Starting own business for dummies

Boy was I mistaken as to what you wanted..... you want to be a trucker but you want to be home every night and not run nights and make ridiculous money.

Find some regional job then. Go haul gravel or crude oil if you wanna make bank. Or haul intermodel or get on a fed ex or ups run.

 

To the OP, just for the heck of it, call an INSURANCE agent/broker and get a quote, then come back on here and let us know what you find out.

 

I'm looking to start my own business my wife is pretty much a stay-at-home wife who works part-time with a college degree in accounting and I'm looking to get her into becoming a freight broker and buying my own truck and have her run my loads for me I've been driving for a little over 2 years I don't have every answer in the trucking industry have other family members that also drive and own truck's so my question is do you think it is a good idea to have one truck and have your wife get all the experience to become a freight broker and running and set up your business in that aspect I also have about 10 grand ready to put down on a truck do you think that's enough I'm looking for some advice and help and tips thank you if you're going to be rude please do not commentthank you. Also where can i go to create my plan and get I'll the steps needed to start up and should I just lease on first or get my own authoritiesauthority ???

 

You may already be aware of this, but www.OOIDA.com is a business website for owner-operators.

 

Yep when they quote 15-20k reality will set in

 

Insurance haha who needs it.

 

OP: don't be discouraged.

I bought a $15,000 daycab bc I didn't want to sleep in a truck. I leased on with a company that had a contract with OmniSource. I ran scrap metal for six months while I saved my money.

After six months of local work, I bought an inexpensive trailer, got my authority and started running the load boards.

I have to work but I work when I want. I usually run hard for a week then do a light week. I don't run nights and I take time off to be with my family when I want or need to.

The insurance comes due monthly and the tags and taxes come due yearly.

If you can find a good truck that you won't be paying for forever, you can make this happen.

Worse case- you fail and go back to company driver.

 

Honestly all the information that everyone is looking for starting their own trucking business out there. People need to stop being so da am lazy and want it fed to them. I started my business almost 2 years ago, read up on every little thing that sounded important and took notes for my self. I avoided many big mistakes being READING advice that had already been given. I am an o/o own authority, didn't pay anyone to do register this or that for me, because its actually pretty easy to do these days. There's a lot of extra stuff you have to besides just driving, it's not hard once you've done that stuff a time or 2. So good luck to future owner ops, just do yourself a favor and educate yourselves.