Anybody else tired of this??

The issue is going to a place that does it for that much.
I replaced the radiator a year and a half ago for less than $1500. Motor harness should not be more than $2000 with labor - if you are not too sloppy with your work organization, you can do it yourself under the sunny sky, starting early afternoon and finishing before it gets too dark.

 

An old paid off truck that gets the job done helps. A late model lemon with high payments, yeah, only big fleets can afford that monkey business.

 

I'd get a little bored doing that 5 days a week.

 

75% of this thread blames the owner. And can't figure out what's missing.

25% of this thread knows it's the truck and calls it a lemon.

 

Being owner operator isn’t for the faint of heart. Unexpected repairs are going to happen, the key is to have the money set aside in a maintenance account so those repairs don’t put you in a hole you can never dig yourself out of.

OP probably paid twice what that 2019 was worth, and didn’t have much of a safety net fund built up before getting into business. Just another individual who saw the “crazy money” being made over the last few years in trucking, ran out overpaid for his truck, and got his authority, and is failing, but he will be one of those people using the “you can’t make any money in trucking” line.

 

Guess I am illegitimate then.

 

The truck may be a lemon, or even a pos entirely, the obvious answer here is kick that thing out the door and buy something else, something about 20 years older in my opinion. Guy has a pretty gravy run going really.

 

maybe he/him is a heavy smoker $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

yep..but buying a 20 year truck isn't the answer either. Those things break down alot too.

In 2016 I started driving a 2007 w900. It don't like to work.

 

To the o/p.
There is a lot to this. I have been out of work for 3 weeks. Do to one thing after another. And I'm less than than 2 years lease operator. Ive been emotionally and finaicaily beaten #### near to death these last three weeks.
I would suggest you remember once you went thru the o/o process your not just a boss, your also a investor. Knowagle is power in thiz industry. A good set of tools, YouTube and this fourm here. You can fix about anything on your truck.
Secondly as a investor you have to question. The heck out of every shop you go to. A harness and a raditor in one month almost seems fishy, espaicaly know you could have done the radiator.
Thirdly if your not under contract with this dedicated load then go explore. Rates are different all over the country. I'm sorry to be so blunt but why haul 48k loads if you can haul 28k loads?...
I wish you much luck. But don't get that bad frame of mind out here or you will never make it....
As Grammy would say. Cheer up butter cup. The rates will go back up sooner or later.