Confused on what semi to buy

Who sounds like he came from somewhere on the other side of the world. Just what this industry needs more of.

 

I’d like to know what Insurance company quoted $13k on a new entrant.

 

because you don’t have the slightest clue what you are in for yet you already have all the answers….

 

This tells peopel who have been around a while a lot about your lack of understanding what it really takes.

This says it all.

Not mocking, we all read this all the time, maybe ten times in a month when there is a push from somewhere outside the industry to make the big bucks.

Yep it is really simple, READ CAREFULLY!!.

First, there is a 95% failure rate for new owner-operators in the country. There are a lot of reasons why, most are lack of work and lack of money management.

We are faced with an overcapacity of nearly 30% and it is not going down all the while the economy has been faltering in some segments while booming in others.

We have too many cheap owner-operators who will take sub-par rates just to keep the bills paid, and we do not have stringent brokerage regulations for transparency (which we won't do until this time next year). Shippers and Consignees are pulling back from moving freight as easily as they used to which in some respects makes sense if there is less freight to move.

All of this presents more of a problem than easy challenges to overcome by those who think it is as easy to get a truck and get work to make big bucks.

We have one thread going where the OP thinks he can get 50 trucks and it magically means money is rolling in, so I wish some of you guys get that we have seen a thousand schemes and ideas, while 99.999% of them do not work, the .001% that does is just plain luck.

 

A job making $10 000 per month stay with it mate that's good money why change?

 

Listen, we get this a lot and most of us just stop paying attention to w.e ur foolish idea is, buts it's 3 pages in and u seem determine.

Get a cdl.
Buy a truck
Get insurance
Apply for mc/dot
File all the paperwork, 2290, mc- 150(I forgot what's it's call)
Plates n tags
Permits
Subscribe to a load board
Boom so ez

Please update us.... In 2 days and tell us how much insurance was.

 

You need to used whoever the driver is to the insurance, ur dispatcher quote would be different than yourself.