Team Owner Operator Help Please

So me and a good friend of many years are looking to possibly leave our cozy company driver jobs and become team owner operators.

Question is how much money is there to be made??
Can't seem to find much info on this and any advice or knowledge is much appreciated. Back Story
I have been driving for 5 years and my friend 4.
Our ages are both 26 with kids/wives at home.
We are at a company right now that delivers to extremely tight areas/docks. Also we hand truck or pallet jack product so there really isn't a lack of skill. We are both at $23.5 an hour and will be at top rate $28 in a year+ overtime after 40 and average 55 hours per week. So in a year our salaries will be about 100k per year with per diem and bonuses. We are honestly clueless to the mechanic side of trucking.
One of our company friends recently left to become an owner operator and uses getloaded.com. Claims to make more money than he ever will with our company.
So main question is would becoming Team Owner Operators make more money and be a wise decision on our part?? Any input at all is appreciated, thanks.

 

Should have mentioned that we have lived together for long periods of time, sorry.
I guess I was naive about how much money can be made as an owner operator. I figured team owner operator would be insane profits??

Basically our company isn't union but seniority plays a huge roll in what days you work and where you go. We are a long ways off (8-10 years?) Till we can get a bid with weekends off. Weekends matter because all of our family/friends have weekends off. Also till we can get off runs that don't involve blindside backs in the middle of Philadelphia/NYC/DC/Baltimore/Pitt.

So we were looking to make more money and have a schedule that fits the above needs.

However just to recap it won't be more money and schedules will be even worse? Not that I don't believe those that already answered but this is honestly the exact opposite of what I expected to hear and it has thrown off our entire theory lol

Appreciate yall taking the time to reply as this plan now sounds like it would have been a horrible idea.

 

Gonna close this thread once I figure out how lol but thanks again for taking the time to reply. Specifically Gokiddogo thanks for breaking it down like that.

Safe travels and God Bless