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Very nice @redoctober83 , glad things are working out for you.
This is further proof which has been said over and over again doing your homework is the MOST important thing.
With the right amount of studies someone can make it here at Schneider and as an O/O with their own authority or elsewhere.. say at Landstar or whatever. With enough homework also you'll these how truly bad these cheap mileage carriers are.

As far as all the other discussion about drivers failing etc, I agree with @TennMan which is you can't regulate stupid! lol
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Thank you @freightwipper !

I'll add another mind blowing statement here for the day. I am still in a lease purchase program from big bad evil Prime. I have 1.5 years left on the lease for the tractor and I have been successful as you have all seen. Then once that lease is up I'll roll it in to a purchase and have the remaining balance paid off in a year. So it will have taken me 4 years to pay for this tractor in full.

So all those who say the system is rigged against the driver, I am living proof that you can be successful if you have a plan.

As Zig says, "Failure to plan is a plan to fail!"

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Thank you @scottlav46!

My time off schedule has been set for months and I was willing to make adjustments to it if need be, but most of my time off does fit around when these customers have there slow down anyways and they have others with higher seniority than me that must be taken care of first. All goes back to homework and understanding how cycles of this market. You don't take significant time off during the 100 days of summer where freight picks back up and you don't take time off during the fall.

I might be my own boss by my customers' production schedules control when I take time off because without customers you can't make money, lol I mean the ritural sacrifices of virgins and kids does help as well

As things are looking right now, I think I'll be buying a second trailer and bringing on another owner operator to lease onto me who wants to run this lane as well.

Here I'll blow all your minds even more because I gotten so much shtzz from other drivers and companies offering me there services. I don't use a factoring company at all. Don't plan on ever using one. If I don't have the money in the bank to support my bills for the 30 days it takes to get paid, I don't deserve to be in this business!

I can't tell you the number of factoring companies that called me to offer me there sevices and when I said I am well capitalized they got pizzy with me and told me I had to use a factoring company. i told them I don't have to do anything. I have had drivers tell me I am stupid for not using a factoring company and how I'll be out of business because of it. They think because they use a factoring company they are garunteed to get paid. Only thing garuenteed in life is death and taxes!
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Right on man makes a ton of sense

The scary thing is the number of fresh authority guys that DO sign on for those services that they get bombarded with after you get your packet. I too couldn't believe the sheer amount of nonsense that came our way when we established ours.

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i know prime will allow you to take a truck to another carrier, but they allowed you to get your own authority?

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T_TRUCKER. said: ↑

i know prime will allow you to take a truck to another carrier, but they allowed you to get your own authority?
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Yep, they did.

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Thank you @scottlav46!

My time off schedule has been set for months and I was willing to make adjustments to it if need be, but most of my time off does fit around when these customers have there slow down anyways and they have others with higher seniority than me that must be taken care of first. All goes back to homework and understanding how cycles of this market. You don't take significant time off during the 100 days of summer where freight picks back up and you don't take time off during the fall.

I might be my own boss by my customers' production schedules control when I take time off because without customers you can't make money, lol I mean the ritural sacrifices of virgins and kids does help as well

As things are looking right now, I think I'll be buying a second trailer and bringing on another owner operator to lease onto me who wants to run this lane as well.

Here I'll blow all your minds even more because I gotten so much shtzz from other drivers and companies offering me there services. I don't use a factoring company at all. Don't plan on ever using one. If I don't have the money in the bank to support my bills for the 30 days it takes to get paid, I don't deserve to be in this business!

I can't tell you the number of factoring companies that called me to offer me there sevices and when I said I am well capitalized they got pizzy with me and told me I had to use a factoring company. i told them I don't have to do anything. I have had drivers tell me I am stupid for not using a factoring company and how I'll be out of business because of it. They think because they use a factoring company they are garunteed to get paid. Only thing garuenteed in life is death and taxes!
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Has the tool man called yet?

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Has the tool man called yet?
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LOL, actually he called me just this Friday. That's scary that you know that!

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Actually there is a Uber like app for owner operators, it's called Convoy. I haven't done much research into it yet, have the carrier agreement open on my computer to remind me to complete it and send it back. The nicest part I see so far is the pay you within 24 hours if delivery if the paperwork is turned in correctly.

This statement just screams of an under educated, 25 to 30 something male still living in mommies basement with nothing better to do then act like he's entitled to be a millionaire because he can pass the mirror test.

As @TennMan, @freightwipper, @drvrtech77, and many other very successful business owners have said and even pointedly tried to tell you, this is first and foremost a business! Being an independent contractor or an owner operator does not mean you're an over glorified company driver that gets to drive faster and go home when you want and expect bigger checks. Go read up on entrepreneurs and how long they usually take to see a profit on any new business they start. It's usually between years 3 and 5 if the business makes that long. Why do most businesses fail? It's because of 3 big things; not enough capitalization at the start up (that means not enough money saved up to make it through the first 3 to 5 years), lack of proper market research (you have no clue who or what your competitors are or even who your customers are), and lack of a proper business plan (failure to plan is a plan to fail). Go spend some time looking around the SBA website and see what it takes to run a business.

