wanting to be an owner op

Sorry kid.... No insurance company will insure you until you are at least 21.

 

Check the OOIDA.com website and you will find out what these other posters are telling you is true.
That's an owner-operator website.

I think you should buy the truck and have fun with it. Park it at your house and turn it into a "Man Cave" you and your buddies can hang out in:

Man caves have multiple purposes: they are a place to be alone, to be away from women and from female sensibilities, to indulge in hobbies, and to hang out with male friends. It is, loosely, a male-only space to retreat to watch sports matches,[SUP][11][/SUP] or play video games.[SUP][7][/SUP][SUP][12][/SUP] According to psychiatrist and author Scott Haltzman, it is important for a man to have a place to call his own, referring to a male area to which to retreat. Some psychologists claim that a man cave can provide refuge from stressful surroundings and be beneficial to marriage.[SUP][2][/SUP] Rules are relaxed; it is a place where other people's sensibilities about standards of cleanliness are not necessarily observed; as one man said, "You spill a beer there or leave a hamburger overnight, who cares?"[SUP][3][/SUP]
In a sense, for married men, it is a way to recreate some of the space and freedom of their bachelor days since it was like a "pad" similar in feeling to a frat house game room or a college dorm room where people could come and go "as if they owned the place."[SUP][3][/SUP] It is where a man doesn't have to be on his best behavior, where no women are around, and where "no one is going to make you watch your p's and q's" and "no one is going to ask you to explain yourself".

 

at 18, i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life. my son is 23 and still trying to figure out his life.

what makes the kids these days think they want to own a truck? most of them are probably still a senior in high school.

 

You're right. I have 7 children and told them to get out of podunk zip code and travel, work in other states, see the world; otherwise you develop myopic vision and don't learn tolerance of other cultures even within the USA. I didn't want them to be like so many I've met, even on this forum, like the know-it-all's that belittle anyone that doesn't agree with you 100%. They did it too; military, trucker, narcotics officer, nurse, CPA, casino worker making $55K with full benefits package. I'm making sure my 3rd grader is an independent thinker also and will view political correctness as hogwash since that's just a veil for ignorant people to push their agenda on everyone elso.

 

I thought I wanted to own one when I was 6 years old. When I was in my early 20's as a company driver I thought it would be fun but really what sort of fool would actually do it? It's crazy. And so just for the hell of it I went and did it in my early 30's. Looking back I wished I had done it in my 20's. I think it is cool someone so young wants to do it. When people piss in my cheerios it really only motivated me to go to greater heights and show them this is how you git r done. So maybe this kid has some hurdles now but everyone has those. What separates the men from the boys is if you can rise to it.

 

This, which I highlighted, is a true statement. Too many out here got into it in desperation or on a whim and are trapped and their attitudes show it and those of us that love what we do have to deal with those attitudes. I would much rather see more youngsters that WANT to be drivers out here than more of the others that got themselves trapped because they were desperate for income and had no idea what they were getting into.

I say, if you can pick the truck up for cheap, use the time you have available, where you don't have family and household bills and responsibilities, work on it yourself, get it up and running, while, in the meantime, learn the ropes of the business (not just the driving). You'll be miles ahead of a whole host of others out here trying to be O/Os when they're nothing more than company drivers shouldering the costs of operation and paying a company to work for them.

Go for it, Kid.