Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

So you are grossing 40k every month? Over $450k per year?

 

I haul plenty of weight.....every load. But not @$1.30 a mile......and 3k miles a week is 150k miles of wear and tare plus fuel



No TKS

 

Failures??? Seriously??? I’m not the one who needs to lean to mega companies to survive . I’m not the one who complains about credit, money and bla bla bla ... I’m here trying to help you understand that you can do better than that . You CAN !!!!

 

His point was what megas do, and those that choose to lease to them/lp from them have nothing to do with your(or my) success. And i agree with him.

It was probably brought on by the literally tens of thousands of fools claiming megas drive rates down.

 

Of course not. I mostly stay close to the house running steel loads that gross the truck $13-1700 a day on less than 100 gallons. Run 4-4.5 days a week, and make a pretty decent stack for my time and trouble. Thing is, when you get the job done safely, on time and professionally, work finds you. So when somebody offers me next to 10 grand for less than a weeks work, I'll usually take it. Unless it interferes with family or fishing...nothing gets in the way of that.

 

Oh ok, cause your post sounded a bit misleading, you making an example of that pay made it look like it's something you make on a regular basis

 

3 or 4 days a week is a regular basis. I regularly make a run that pays me 1600ish after my carrier takes 25% and it goes 130ish miles. It isnt every day, or even every week, but at 15 loads over the course of the year its regular, something i can bank on ever 3 weeks or so. Obviously i need more than this regular run but it doesn't make it any less of a regular run just because it's not every day. Another regular run i do pays 700 and goes approximately 300 yards. Again not every day, but something i can bank on twice a month. Get enough of those regular runs that aren't every day or even every wrk and all of a sudden you got yourself a solid customer base to build around.

 

It's not every week, but it's pretty much once a month and happening more and more. I get it there on time, everytime and people remember that.

 

Here's some food for thought Count the Cost

 

Thank you, almost everyone, for being calm, civil, and not throwing too many punches.

There is a good deal of interesting information here, but not a great deal that I have not already considered. The nuggets of new ideas are not enough to make me change my plans.

Reality might step in and force me to change plans, but barring some sort of dramatic event, I will be moving forward deliberately, on the path I have already mentioned.

Is it the fastest way to get me into the Billy Big Rig Hall of Fame? No.

I will now quote you a fortune cookie I once got:

"The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."