How did ya all get started?

My dad told me If your gonna be a trucker the first thing you need to do is have surgery to get your brain removed.

 

My roommate was a trucker on summer break asked me if I wanted to ride for the summer and that was it the bug bite me, been trucking ever since that summer.

 

Started on the farm,grain,hay trucking in the 60's.Always liked tinkering on equipment,trucks,cars,went to work as a mechanic at a factory IHC truck shop,out of high school.Worked there for a few years,learned a lot,saved some money,bought my first rig in 1974,stayed with it,retired last year.Whole lot easier to get a license and get into trucking back then,no truck schools or any of that bs.If you wanted to work,drive a truck,used your head,you could get hired.

 

well mine is kinda a long story but i am a bit bored at the moment. i was working for a company that was in the construction feild, i was a lead supervisor/forman. i traveled allover country. a small part of my job was hauling our equipment from job site to job site. i was on a real screwed up job in Dallas Texas, the contractor had kicked another one of our foreman off the job and i was sent there to clean up the mess was managing our aspect of a project in Missouri witch was my project but i was in Dallas cleaning up that mess both projects were going to wrap up in about 3 weeks when i got a call from a family member who owned a couple trucks that were pulling tanker in north dakota (i live in ND) he was looking for a driver and wanted to know if i was interested. i agreed called my current employer and said when these jobs are done so am i.

drove for my family member for about 6 months but my pay checks were constantly late he was under funded fuel cards would get declined ect so i quit and went to work for another company pulling tank in the oil feild. the whole time i was doing that i was tracking costs evaluating owning a truck and saving my money paid off the house i was living in at the time payed off my cars and all other debt. bought a old truck out of a farm feild got it road ready bought a old trailer both for cash then put them to work.

 

To get startup capital, you save until you think you have enough. Then keep saving til you've doubled that number. As for truck financing, start at your local credit union.

 

Sounds like a newly single man that needs to cut the fat out of his life and live more frugal. Unload the truck, eliminate the credit card debt, and possibly get rid of the mortgage too. Work the Dave Ramsey debt snowball. I was saving $500 a week minimum as a company driver in my early 20's, single, no life, and no major bills. It can be done but it is a sacrifice. I did it for years and went all cash in when I started up years ago. Still here too...