Willing to share Business Plan for starting trucking company?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by michaelHH, Jul 14, 2022.

  1. RunningAces

    RunningAces Road Train Member

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    That South Florida thing is going to sting when you go to get insurance. I'd suggest you find a tractor you think might fit your operation. Call for insurance quotes before spending money on anything else.
     
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  3. supergreatguy

    supergreatguy Road Train Member

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    one at a time!
     
  4. God prefers Diesels

    God prefers Diesels Road Train Member

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    Wait, what? That wasn't a book, it was a flyer!!
     
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  5. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Now you're just insulting my intelligence. I can shur nuff get through a flyer in one day...
     
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  6. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    And you probably got the one step version, although it was still very well written. Brought on during covid and expensive paper pricing.

    "1. Buy a truck and go to work."
     
  7. God prefers Diesels

    God prefers Diesels Road Train Member

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    The two step version is easier to follow. The one step version is just too much thrown at you all at once.

    Anyways, I put a puzzle together today in eight hours. Pretty proud of myself, considering the box said "6 to 8 months".
     
  8. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    Oh man.
    You’re just buying headaches using partners and investors

    remember , you heard it here first , you WILL regret having partners and investors .
    Because there’s is.m NO way they will ever be happy with the way the tiny bit of profit you may have left over every quarter is divided up among them .

    You will have 109% of the headaches and the partners and investors will demand 33% of the money .

    and there is no way to write this up and document it so that you have a business plan to dissolve the business and pay the debts .

    who’s gonna pay the insurance and truck payment when the driver quits or gets sick or has an accident or the engine blows ?
    Who’s gonna pay the repair bills ?

    what if one of the partners or investors gets sick does or gets divorced ?
    How do you handle that ?

    I’m telling you , you’re just asking for trouble having too many cooks in the kitchen . all of them will be experts telling you what to do and there won’t be enough profit to share .

    Most of the time there is barely enough profit for the one person that owns and drives the truck .

    if you want to own a truck and drive it , fine , you can do that but it’s best to learn the business by working for someone else .

    if you wanted to own and operate a pizza restaurant or nail salon wouldn’t you think it would be prudent to work at one for a year or two and learn the business before you went into debt and spent all your savings buying one and attempting to run it ?

    what’s your plan to find the loads ?
    Do you have that lined up yet ?
    Do you know someone at a shipping department somewhere that can get your foot in the door ?

    or are you going to use brokers and make a broker rich by letting them skim all the profit off the top of the good paying loads ?
     
  9. supergreatguy

    supergreatguy Road Train Member

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    I’ll say it again. My uncles truck company is 4 partners. After almost 20 years in business, everybody is fine but nobody can retire.
     
  10. PakMak

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    People like you are the problem, when there’s lots of people like you the market turns to ####. Just get it over with and start your path to bankruptcy so you can do your part.
     
  11. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Did they start 30k, one investor, and two great drivers? Probably coulda had millions with good leadership......
     
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