We don't need more regulations, government controls, and set minimums for freight. What we need are reading lessons for the entitled kids who want to just show up and breath and expect $15/hr for that instead of actually earning the money. Proper training on how to be a professional truck driver that looks similar to what it takes to get a pilots license (when was the last time you got on an airplane and saw the pilot and crew wearing pajams and flip flops? Don't know about you, but I would be turning right around and getting off that plane of they were!) Last but not least, we need to stop taking cheap freight!

The moment you start getting into a price war on anything with a competitor, it turns in to a game of who can go out of business first. You cheapen your company when all you are focused on is price. Go read a sales book from one of the best sales coaches out there like Zig Zigglar or Brian Tracey (oops, forgot the entitled generation doesn't know how to read more then 144 characters at a time), you'll learn that everything in life is a sales job, even being a janitor you have to sell yourself to your employer each day that you're worth being there. If you did a half ### job do you think you'll be working long? Why is it someone can command $25/hr to clean a toilet and have a waiting list of customers while the guy offering the same service for $10/hr can barely get a customer?

When I was in college 14 years ago I was able to get double the going rates for house cleaning and janitorial work in a town with 3 colleges in the middle of no where eastern Washington. Here I was a 19 year old kid beating out the other janitorial companies in the town. Why was that? It's because I was selling myself and not just cleaning services. I would show up looking professional wearing nice clothes that didn't hang down to my knees or have holes in them. I would go above and beyond there expectations like changing out the toilet paper roll and folding the end into a triangle or cleaning the dishes in the sink even though it wasn't part of my job. I would always leave a nice tent folded card with my company logo that showed what time I arrived and left, what was done in each room and when the next time was I would be back. I sold myself as someone who cared about there needs and made them feel like they were the most important person in the world and they gladly paid for the quality of service the received.

I go my own authority and trailer 34 days ago. I had made contacts with customers prior to doing this to check on lanes, see what kind of trailer they needed and what there insurance requirements were all before I pulled to trigger to get my numbers. Because of that I've been able to put together a loop that is paying me $7,000 a week on 3500 miles and the load each direction is less then 15k lbs. My 2 customers/brokers already have more loads for me when I decide to get more trucks. This was only possible because I communicated with them above and beyond what they required, was prompt with getting them paperwork (usually had pod turned in before I left the receiver), and showed interest in a relationship with them instead of a one time wham bam thank you way most carriers treat brokers and customers. Some of you will say I was just lucky and it's the exception to the rule, but I'm not lucky. It took hard work and a couple months of communication with these brokers before I got here and that was all done before I got my authority. Oh yeah, that's getting me home every weekend as well.

One of my favorite quotes from Zig Zigglar sums this all up the best, "If you help enough people get what they want in life, you'll get what you want". Take some time and think about how that applies to what we do here. I know a good number of you won't even bother to think on this but instead ignore what it takes to be successful and scream it's all unfair and it should just be given to you. If you won't help yourself improve your life no one can.
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Hard work and ambition. What a noble idea! At least the past few days of reading have taught you how to be a victim if you ever need to fall back on that. Something tells me you won't. Congrats and good luck. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

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"This statement just screams of an under educated"

I have a master's in mathematics. I used to teach calculus and statistics.
What is your education?

"Because of that I've been able to put together a loop that is paying me $7,000 a week on 3500 miles and the load each direction is less then 15k lbs."

"Oh yeah, that's getting me home every weekend as well."

"I am still in a lease purchase program from big bad evil Prime. I have 1.5 years left on the lease for the tractor and I have been successful as you have all seen."

That is called BS, my friend, you know that, right?

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I know one.
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They were many, now it's one. Which one?

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That government that you want to lean on shares much of the blame for these failures.

Thanks to regulation, we are paying an insane amount for a truck these days.

Thanks to regulation, the emissions being forced into these trucks have become a major player in forcing people into bankruptcy. When you go buy a new truck today, the odds are stacked against you due to the high risk of that truck having multiple and costly breakdowns.

Thanks to regulations, our hours of service not only got screwed up from a system that worked great for decades, it's now got even more screwed up with electronic monitoring. This only costs the driver more money.

Thanks to regulations, unless enough truck drivers will get vocal and fight, our productivity is about to suffer even more due to trucks being slowed down.

The list of how government continues to screw up this and every other small business is enormous.

Considered pulling a reefer? That side of the industry is now transitioning into a big mess thanks to a heaping pile of new government regulation. Look for a few more small businesses to fail thanks to that.

People need to wake up and see reality, or the generations to follow are really going to suffer at the hands of this government you want us to be 100% dependent on.
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"Thanks to regulations, our hours of service not only got screwed up from a system that worked great for decades, it's now got even more screwed up with electronic monitoring"

So, you think you should be able to drive as many hours as you want without a break?

It is true a lot of regulations are not good. Because lobbying( corruption) and the fact the people
making the regulations don't have any driving experience. Which doesn't mean I don't need GOOD
regulations.

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