used on most of the poker sites, but TTR won't let me. I wasn't anybody though and don't think I knew you.

    I haven't posted there since black friday. I spent most of my time in the sections on books or SNGs, aside from blowing off steam in NVG... Wish I got into investing back then though, was that section even around in the 2000s?

    I started with live 1/2 & then 2/5 NL. I fooled around in small stakes online STTs before getting into a groove with $20-$100 turbo 6max SNGs, especially on AP/UB. Those games were like printing money in the post-Moneymaker era...

    Then the great recession hit & by 2010 it became like 4-5 regulars and 1 or 2 fish. For a math player just playing the odds & not the other players that is basically breakeven, which makes for pretty wild variance, which can make you play badly, which then turns breakeven play to negative... So for 2011 I dropped stakes and basically became a mass-tabling small stakes MTT tagfish making almost as much from rakeback as from the games.
     
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