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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gypsy-soul, post: 6149595, member: 198720&quot;]I been in your shoes. Trust me. My grandfather drove and owned his own company just like my father and now me and my brother.&nbsp; Look it&#039;s fine and dandy you want to jump out there and make it work. You probably can, but I have over 10 plus years experience. Have more passed on knowledge than most guys could dream getting in this business and you just don&#039;t get it. All I&#039;m saying is do some homework. Research. Drive in the snow first. Heck with one month under your tail you couldn&#039;t possibly have driven more than 7 states. I&#039;m no super trucker but I have been literally to each 48 state and canda/nova Scotia.&nbsp; What are you going to haul. Dry van? Every foreigner and his momma and McDonald&#039;s cook is now in it and guess what the rates are garbage. I grew up not hauling anything under 4.50 a miles. Then we went to 3.50 just to survive then it went to so much crap your basically working for everyone else.&nbsp; Look you seem educated. But book smarts and construction are 2 different things from operating your own rig and surviving. If you got so much money saved up you can blow it and lose it all like playing the stock market and then walk away and have a sip of bourbon and forget it never happened that&#039;s fine. All I&#039;m saying is coming from someone who was green and still is everyday. I don&#039;t get complacent. I know my limits. I make what I can and go home to my wife and kids. It&#039;s a tough life buddy. Look everyone is gonna tell you no on here cause honestly you just got in this which is true. Not trying to kill your dream.&nbsp; It must may be wiser to sit back. Enjoy getting a pay check and learning on someone else&#039;s dime. Unless your filthy rich and don&#039;t have kids or a wife go ahead. U can probably make it work but get u a really good warranty. Your gonna need it if you don&#039;t know your way around a truck putting it in the shop each week with an epa crap truck hauling 1.10 miles or best load or less than that and trying to pay all the overhead and upkeep.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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