“Part time” O/O?

Unless your one of those run hard 3 seasons out of the year guys, the words part time and owner operator never seem to work well together

 

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Mercer allows me to use my truck for the farm. But that's going 30 miles to get hay. But im fairly confident if I tried to run 500 miles to a race track they would tell me no no and hell no.

 

A couple of questions...
How many races per year?
Is the racing team a stand alone business with OPM or just the owners hobby?

 

I run part time with my truck for hire and the other part of the time for the farm. The easiest way is to have your own numbers insurance etc etc etc. Then find a company or someone that needs some help with loads sometimes. Thats how I started getting off the farm, now anytime I'm not in a combine or tractor I'm usually in my semi. It doesn't make great money but it makes enough to pay all of its bills threw the year and run all that I need to with the farm, lets me have the down time I need to farm, and still brings in extra. I just run local and do a little over 50K miles a year. So it stays pretty busy when its not in the field. I drive and do everything my self so I dont have to pay full time wages to another driver. What you are trying to do can work, but it takes work, someone that wants to be busy all the time, either with the race team or running loads right away when they aren't with the team, and most of all finding a dependable source of freight that doesn't need a full time truck, just part time. You can even say for each load that the person gets you they get X% of the load just for finding you the load, pretty much like a broker but more just " We could use some help here and would like a finders fee" kind of thing.