A Noobs Business Plan.... or.... Working harder for less money

Admit it, running "outlaw" was what everybody always loved about trucking. I don't know any bullhauler who'd give up their Pete or KW for a desk job or any other job.

 

Do you have any friends that haul cattle? Or possibly own cattle? If you do, you can probably ask them to pull some strings for you.

Don’t just up and quit your bread and butter.
I do enjoy the hell out of truckin. But now, I’d like to build an old rig, modernize it, put a tilt bed on the back (to carry my motorcycle)and a coffin sleeper, and try my hand at being a pilot car. Or just roam the country.

 

Definitely wouldn't give up 85k in my pocket to go drive truck! It's not glitz n glamour and haul8ng cattle isn't a job for a novice to learn on.Id stay at my 85k job,save for retirement then buy a long nose Pete and huge 5th wheel the day I retire n cruise the state's

 

M11's or N11's etc are not engines that go fast.

What they will do is tip toe around like mountain goats on questionable roads. But are not Macks.

I had a engine like that for almost a year running steel and aluminum and it was not governed, but again not a fast truck. The last thing you wanted was fast with coils.

I understand over a million calves drowned this spring so far in the floods. It will take years to replace the loss. In the mean time I expect meat prices to go up and the plants to be short of cattle delivered. We are already making ready by getting a floor freezer and buying beef for it through the summer to be frozen. Come winter we should bypass the initial price increases.

 

Troll?

 

Hand, I’m not saying not to truck, I’m saying make sure that’s what you want to do before you quit. Do that by seeing if one of the cattle people nearby will let you work on the weekend or your time off.

I learned to turn wrenches by hanging out with people that turned wrenches. I didn’t want to be a mechanic, I just wanted to be able to turn my own wrenches.

 

Yep. When it happens the OP may have to pay another driver/trucking company to finish the trip, plus pay for repairs. I'm a city kid, but it's my impression few loads are more time sensitive than livestock. If that's true, breakdowns must be prevented, or have a plan and money to deal with one when it happens.

 

Keep your dream, but why not learn the job on somebody's payroll? Once you have learned the driving portion buy equipment. I think the statistic is 90+% of new drivers do not finish their first year. A LOT of that are people with poor work history quitting this job like they quit their last 9 jobs. A LOT of that is a "civilian" rolling the dice and letting Google decide where to work after they watch a couple of YT videos.

Two things are certain:
1. You can learn the skills and do this job
2. You can get hired

The wildcard is the results after 1 & 2 depend on your research and the match between you and the trucking company.