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$25k not nearly enough without any help.
You shouldn't even be allowed to post in this section with 18 months as O/O

 

Hey, I don’t mind. I get to hone my communication skills and elevate my rank on TTR.

 

What do you mean “without any help”?

 

It's all good...

Hope it works out for you on that truck of yours. Yours is a clear example of why I bought a new Volvo 3 years ago.

 

Some of us started the old fashion way, oops should have said that the cool way. Let me start again.
Some of us started old school, or is it old skool?
Any how, I had zero, zilch, nota, nothing when I started. After telling my Dad I quit my job at 23 yrs old and was going to drive truck for a living. I got in his truck and rode and drove with him for 3-4 months. He then look at me and asks me if I was going to drive for someone or buy a truck. I looked at him and said I planned on driving a truck for him. He said F YOU, he tried owning 3 trucks and wasn't doing that again. So he gave me $2500 down and cosigned a note for the rest of $10,500. That's right my first truck AND trailer cost 10,500.
Today you can blow through 10k in fuel and tolls before you get your first pay.

 

I started a thread last year about Volvos. I’ve always wondered what they are like since they have their proprietary engine. Was that a good experience?

 

Absolutely. Just turned 300k miles last month.

 

Plenty of people and they make it work too.
I know of a handful of guys who did it, but they have trucking in the family....uncle’s, cousin’s, brothers, etc...

The support system is probably the most important thing one needs to succeed. (I mean a solid support system of people who know the business.)

Otherwise it’s like opening a restaurant because someone told you your hamburgers were really good. Doomed from the start.