Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

i meant your trailer red

 

Not sure if it's me but your very first post and second are screwed up?????

 

I only haul dry birds. I meant the outside of the trailer. Mine are the old fashioned ones that turn gray over time. Unless I'm careful only to take lanes where good weather is always happening.

 

No disrespect intended here..
But..
Imagine if you had to make Truck/Trailer & Mortgage Payments, plus support a Wife & Kid/s out of that $53,600..
It really is a Single Mans game, for the first few years starting out until you get established build some business momentum.
I went through all this over a 1/4 of a Century ago..

 

I am sure clean new trucks dont get inspected as often
we are borderline intervention status all the time
and in 22 months i been here just one level one and one level 3
I keep telling the owner I want a new black trailer with alum wheels
He said my wife told him not to get it she couldn't afford the polish bills or all the lights I would add
shhhhhhhhhhh just our lil secret

 

Just to add one thing I learned when telling people about my time off is that most of its forced. One week the truck was in the shop then another week it's in the shop again and then the worse if it all is getting a half decent load from where we live. I think the best thing to do is reduce cost wherevera possible

 

I disagree. if anything, adding kids to the mix made me a lot more responsible with my money. The vast majority of people don't have an income problem, they have a spending problem. dy would have done just fine with a truck payment and family bills. Obviously not as good, but he would of survived.

 

i have made as little as $20000 and as much as $270000 in a year
over the last 25 years, Had new cars and old cars. Big fancy houses on the ocean and a 20 year old trailer in a park
mostly it never changes who I am or how I feel when I wake up
raised 8 kids on 3 marriages and no one ever starved on $53000