Still time to be an O/O?

Don't worry about Tesla trucks. Or where diesel is going for that matter. Take a look around, how many charging stations do you see? Has Tesla even delivered 1 single electric truck yet? You realize electricity is not free. And usually when there is some potential threat to the status quo, the price of fuel seems to magically drop, making diesel the standard once again. Remember when fuel was $4, $5 ? And the push was for natural gas or natural gas/diesel hybrid trucks? It didn't go anywhere. The same thing will happen again. Think again if you think the government is anywhere near doing away with the need for everyone to purchase energy in liquid form and the tax money it generates. All the incentives and what not about going electric is just lip service. The idea of electric trucks may be viable if you ever see the government start collecting the equivalent of IFTA in a form of weight-mile taxes rather than average gallons burned per state.

 

Tesla is nearly broke by most accounts, he's complaining about having to work so hard, last I heard he was telling some sob story about having to work on his birthday. Electric trucks are just some novelty thing that sounds like a good idea if you don't think about any of the repercussions, like the price of electricity going through the roof, an ice storm knocking down some powerlines, a thunderstorm frying a couple transformers, I could go on put you get the point I'm sure.

 

Fire up those coal plants and make the sky black once again in an effort to produce enough electricity for that. And call it progress....lol

 

Myself, I wouldn't not go owner op due to the electric trucks. Because they aren't ready yet. It will be years before they are there and until then then i'll think about it.
I'm leased onto a carrier and If I had still been company driver I would have more money in my pocket now. Not trying to discourage you anyway. But I've had some very bad breakdowns on the used trucks I went to get. Maintenance is a key that can break you. But you may want to find a good quality lease purchase. But just know when you go into owner op it is harder to get out of. Have money saved up. I got my 2013 Cascadia about 2 months ago and suffered a $4600 breakdown. Then I got 8 new drives costing about $3400. Also had to update the High pressure fuel pump and doing basic maintance and tune up probably costing about $4100. When I first left the lot I paid $408 for a pm.
I still have more to do to get it right. But piece by piece it'll get there as long as the motor doesn't go out. But it is some real work. Good Luck

 

Nah to many trucks stay company driver. Big Electric trucks require a lot of infrastructure and power, just looking at how bad the roads are now the question is who's gonna flip the bill for charging stations across the US. A diesel Electric hybrid is more likely to work like a locamotive.

 

I listened to this book quite some time ago. The main thing I remember from it is that the electric motors were so close to being the primary engine for all vehicles, had it not being for the mischievous, ruthless oil interests. It was over 100 years ago. The cooperation between Edison and Ford was aborted by 1st World War and the Edison Labs were sabotaged with arson. The technology of electric motors and electric energy storage did not advance too much until Tesla days.

Even so…. If there are efficient electric trucks on the market, why can’t we just buy some for ourselves? The oil interests are even stronger nowadays, though.

 

And what will you say when it costs as much to heat and cool your house a year as it does to keep a truck on the road? Why would you want to run everything from trucks to your cell phone on the same "fuel," can you not see how that ends badly?

 

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4172159-tesla-semi-dead

 

I wouldn’t worry about electric trucks, they may be right around the corner but they are still a long ways out from being affordable and practical for trucking.. same way with the Otto crap, will be a long time before they are ever cost effective and practical.. just my opinion, now go take that tin foil hat off