Being an O/O under a Carrier's Authority

Misesian... I have read all your posts from when you started trucking school and went out on the road your first time... then to buying your first truck and all the way up until today. Very good job man!

I keep listening to all these old farts and truck whiners. They only see that .30 cpm and think thats worse than a company driver... not hearing you say over and over and over again that the .30 cpm was company profit in the bank, not your take home pay and that you pay yourself $32 a year salary first. I think it would shut them up if you started posted your personal salary in the profit margin as a total and not total it with the truck expenses.

Also, to all these guys saying theres better carriers out there paying more...

#1 He quit Knight because they closed down the Northwest Arkansas branch... that should tell you that he is trying to pull for someone local so he can get back to Arkansas every now and again.

#2 These better paying carriers you speak of usually require 2 or more years experience to get hired on... if you listen to the OP, you will see that he's been short on this 2 years and hits it in November.

#3 Stop telling him theres better paying carriers and name off some that have a terminal to work out of up here in the Bentonville/Rogers/Springdale area. Tell him where to go instead of telling him he should go.

The guy went from being a dispatcher to attending driving school and driving as a company driver, to buying his own rig and learning the ins and out of the O/O trade and learning valuable knowledge doing it while he earns his 2 year experience badge. I think he is doing great! If you see a rookie that's 1 month out of truck driving school... are you going to tell him he should be shooting for that .40 cpm mark right away, or are you going to tell him to stick it out with the .25 to .28 cpm pay until he gets a year under his belt? Same thing with Misesian... he is a O/O rookie earning his 2 years experience belt, while learning the O/O trade and learning the in's and outs and the tricks of the O/O game.

Cut him some slack and acknowledge for a rookie O/O, that he is doing AWESOME!

 

Glad to hear your still out there and things are going better

 

Awesome thread . Much success to you .

 

15 cpm is a big step up. But don't get content. Keep searching for better opportunity.

 

You brought your truck over and let them put in a driver facing camera? Or did you get into one of their trucks as a company driver now?

 

Obviously he let them put one into his truck. He didn't get a 15 cpm raise by going from an oo to a company driver.