Questions on GVWR and a good truck to get as a first truck

You sound like a spoiled child. It's a bad idea, people told you it's a bad idea, now you're crying. If you want to make it work, go ahead. It's not going to be profitable though. You want to throw tens of thousands of dollars to go on a really lousy ride twice a month (test driving that astro doesn't really let you know what it's like to sit there on a 500 mile trip). You're better off paying an instructor to give you a driving lesson every week or something if you want to be behind the wheel, lol. You should get yourself some instruction anyway. You're way too confident for someone that hasn't had any training, and wants to just hit the road after scraping by the DMV skills test.

Don't expect anyone to tell you this is a good idea, lol.

 

Dude, my questioning you comes from years of hearing great ideas that have failed. Many of us don't want people to fail, it is that simple.

I am not picking on you because of your computer job, but because this is a profession, we need to treat it as a profession and if that means discouraging people from becoming hobbyist in it or putting trucks that don't need to be on the road, so be it. I think when you come here and want to have answers that jive with your idea, you need to be open to not just the discouragement but the assumption that you are one who knows little of the profession.

 

Look I'm not being harsh, but you're talking fantasy land here man.

Spending $5k on a 40 year old truck? It's just not going to fly. Mass-DOT will rip that antique to shreds in an inspection.
And you could run over $5000 in fines alone if some of those DIY repairs are not up to code.

I'll give you an IT example by comparison.

I programed BASIC into a Commodore PET in grade school in 1982. Do you think my ISP startup can take over the service traffic for Yahoo?

It's just not in the realm of,,, dude it's just not reality!

Your "friend" with "the few local loads" is he gonna cover your Authority papers?

You wanna be serious, find a local small shipper with a few loads, be a middle man between him and your friend with the occasional load.
Get a finders fee for connecting the two and offer to run teams with a guy from the outfit.

Or you can blow smoke up my ,,, and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. Best of luck.

 

Guys...you can't tell me you don't recognize a troll when you see one...or just someone with a little cash who thinks all you have to have is a truck and the desire to operate a business.....all I can say is Wow ....just Wow.....

 

Sure. He's one or the other, no doubt. But which one is he...... mr smartguy? (just jokin)

Actually, these type of trolls/or clueless pipedream O/O's are increasing with clockwork frequency around here. It would be best if we'd all ignore such posts.