Who becomes an owner operator?

Next year people will be saying that they got into trucking, because of Tik Tok
TikTok

 

Just another media platform. I hope whoever sees those short videos does a little research before they go into trucking. I did and still ended up getting the shaft but it could have been a hell of a lot worse if I went to like Western Express or CREngland.

 

I'll take Gold Digger for 500.... Alex....
That wedding band is just the prelude to a over priced Divorce Attorney...
I've always said a Marriage license should have a expiration date on it just like a driver's license

 

Nobody on earth deserves to be treated as cruelly, as having to be married to Peggy.

 

Peggy rocks sucker for punishment I guess lol

 

I got mine in December of last year, than had a nasty fall in my garage, ended up in the hospital for 2.5 months and from the original diagnosis my wife didnt know if I was even gonna live or very likely ever drive again, so she had my truck towed from a parking spot I rent to my cousins house down the street from us, while getting towed the tow truck driver lost control going down my cousins hill and smacked my sleeper into a tree and totaled it. SO when I got out of the hospital and went into therapy and completed that and all other requirements to get my driving privilege's back I now have a Peterbilt that I day cabbed and have stuck with the local end dump thing. SO in short, I was one of em this year, but after a fall 2.5 months in the hospital 6 more months of rehab and required testing I pulled the sleeper and stuck with end dump for now. Now that season has slowed down I am looking back into reactivating everything and getting p plates on the truck to get back out there and call my own shots for the first time in my life.

 

Helluva streak of crap for you there, dont recommend ever buying a lotto ticket.

What many on the outside of successes may credit to hard work or good luck, many of us know full well a LACK of bad luck with the hard work were part and partial of not going under immediately

 

I think a few things are a bigger contributor to success than people like to give credit.
1. Just dumb luck (the good kind)
2. Right place at the right time
3. Networking (people you know and more importantly, the people who know you)

I've made some good money off the first 2. Guys needed some loads moved asap and I just happened to be there.
I attribute the 3rd to word of mouth. A guy can't do something, but toss my name in the mix. Next thing you know, I'm making money.