POSSIBLE RECESSION and starting as and Owner Operator?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by JR28262, Dec 27, 2018.

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  1. Midwest Trucker

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    BOOM! Most sensible post yet!
     
    Midwest Trucker, Dec 27, 2018
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    My Grandparents were the same way. They weren't millionaires, but they were comfortable. Granddad used to tell me that they were dirt poor before the depression, and dirt poor after. They didn't even know the depression happened or cared.
     
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    What’s good for GM is good for America! Lol
     
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    He actually loans a lot of money to different people, helping them get into farming a little bit, that's actually how he got the one half section of land I know about and probably a few other chunks here and there.
     
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    People will still buy dog food and bottled water.
     
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    Don't forget tampons & cigs
     
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    Think wealthy all you want. Lol Most Americans act like they’re wealthy living on credit.Listen to any Truckdriver brag about his revenue. Like it’s big money!! Lol Always Chasing a dollar and never really getting it.
     
    Rideandrepair, Dec 28, 2018
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    Money & assets are only one measurement of wealth.

    For @Dave_in_AZ, wealth would be measured by just having a sink in his truck! ;-)
     
    Scooter Jones, Dec 28, 2018
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    Man, even the poorest American living on welfare is probably richer than 95% of the world's population.
     
    Scooter Jones, Dec 28, 2018
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    So much is perspective. I know everyone that is in this game just to make money, ends up sick or miserable or both.

    I mean things happen. The truck is gonna need stuff.
    The customers are gonna have their moments.
    DOT gonna have their say.

    List is endless really, but it is the list. And the list isn't gonna change.

    I think you either learn to work with it, or you have to say this isn't for me.
     
    Dave_in_AZ, Dec 28, 2018
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