What is an owner operator?

That is now in question… Heard the news the last 2 years? Improper classification of worker. The IRS does not tell guys if they are a O/O or company driver. You can be improperly working as 1099 and yes it is illegal. Changes already moving along on the west coast and moving eastward. Like it or not. I’m not in favor of one side or the other. Doesn’t bother me. I can always hire on a O/O on W2 and pay for equipment instead of 1099. But 1099 is easier

 

Very true but I pay every bill associated with that truck....and I own it LOCK STOCK AND BARRELL ...and I drive it .
Any other questions?

 

Yes, it does, the states too. You can't drive a company truck and be paid with 1099. That's illegal. I don't know O/O being paid W2. That should be also illegal.

 

Yes, how come we can’t make trucking great again?!?
Spent last 1/2 hour with elog people and wife on three way call fixing issues with bugs with the app. No bugs with paper logs! How I wish. The wife and I are ok with the electronics, but if my dad was still driving and he was in on the call and working thru the issues, he would be lost. Did any one ever consider older fellers having to deal with all this nonsense? Simple, economical, reliable. Leave trucking alone. Let it be.

 

What are you talking about ?

 

Hey we turned 6 pages on how to weigh each axle. Can't remember how many pages on that why won't your van doors close when the wagon is leaning.

 

Dang.... never seen you expand like this... I must admit, I like!!!

 

Lol ..sometimes a post about an idiot that thinks they are God's gift to trucking brings out my ability to insult them while skirting the profanity filter , thank you for the compliment Jon Jon.

 

Lol…. I guess my truck technically belongs to my boss, and you’ve met her…..

 

There are, indeed, different gradations of an owner operator status.
Out of sheer vanity, if nothing else, it may matter where you are on the prestige level...the way Medieval knights were gradated about their status too.
First of all, you were half-arse of a knight if you did not own outright a horse (think truck) but instead you had it based on a debt taken from a Jew (think bank) - the only ones practicing usury at the time. Also, it mattered what sort of armor you had, and how many squires were carrying it for you....lol
But it was not uncommon that at a battlefield (think freightmarket or spot market especially), a well esteemed knight with a golden armor fell dead pierced by a peasant's fork (think whatever), which was used to shovel dung a few days earlier - so much left of the prestige.