HELP.! Can L/P actually be done successfully.??

That actually sounds like you are insulting me. My success was with dart back in 2007. I actually finished first lease and traded for a brand new one. That's when I fell ill and was in the hospital for 2 months and recovering on my brother in laws couch for another 3 months. It was a terrible experience as I died on the operating table 2 times and once in icu. My health has never been the same since. Plus I lost every material thing in the world I had. So im triggered and insulted thst you would suggest I made it up about succeeding and would still be doing it. Try to know what you're talking about before you start judging.

 

Can it be done? Sure. Many have. Are YOU likely to be sucessful? That depends. If you find a good company, a good contract, keep clean, work hard, make smart choices, learn to do your own work and have a decent amount of luck and not too many breakdowns. Sure.

Want to be a flipflopper on the dash steering wheel holder? Not a chance in bloody hell.

 

I read what @blairandgretchen wrote and didn't see half the things you seem to be reading into his/her/their message about you. BTW, being triggered is a you problem, not a signal to the world someone did something wrong to you. Can I pick some topics in which nobody can disagree with me? Nobody accused you of making up anything. It seems the point B&G made is you did L/P, and you stopped doing L/P, and if it was such a great thing to do and you were doing it, you are are not still doing it. The reasons why and the details of what caused any of that were not even hinted at. If you don't want your life talked about don't post it online. If you post it online people are free to reach a conclusion other than your conclusion.

 

"Now that I have jumped off this skyscraper, can someone tell me how to sew a parachute? I'm in a bit of a hurry."

 

Probably the key to being successful is keeping the truck loaded and rolling and getting good MPG. So not driving fast and keeping idle time low if possible. You work the holidays and not a lot of vacation time. You can’t be very picky on the loads and destinations. I’m assuming they are dispatching you. If not then you have pick the good loads yourself and that still probably going place like the northeast if the load pay good and you have a load to get out of northeast.

Sitting and waiting for a great paying load is not always the best idea because it costs money to just sit. Your loosing time and some claim a great paying load load won’t make up for time you lose sitting not making any money.

It’s not easy if the trucking company controls your load options and truck payment because they will always take the truck payment even when loads are slow or not paying good.

 

If you leased onto a big company that hire new drivers. You could look at being a trainer maybe. That could be more stressful also two guys in truck rolling 24/7. Seen videos of guy at Prime doing that but they also changed the rules and now the L/P guy also has to pay the students themselves and Prime set the rates from what I heard. So that not a good deal from video on YouTube.

 

My most sincere apologies.

 

Lol that perfectly sums up most of the trucking business

 

Apology accepted.

 

I am glad you two worked that out, like adults.
Been on and off this site for, (I dont no) 2
Decades or more? Have spent countless hours reading both of your posts.
I can understand where B&G was coming from (but not meaning to insult you)
I can also understand why you would be absolutley insulted!