Your average weekly revenue?

When you started with one, were you driving it, or did you have a driver from the start?

 

Id be lucky to hit $1300 net in two weeks and this isnt the worst gig around by far.

 

Why don’t you just shut up! LOL jk.

Yeah I did drive but I also had a driver if that makes sense. No way insurance was going to cover a 24 yr old with fresh cdl and 15 yrs of farm experience. So, my buddy, I hired him to drive part time and be the primary on insurance. Went from there...

 

LMAO Yea, when I started I drove and bought a couple more when I had a driver lined up, and had a few (very few) select oo's running too. I made it a point to not buy anymore than I could pay for driving my truck though.
I had very good drivers, that virtually never had to put a truck in the shop on the road, I would have not even done it if I had to scrounge for drivers or had any turnover at all to speak of. When I hired a driver and bought a truck for them to drive, the deal was they sat in that truck for three years, and they all went over that.

 

To be fair you have no idea on how much operating capital op has available and a 10k hit may not be a ship sinker for him.

He made the investment and is now coming here looking for advice.

Likely so but is the default answer of "Sell It" really good advice to help him save his investment?

Maybe so but I'd would rather hear solutions on how to repair what's broken rather than to just throw it in the trash.

 

I suggest Ed he find a carrier not a broker that will dispatch driver as part of the deal .,...I don't think there is saving this deal as it stands

 

To be fair there is absolutely no realistic way for him to make money in this set up. There is no way to repair it and even if he has saved up 50k, that still would not help him out, it simply would be just dumping money in a hole.
The only logilac way for him is to sell and get out of this as soon as possible

 

So if you 'DUNE-T' owned this asset (the truck) you'd just abandon it vs changing strategy?

 

Selling a good running truck with an affordable, reliable driver to fix a management problem is like changing mufflers when your fuel pump dies.

Its a bad diagnosis and a worse attempt at a cure. Seriously. There is NOTHING logical there.

 

Do you own a truck yourself?