Please Help Me With My Situation

The company that does that is a good one from what I have heard. It is called Expediter's something, I forget their full name. They have company drivers also. I would suggest starting out company with your friend for at least a year and if you both still like it move over to O/O. Best wishes!

Edited to add: Looked it up and the company is Expediter Services.

 

You heard wrong.

Expedite freight through custom critical and panther is not making $10k month in your pocket.

 

Personally I'd recommend a company posistion first.
See if you take to it.
It may seem like anyone can do it and many try but you have to like it to succed and if you enjoy it then you'll find success.
But wait till you get a grip on the lifestyle and the hardhips and expense of this career, THEN you can make a better informed decision.

 

You can make more money running solo I think than as a team of new O/O. I’m just beginning in trucking, but like you have a BSBA and know how the numbers games work. It might be another story if you had two trucks and were each driving your own.

 

Your friend is very wrong which is why nothing about your post made sense. There's good money to be had in the world... For properly capitalized trucking industry veterans. The trucking business is probably the worst get rich quick scheme imaginable. All the people I know killing it right now aren't even on their first market cycle much less first year in trucking. The vast majority have been around 5+ years and all have been around at least 3. Those are minimum times since the average time the business is probably 20+ years for the people really crushing it right now.

You strike me as a decent enough kid in his early 20's so I'll save you some trouble... success in get rich quick schemes is mostly about luck, and if you summed up all the time and money poured into them vs all the money that came back out it would have a negative ROI.

You're a finance guy... what kind of jobs are you applying to in finance? I was an econ guy, but I was in a substantially weaker spot than you are resume wise like 5 years ago and now I'm a reasonably successful freight broker.

 

First off I am a recruiter. Next, I can't hire new drivers with less than two years in the business, company or Owner op. Next. I was a driver for 21 years including 8 as an owner operator. Those things being said here it goes.

You have a business degree so you are capable of learning the business. Most of the money being made in the business is not being made by drivers. Go to work for a medium sized carrier and stick it out through the rookie bullcrap they feed you. While you are there learn everything you can about the way the business actually works. learn about FMCSR regs. Learn about rates. Learn about lanes and business cycles. Stay away from lease purchase plans, the good ones are few and far between. While you are learning get in touch with some hiring people and head hunters and see if you can get a job in operations. This will use your degree and give you an opportunity to learn a LOT more. Then see if you want to buy a truck. You may decide to buy a truck, hire a driver and continue to work in the office. A lot of trucking companies started this way. Anyway the answer is to educate yourself.

I hope this helped.