How is my plan sounding so far?

As soon as you said mercer you won. You will do just fine.


Whoa. Hold on a second. Your profile info shows you as a student. Mercer won't sign you on with boo driving experience.

 

Have you checked with mercer to see if a year is enough? 3 is more common for oo companies

 

Mercer has a good reputation for O/O's, but I am told they will not baby sit you. Not sure of leasing requirements, but seem like most of their hands are older, experienced.
Has your wife ridden much with you ? Trucking quickly gets old to most women, and it can be rough trucking with an un-happy better half.
You need to live close to a good freight lane for Mercer, will help to slip by the house every so often.
52,000 a year is do-able, but don't count on it the first year or so.
Good luck, it can be done, but it takes work.

 

If you can't do 52 your first year at Mercer you got bigger problems. I did better than that and was home for nearly half the year.

 

Talk to Bill at Farm2Fleet & check the website. It's a good 0/0 company.

I'm not knocking any other 0/0 company, just showing another option to compare.

Schneider has used trucks in your price range. They have used truck sales in Atlanta & Chicago and probably other places.

 

What start up cash you going to have after your down payment? What about gear you'll spend $4,000 on that rack chains binders you name it, I think mercer is a good choice because of the lease to own on the trailers.

 

I have heard good things about Mercer.

I can only tell you that my experience with farm 2 fleet is not good. Bill asked me to email him. I explained my situation to him in the email and when he saw that he couldn't make money off of me, he wouldn't even answer me. Not a form letter, no information for another time, no "I don't think I can do anything for you at this time", nothing. xxxxxxxxxx

It is one of the most rude, un-businesslike things that I have ever experienced. I thought maybe he was busy, but what I found is that he is busy writing post after post after post after post, trolling the site for recruitment, non stop, everyday. To me, that just looks like MASSIVE greed and ignorance.

I do not deal with people like that, and I hope that the good people that are out there will do the same. It says a lot about his character, or lack thereof.

I like that your wife is good with money. In this business, you have to always stay ahead of your money. If you can always do that and keep your overhead low, you will do well.

 

52k is forklift driver money. WTF are you talking about?