JJ's Place

i don't know about the o/o side of things as for finding your own loads. since you already have a truck.

who pays fuel for deadhead??? besides central and swift and england.

they furnish the base plates but i pay. insurance, permits, and plates.

just like a true o/o running off there own authority. hauling there own freight.

some loads suck. no getting around it. either i haul something and make something. or i sit making nothing. personally i prefer to make.
SOMETHING HAS TO BE HAULED SOMEWHERE. and we don't make money if the wheels ain't a spinning.

i haul 5 loads a week. and i'm home on the weekends. although that might be different now if i run into the same crap i ran into yesterday.

we do have the option of rejecting a load.

and the lease is month to month with no penalty for termination. no reason for me NOT to sign the lease now. i don't see how i could do any different going elsewhere.

other then having access to loadboard. but as long as i'm moving. i'm not picky.

course, we'll see how the ball actually rolls.

i don't know what the actual o/o contract entails.

 

i would imagine o/o's would get the same 78%. that includes the trailer rental. which is already equipped. but i'll ask as for getting your truck on the road. and what not.

 

I watched them film part of that movie when I was a teenager. The little rickety bridge where they blew up the truck was just a few miles from our house.

 

at 3:48, i was having happy dreams.

 

there's a movie that george straight starred in. called pure country.

the bar that's in that movie. is 30 miles south of dallas ft.worth. next time i'm in the neighborhood. i'm gonna stop in for a coke. i wouldn't mind checking that place out.

i'll be in tucson tuesday. i'm actually getting loaded bright in early for the journey. i'd like to check out that airplane junkyard that's in a couple of movies. one of them was nicolas cage. with the convicts on the plane.

but i'm hoping to get the ecm ungoverned before i head out. so that might waste some time.

 

I think what JJ was trying to say was ....being leased to a company that has dispatch you really have no control of the Dead head miles...Where with landstar if we have a big dead head it will be like MY BAD sorry I put us in an area where the freight was cheap and we have to dead head out to a better freight lane!