For an O/O of one and only one tractor, what are the annual net profits?

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  1. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    So no one can answer your question.
    See net is very hard to answer for a company driver, impossible to answer for a company owner.
    A few factors we don't know about are stuff like state income tax, garnishments (child support), health insurance, any other insurance like life, etc. Just way too many variables. Owning a business, and don't think being an O\O isn't, it get very complex very fast on where the line between company expenses and driver pay lay.
    Of course you could simply pay yourself as a driver and everything left over at the end of the year is a bonus, but even that can be complex.
     
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  3. TomCougar

    TomCougar Light Load Member

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    I'm a bachelor, age 55. Never married, no kids, never will. The family costs don't pertain to me. There's no state income tax in Texas but I can't headquarter my truck sim game there. My edition only has CA, AZ and NV maps.
     
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    I couldn't imagine playing a video game of my job..
     
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    @TomCougar

    Those turn signals you changed for the fenders are called "Lollipops"

    I prefer the look myself
     
  6. snowwy

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    Must have a steam account.

    I have msft flight simulator. I have the dvd but haven't played it in awhile. I figured after a few years it outta be improved. Only to find out msft got out of the game and now it's sold through steam.

    Needless to say. It don't work.

    I see msft is back in though. With real time graphics and scenery. Supposed to come out anytime now.

    I'm not going to waste my time with steam.
     
  7. Midwest Trucker

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    Buddy of mine told me about twitch.tv

    You can get on there and watch other people play games in a live stream of what they are seeing plus see them sitting in their chair playing it and talking.

    Turns out this trucking game is in there and I watched for a while. Also checked out iracing which is a simulator for basically any race car in the world. Then you got all the first person shooters and about every other game.

    Question at the OP... I saw some people in a convoy and then they pulled into the truck stop and split into smaller convoys depending on where they were delivering. In the game do you really have to sit for hours on hours driving hundreds of miles? It was pretty awesome how the game makers have literally mapped everything out. If they get my state I’d probably get the game just for fun.

    Edit: Oh and btw the people on twitch.tv that have their own channel where people watch them play actually make money depending on how many people are watching. Very interesting I had never heard of that before.
     
  8. snowwy

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    Just like the flight simulator game. You have to sit their and control the plane untill you land where ever your going. You can fly to any airport in the world.
     
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    If you’re taking a load to Elko and bobtailing back I know of a company that has containers moving from winnemucca to the bay
     
  10. TomCougar

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    The lollipop lights are such American classic. The old man next door had them on his 1951 olive-drab International pickup bought as surplus from the air force at Hamilton Field, Novato, CA. They are common on older generation Army trucks and on old fire engines. I like chrome ROUND mirrors and round marker/directional lights on Harley-Davidsons also, not the modern tube-TV screen-shaped ones.
     
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