I am purely in an info gathering stage,as of now.I haven't made up my mind on anything,except,I know what I want to do.That is work for myself.Other than that,I'm undecided.Undecided on new vs used truck,own authority or leased,etc.I have even looked into broker training,working from home.I appreciatte everyone's assistence.I don't think I'm gonna do anything this year.I currently work for a contractor at Fedex Home Delivery,so I have money coming in.The economy being in such a mess,I may wait till it rebounds,which it will.Even tho I have 13 years transportation experience,mostly local delivery in cargo vans,I still know little of the big picture.The more knowledge I get,from you experienced guys,the better.Thanks
Getting Loads While Using own Authority
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by BigGreg, Jun 3, 2009.
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One other thing.I was stranded in Nebraska for 13 days once.My truck broke down,and after waiting four days to get in the shop it was 2 days later when it was fixed,a blizzard hit and I was stranded.My company,Werner,did not re-imburse me for 13 days in a hotel or front me any money,since I wasn't moving.I did not have enough money to pay my bill and eat.Luckily,the hotel agreed to a payment plan,automatically deducted from my checking account over a 4 week period.I know working for myself wouldn't have made that easier,but it shows how companies work.And I won't go to Nebraska in January.lol
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Did they expect you to sleep in the truck (i'm assuming you had a sleeper cab)? Is that why they didn't reimburse you?
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The truck was at a repair shop,forget the name of the company,and truck had no power or facilities while sitting on their property.Stayed at a hotel about 3 miles away.Werner was just anal about the whole thing,pissed that their truck broke down after supposedly being fixed at their terminal 3 weeks earlier.Tried to say,I damaged it somehow.Just a shady company.
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LDH26, for 7-10 grand, you won't get much of a truck, a worn out 3 million mile Freightshaker will cost you 15 grand. And, trucking 13, fyi, 3 per cent of $1000 is $30, not $3.
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Big John Thanks this.
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well thank you for trying to give me a math lesson Allow Me, but i know that it was a typo not the fact that i don't know
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For me the trailer issue is the concern. Any suggestions on cost reduction here? I don't see many decent refer trailers for sale, at reasonable cost. -
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It's all a crap shoot anyways. You can leave the lot with a $50,000 truck and throw a rod, tranny, rear end or turbo in the first hour the same as an $8,000 one.
Some people are lucky, some are not. There is no formula for success. I started out with no experience 3 years ago. Went from an engineering job to hiring a private instructor to get my CDL, bought a truck, trailer and got my own authority and just went out and did it. I paid cash for everything and had about $15,000 left over to operate on.
I got into a groove with some good loads going from Chicago to El Paso and back again for a few months. I was really humping it in the beginning doing close to 700 miles per day. I didn't spend any money on anything I didn't need and before long I had over $35,000 on hand. I had no breakdowns on a truck that had 800,000 miles on it.
If you don't have any bills you can do ok in tough times. It just takes a little luck.newly crusin and LDH26 Thank this.
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