"I am interested in starting a trucking business."

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What do you mean learn stuff? Work for someone else?! I drove a box truck once I got this. Anyway you guys could help me out learning big money lanes though?

 

People have the right to fail. So let them fail.

“It's often said that more than half of new businesses fail during the first year. According to the Small Business Association (SBA), this isn't necessarily true. The SBA states that only 30% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 50% during the first five years and 66% during the first 10.”

I think it’s better to be a driver first then think outside of the box. I always use 1 800 got junk as an example because it’s truly a good example.

The owner of got junk saw a lack of service in society. Garbage companies provided a service when it comes to waste but they could not take oversized junk such as pianos and big dressers. So the guy bought a truck, went around taking people’s oversized junk and charged them for it. Fast forward today, the company has like what? 10,000 trucks?

I always tell newbies. Think outside of the box. We don’t need another Swift or another super trucker. The day someone makes the technology so that semi trucks can FLY will be the day that person will be the first trillionaire.

 

Hi im calling about your cape cod to houston for $2600. Oh its tarped, 9 stops, requires i download your tracking software and have a twic card?

 

@TripleSix while i agree with you i do think there is also the exception to the rule. I bought my first truck before i was even 18. Hauled my first load just a few days after my 18th birthday. I'm still doing it 24 years later, and while it was definately not easy those first few years, owning trucks has provided a #### good life for me and my family.

I read something you said once that applies here. There are those that do, and those that try. If someone pulls up in a white van and grabs your daughter, do you try to stop them or do you stop them.

 

Another day another grest triple six post. I think trip six should write the official trucking bible

 

You could drive for a company for 30 years and not make it 1 year running your own truck. Experience is a minor factor in operating your own company.

 

I almost finished an associates degree in "entrepreneurship" decades ago but dropped out in disgust when i realized none of the "professors" except one had any actual business experience and were only teaching how to be another cog in a corporate wheel. I had a business and school was holding me back from it so i quit.

Anyhow.. The one professor with gems of real wisdom was an original founder of jiffy lube and the only thing that stuck with me all this time was a quip he made one day. I paid like $15 grand for this nugget and commuted a few years downtown to get it so pay attention now... Ya ready?


"Youll know how it feels to be an entreprenuer when friday rolls around and youre handing out payroll with cash advances from your visa card."