just got my CDL A and bought my own truck what all do i do to become a owner operater

ATBS Accounting and SAVE ALL of your receipts except food stuff

 

Someone please update this on which Ins companies you went with, I was going to do exactly what the OP did (albeit I do have exp running dumps) but gave up because I was told by several people including Progressive lady that they no longer insure New venture Owners with "no exp"

I have been in the aggregate business since I was a Kid, I don't need to go pull a van with a Some mega for a year to know how to drive a truck. I've been running a Concrete mixer for years now and that is one job that will teach you how to handle a truck in all conditions.

 

Why not food receipts? Eating is a necessary expense of living on the road to earn the income.

 

I was 27 when I bought my first truck, and had had my commercial license since the day I turned 18, but several insurance companies turned me down because I was too young. They have got steadily worse since then.

 

As far as I know meals are deductable for an OO, but you are better off just deducting the daily limit.

 

I normally wouldn't recommend this but maybe it would be a way to get the truck up and running. Maybe see if he can run on a 1099 Craigslist company insurance until he gets enough time in to make insurance easier for him? I honestly don't even know if it can work that way but those guys seem to pull trucks out of their ##### to get trucks on the road. Yea the pay probably won't be the greatest but maybe it could get him out there in his truck learning until he can get a better deal.

 

Because your food stuff is covered in your daily perdiem allowance/ how many days you are on the road away from the house

 

If there is a will, there is about always a way. I’ll leave it at that.

 

96 model?

Can you work on it? Got sense enough to know it's getting sick before it starts ####tin out parts?

I'm not being mean or sarcastic cut me I bleed Peterbilt and CAT power, take that for what it is they are not for everyone

 

By the way, I see that you are in Texas, that is a BIG state. If you don't plan on leaving the state and only doing Intrastate trucking, You should be able to do that with just a Texas DOT # and State Tag/License Plate the expenses are less. I have ran Georgia Intrastate and also Florida Intrastate in a previous life at different times. Getting your Intrastate Authority is much quicker than Interstate Authority and less expensive if you are concerned about that. Then you can get that later when you want to expand. It all depends on what you want to do, what kind of freight you want to haul and where you want to go