If everyone else jumped off a cliff...

Now Hedon... you're beginning to see some of the folks you want to hang your hat with!

 

If everyone else jumped off a cliff... Well, its not quite that dismal! Congrats on the truck, and good luck. There is one thing for certain, if you never try, you'll never succeed.

Just because they didn't ask you or I, doesn't mean they don't have a plan. And yes, I AM an ole farm boy that pulls hopper bottoms around the sticks, its worked out well for me!

 

Hedon, congrats from a fellow cliff jumper.

 

Let me add my congratulations!! I jumped almost 5 months ago and am loving the fall

 

Congrats on the truck.

If we all had the attitude of some of the failures on here, we would probably all fail.

Lean into it!

 

Good looking truck,Hedon,the blue ''details'' 'er nicely. I have a cousin that started in the summer of '08 and he runs under his own authority and he is doing just fine,it CAN be done.Don't let any body else tell you different.Take care of your truck,and she'll take care of you.The ''inframes'' won't get ya, it's the attention to the little things that will. A good ''walk around'' and consistant, regular preventive maintenance will make you more money than you know,and any of us can crawl under a rig with a grease gun,you can't beleive how many times i have seen little things that would have turned into big things if i had not got 'em early after seeing 'em while simply greasing the rig and being attentive to everything else while under there,you don't have to be a mechanic,a good little common sence will go a long way.

Good Luck to you,and enjoy it! Oh,by the way,i'm just an 'ol dumb farmboy that yanks a hopper around in the sticks too,and my 'ol truck is a '90 model and she still has the original motor in 'er.

One other thing you might want to remember,so as not to get discouraged,your not competing for ALL of Wal-Mart's buisiness,so to speak,your looking for 1 load at a time,and if my memory serves me right,Wal-Mart started with 1 hand-shake and a friendly welcome at 1 store and grew from there.A good smile and friendly hand-shake don't cost you very much,your customer will remember you,one way or the other.

 

Good words Dairyman!

 

AMEN!!!!!!

I started this journey into the "wide world of wanderlust" back in Oct 09. I'm going to follow through on an obligation I made to the school district I drive a school bus for before I actually "launch", i.e., driving school, training, etc. I spent some time reading posts on this forum before I started asking drivers here to join my "friends" list. I read and read and read. Then I asked some of the folks who seemed to have a "right spirit" to be on my "list of friends". What I've found here lately though is that my list would get really long if I kept adding to it. Yep, there's a lot of "right spirit" here on the forum. This thread is proof. More than just a couple of my friends have weighed in here on this thread. I don't have any experience driving the big trucks, but 56 years of life on this planet has given me some great experience in how to pick my friends. Thanks!

 

Very well put!!!!!! Thats what im talking about thank you!!!!