Coastie Going O/O at last

Coastie,

Understandable and I hope you get more miles next time.

KH

 

How bad are we talking? Do they compare to quallcomm or something?

 

there is no independance in being an owner operator with big companies anymore. they have done everything they can to make sure there is also no profit.
the old timers wouldn't even recognize the current owner operator invironment as anything close to being an owner operator. they only way to be free and happy is to get away from any company of any considerable size.

 

Couldn't agree more MM. In the 1980's I was paid .84p/mile lded and .65p/mile empty. Don't see much difference today except for the price of fuel. Today the companies pay .90p/mile lded and empty, but fuel is $2.67 a gallon. The thing I notice though is how the companies want to run an O/O like they do the company trucks. O/O's are NOT company trucks. I got away from the big companies in the late 80's and started looking for smaller regional companies. For the most part companies that only ran 25-30 states and stayed away from the East because of Tolls, high fuel, etc etc. Best move I ever made. I don't understand today why everyone seems to think they have to lease to a BIG company. The last company I was leased to ran 26 states and I consistently ran 2400-2700 miles a week and home most weekends. I don't know how to do it but maybe there needs to be a area on here for regional companies so O/O' would have some more options. There are some good ones out there. JMO

 

Sorry to hear about your misfortunes Coastie. Did you get a positive response on any other companies you were looking into?

KH