My Start at O/O

Read your spread sheet. What about liabilty and cargo ins?

160,000 miles a year, get real, maybe 120,000 at best for first year, actuall be lucky to get 100,000.

 

I hope I'm not being too much of an ###h*** but I believe you DO have your head in the clouds. I would bet my left xmas tree ornament that you will not do that your first year, as an inexperienced driver, in freight lanes you have no experience in, with a brand new truck (with toys) payment, with your wife and BABY living in the truck.

Listen. Please, I'm not trying to be a smart aleck or rip you apart or anything:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not attempt to raise a baby for four years in the back of a truck. Please. Please.


PLEASE.

 

BTW, just looked at some of your projected costs.... I'd seriously like to know how you came up with them.

I just think you are way WAY underestimating what it will cost you, not to mention what you will earn. And yea, 160k miles a year is not going to be done. Period. Nada. Not happenin'

 

I agree. What are you going to do? Keep the baby strapped into a car seat 14hrs a day every day? I know, you got this whole big custom sleeper the baby can totter around in right? Till that 4 wheeler cuts you off and you're forced to get on the brakes hard and you slam that baby into the dash.... It's just not a good idea.

 

Even in the best of times the SBA is difficult. Lenders want you to have 2 years experience, preferably. Need to find my Rolodex, I had a really good commercial broker in NJ to deal with. A call to him could save you tons of work and time.

 

Not to mention the filth, garbage, lazy fat sloppy filthy truckers taking a pee on your drives, leaving something else at the back of your trailer, lot lizards, cops, beggars, transients, disgusting truckstop food (unless you pull that huge cab into a Walmart every now and again), ......

I could go on and on and on.

That kid needs to be playing with neighborhood kids, going to preschool, and watching Barney (even though Barney is a fruitcake), not running the roads breathing in diesel fumes.

 

Right, I figured you'd be hitting WalMarts whenever you could, most drivers do that. But again....... raising a NEWborn in the back of a truck... Lets pause to think about that for a minute....
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Ok, have you thought about that? Do you understand now exactly how insane that sounds? Not to mention, when kids are about 1.5 to 2, they WILL want to play with other kids. As a matter of fact, I'd say they NEED other kids around. How are you going to keep that kid under control when you are on hour 10 of your drive? Ever hear of "distraction"? Do you also appreciate how dangerous having a newborn in a truck is? You WILL need to stop for things. Your wife will need things, the baby will need things... Where and when is the baby going to get shots? Dr Checkups? Etc?

You are joking, aren't you? I mean seriously, you are not REALLY considering taking a baby on the road with you, are you? It is a TRUCK, NOT an RV. If so, I'm pretty sure that inside of two weeks your wife will see the light and demand that you get her and the NEWBORD the 773H back home.







Raising a baby in a truck. I've seen it all now.

 

Uhhhh..... NO. Two reasons.... Newbies, myself included, are NOT going to be driving 11 hours per day, 7 or 8 days straight. Not going to happen. You have to fuel, you have to pee, you have to eat, you have to pretrip, post trip, get blown tires replaced, put on new belts, get oil changes, lube, change filters, wait forever to pickup a load, fix busted lights, repair that leaking gladhand, get new brakes, adjust those new brakes, slide tandems, fill tires with air, scrape windshields, slow down because of the snow and ice, go insane trying to get through Atlanta traffic, rip your hair out waiting in Dallas traffic, plan your own suicide sitting in Los Angeles traffic, creep up the grapevine at 35 mph grossing about 79000 lbs, come back down the other side at 35mph, wait forever to deliver a load, and wait until something breaks down on the truck, which it WILL.....

Another reason is very simple: THOSE MILES ARE NOT AVAILABLE.... FOR ANYONE. Not YOU, not veteran O/O's, NOBODY, especially if you are driving solo. If you think you are going to find 160k miles on loadboards, you are sadly mistaken.

BTW, do the math..... You have 11 hours of driving that CAN be done in a workday. you have 70 hours of log time per week to be legal. 11x7=77. Congratulations, you just got cited and put out of service for going over your 70. 11x6 days = 66 hours driving. That leaves you 4 hours total on line 4. Possible? Not a chance.