Still time to be an O/O?

I'd say of you have all your ducks in a row and are ready for that step, go do it. Just shop very wisely for that truck or you'll be on here in a month or two talking like Shotgun94. Dont get me wrong. Im not saying Shotgun94 did anything wrong. Just try to avoid his situation. Buy a truck with good tires. Maybe with recent service. Etc. Absolutely dont worry about electric trucks taking over. They arent going to in the next 4 years and probably a lot longer than that if ever.

 

Well you want my opinion, stick to doing what you are doing and plan on leaving the industry at the end of five years.

Why?

Because with such a pessimistic attitude and buying into all the doom and gloom bull that is out there to shape opinions, you won't make it.

 

The only loads the Teslas will take away in the near future are beer runs in Colorado. And who really likes going out there anyways??

 

Feel the fear, and do it anyway.

 

At some point, there could be an abrupt jump from combustion to electromagnetic engines, just like there was a jump from coal engines to oil. But I don't really see it as a problem in terms of OPs infantile phobia. LOL. When I was a kid growing up I was worried about a nuclear war, I was arguing with my parents that going to school was pointless, as we all were going to perish anyway.

 

Electric trucks are the least of your problems. If you can avoid all the normal pitfalls then you will navigate electric trucks if it ever happens. Get started now while the barrier of entry is lower.

 

i read somewhere that 80% of all national freight moved by truck is by companies with fewer than 5 trucks, mostly being single owner operators. mega carriers are big but not that big. just from seeing on the roads the ratio of company driver to OO, for every company truck that crawls past me at 65, there are 10 rusty hoods or white volvos that fly by at 75. it's just like the stock market, there's seasonal ups and downs but there's never a bad time to start i wouldn't think. there's a bad WAY to start, but that's just dependent on your own estimation of preparation necessity. no right way, just lots of wrong ways.

 

We are nowhere close to having the infrastructure to run trucks off electric. If we ran just trucks off electricity we would need at least 50% more electricity produced, the only way we get that at this point is build more power plants, and last I heard that was going to kill us all. There wasn't near the drastic jump to oil from coal that you're imagining, there was no or very, very few, cars or trucks running off coal, only trains and boats, and they were still around well into the 1900s.

 

electric trucks will start with LTL and local jobs first, in the next 5 or so years, those drivers will be comfy as can be in those automated spaceships, checking facebook while it steers itself across town in traffic. OTR will stay diesel for a long while i bet, there's way too much business that's spread out away from and in between metroplexes to reach with batteries. tesla has had legit battery cars on the road for how many years now, and they still haven't had any effect on the existing "grid" yet, just their charging stations. OTR electric trucks would need something like an HOV lane with a trolley power system type deal, and that would start between cities first as a test.

 

It’s owner op season every day