Feeling lost in the trucking career. Should I go O/O?

@Ridgeline hopefully will give some insight to your plan.

 

Why are you comfortably uncomfortable?

 

The way the business is now, stay stable where you are, boring or not.

 

....or get a job on a cruise ship!

 

Don't waste your money and time buying a truck to lease on somewhere. Guaranteed you'll end up disappointed sooner or later. If you don't see an actual business need somewhere for a customer dependent on trucks you're just another truck driver. And truck drivers are a dime a dozen.

 

Sounds like a pretty sweet gig you are on now. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, but look at everything before you jump. Good luck!!

 

Not sure why you want to buy a truck then lease it to a carrier.All you doing is buying a job sometimes you have to do that depending on where you live and the availability of jobs in your area.But you really won’t end up with any more money than a good job once you figure in truck payments,fuel maintenance insurance it very well could be less money depending on factors like do you have a family and need health insurance.A trucking business when you get right down to it isn’t any different than any other business it comes down to being able to sell your services if you’re good at that get a truck and trailer your own authority that’s where the money is.

 

I wouldn’t lease to a carrier unless you’re going to be doing work you couldn’t do with your own authority.

 

Find a hobby that fits your schedule.
Or got OTR but without becoming O-O. Just understand if you go OTR you will have almost no control over your day. You'll need to do 110% of your job because some office dork can only do 60% of his job. You need to figure out exactly what is causing the "uncomfortable" conclusion. I worked at 1 company for 18 years. I had seniority to make my work day exactly what I wanted and eventually I needed to leave because I could not make it any more perfect and each day or each problem was like Groundhog Day, "this again, don't you people know X and how can you be surprised every day that X is going to happen but every day you are surprised X happened." I switched to tankers (awesome) that caused me to visit every state I hadn't already been to. When I got trips to the NW and Intermountain West I knew I wanted to work there until I retired. So I did that. I was lucky in that each step after I left the 18 year company paid more and more. That allowed me to retire early.

I think you need some challenge, not necessarily changing jobs. The industry is very slow, so I would first look inside your company. Then I would look at a hobby, and then look outside the company. Just don't believe a web site, a recruiter. Make sure if you leave you only leave after you have talked to another driver actually doing now what you want to do and he can show you the "receipts" and not just tell you a tall-tale.