Is it worth it, finanically speaking, to O/O...???

Ya, uhm...I have been kinda 'out of patience' for the past ten years, I do not think I can hold out for another five. In two years, I will know wheter trucking is going to give me a nest egg or not, regarless if I O/O or not.

Frankly, in five years from this point here in time, I was planning on leaving the trucking industry with a pile of cash saved up from earnings and perhaps emmigrating to New Zealand to start up a greenhouse.

 

Four and one-half months experience is pretty close to zero experience, but it is not absolute zero, but go ahead....

It would be glorious to get treated well by any company I am employed at. The bottom-feeders are not just 'so-called'--there are figuratively real bottom feeders--they prey off the 'bottom-of-the-deck'--or newbies. If the dues are like what Knight and other bottom-feeders have done to other drivers testifying here on TTR, then ya, the dues are too high.

I am contacting an Uncle who has in the past offered me a loan as a way of giving me a break. If I cannot land something decent soon, I just may purchase a car-hauling trailer (one car) and just tote cars around in with my van.

I know I will likely bank $0.60/mile after my expenses, maintenance accruals, and deadhead miles; likely $600-900/week starting out--more than I suspect I would bank at a bottom feeder.

No scales, no HOS, electronic logs, no $3k power plates, no IFTA reporting, I can take residential streets to get around traffic blocks, etc etc. Sleeping in the van is not as comfortable as a sleeper in a rig, but a benefit is that I won't be driving a 60' of 20-40 ton nowhere-to-park vehicle either.

So ya, you can 'sit-and-spin' your disgust that I contine to strive not to sign on with a bottom feeder.

 

Actually, I got a Progressive reprentative to spend thrity-minutes with me on the phone as I was getting quotes for my van-car trailer setup. I then said, 'By the way...' and asked about quotes for a $50k rig with the minimums. This was over one month ago, but I do not recall my lack of having one-year's worth of experience being an issue.