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Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by double yellow, Nov 5, 2014.

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  1. Dec 10, 2015 #1281
    Tropsnart

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    You should reconsider doing the Ice Road Truckers thing.
     
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  3. Dec 10, 2015 #1282
    Skate-Board

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    Lol....I don't think so. That looks really hard. Everyone is hustling their brains out to do as many loads as they can.
     
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  4. Dec 10, 2015 #1283
    Tropsnart

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    I bet you could make the show very entertaining.
     
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  5. Dec 10, 2015 #1284
    Skate-Board

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    Hugh would beat me up
     
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  7. Dec 10, 2015 #1285
    Tropsnart

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    When I was a young man I thought I'd only drive truck for a while til something better came along. Almost twenty years later here I am still at it. I just can't figure out how a software engineer and a pro poker player would ever want to do this.
     
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  8. Dec 10, 2015 #1286
    Skate-Board

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    I'm not a poker player at all. I don't play cards. The Software Engineer part. Well, the economy tanked and pretty much every new job I got went out of business real quick or the competition bought them up. After a while I just didn't care anymore other then collect a paycheck. It grows old.
     
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  9. Dec 10, 2015 #1287
    Tropsnart

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    Didn't DY play pro poker?
     
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  10. Dec 10, 2015 #1288
    Skate-Board

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    Oh oh. Misunderstood you. I don't know.
     
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  11. Dec 10, 2015 #1289
    double yellow

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    I did the tanker thing for a winter month in ND. I actually liked the work, but the shady company I was with took 4 months to pay (and only after legally escalating the matter every few weeks).

    Same thing there, though -- you heard all kinds of stories about guys making $100k, but never mentioning running 18+ hours/day and 30,000lb overweight. Do it legal and working sensible hours, and by the time you factored taxes & living expenses you were better off OTR, at least as someone without enough tanker experience to get on with thr big players...

    For me it is all about the MTBB -- mean time between ########. Not many other professions offer me the chance to wake up when I feel like it, send a quick check-in email with a customer, and then have the rest of the day under the watchful eye of no one but the DOT -- hopefully repeating that for a day or two before delivering across the country.

    I did until Black Friday.
     
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  12. Dec 10, 2015 #1290
    Tropsnart

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