Can I become an owner operator with no experience?

Get hired on in food service, take the 80-110k a year for a few years to save up. Watch what everyone you see is hauling while you’re out and about… research where the freight is coming from… go from there. Idk. Just a thought.

I’d love to own a business too. However, I’ll make shy of 110k this year on 200 ish days of work and I don’t own any of it. But I have a fairly good understanding of the numbers of being o/o and according to my spreadsheets, I couldn’t come close to matching that pay, let alone being in my own bed every night.

I don’t think anyone here wants you to give up if it’s your mission to be a o/o. just reset your expectations. An

 

Go back and look for some of the insurance threads. Some of those guys were getting quotes for $35,000.