Rookie Driver Becoming A Owner Operator Without Hesitation

I've seen enough to know I can make more leasing a truck.

This is where I consider you dead wrong. You haven't even got a good taste of how this works yet. Getting paid more per mile does not necessarily mean you are making more, but that one you will have to figure out on your own - after all you yourself said it wasn't "rocket science".

It seems to me that the main thing you have figured out is that you don't like to be stuck in the right lane. Impatience isn't necessarily considered ambition in my estimation.

Cmon brett dont you love my enthusiasm. You could hire me. And old school. Thanks for your advice. I listen to yall veteran truckers. Im not jumping into this blind now.

I dont know if I told yall this but ive been driving a truck and trailer for over 3 years before I got my cdl. It gave me a major advantage in school and just period driving. I still remember 3 years ago how crazy it was to only see out of 2 mirrors and backing was out of question. I guess I am not a true rookie. The trailer is just longer. Has more power and its a bigger rig. Driving it is the same. Backing and cruising around truckstops or a shipper reciever is a lot different. Its harder but I aint no stranger coming in to this. Im not just a random joe going from a honda civic into towing trailers. I do have experience prior on busy crazy roads and highways for 3 years. 30foot trailers.

I aint no stranger coming in to this. Im not just a random joe going from a honda civic into towing trailers. I do have experience prior on busy crazy roads and highways for 3 years.

Classic mistake of thinking that because you know how to do a job you should become a business owner. That's the #1 reason in my opinion that businesses fail....because people run their businesses as if it's only a job. They wake up, do the job, eat dinner, and go to bed. Doing the job is the easy part of owning and operating a business. It's everything else you have to do besides producing your product or service that makes or breaks a business and you have no experience running a trucking business.

In sports you'll often find people who make that mistake. They think because they were great players it must mean they can coach, recruit, draft, manage personnel, and maybe even own the team outright. And most of them fail miserably. Michael Jordan was the greatest player of all time but has been an embarrassment as a General Manager and owner. Matt Millen was a Hall of Fame player who took a shot at being the General Manager of the Detroit Lions and it went horribly. There are a thousand examples of this.

Well, we've shared our experiences and you know our feelings on it. Time for you to pony up your life savings, setup some financing that will lock you in for years, and roll the dice. Hey, it can only end two ways right? You'll either succeed like about 5% of the people have or you'll run away screaming like the other 95%. So what the heck...go for it!

Your biggest reason for being an owner operator is to drive fast in the left lane??? Seriously?? I'm sure you'll get on the cb and make sure you make rude comments to the company drivers in governed trucks as you go by too, thus proving what a real super trucker you are as well right? You have as many miles total under your belt that I get in as month of driving and drove over the Tapen Zee bridge and George Washington. You've covered 6 maybe 7 states in all your experience out of the lower 48.

Well hell with those numbers it's hard to argue you have it all figured out!! I see this going very well for you!!

I'm very confident I'm not going to read about you plowing into stopped traffic in your chicken truck driving 70 mph in the left lane because as you've mentioned, you have alot of experience!

Good luck!

Are we sure somebody isn't just yanking our chains here?

IF this guy is for real and not just an elaborate troll, I'll be interested to see how hard he backpedals after he has to buy that first $3000+ set of drives, or has to pay out of pocket for that major repair that isn't under warranty. Hell, at 10k miles he hasn't even had to shell out for his first scheduled maintenance yet.

Are we sure somebody isn't just yanking our chains here?

Everybody is so busy feeding the troll. So will I! I responded and posted in this thread that reeks of troll dung.

I aint no stranger coming in to this. Im not just a random joe going from a honda civic into towing trailers. I do have experience prior on busy crazy roads and highways for 3 years.

Classic mistake of thinking that because you know how to do a job you should become a business owner. That's the #1 reason in my opinion that businesses fail....because people run their businesses as if it's only a job. They wake up, do the job, eat dinner, and go to bed. Doing the job is the easy part of owning and operating a business. It's everything else you have to do besides producing your product or service that makes or breaks a business and you have no experience running a trucking business.

In sports you'll often find people who make that mistake. They think because they were great players it must mean they can coach, recruit, draft, manage personnel, and maybe even own the team outright. And most of them fail miserably. Michael Jordan was the greatest player of all time but has been an embarrassment as a General Manager and owner. Matt Millen was a Hall of Fame player who took a shot at being the General Manager of the Detroit Lions and it went horribly. There are a thousand examples of this.

Well, we've shared our experiences and you know our feelings on it. Time for you to pony up your life savings, setup some financing that will lock you in for years, and roll the dice. Hey, it can only end two ways right? You'll either succeed like about 5% of the people have or you'll run away screaming like the other 95%. So what the heck...go for it!

I have to agree with Brett. I spent 18 years managing businesses for other people making them money so I know that aspect. I have my CDL now and would like to own my own truck someday and have the business background to support that should it happen. Owning a truck is not about just driving it...it is about knowing when to eat tuna from a can and when you can splurge on that one steak dinner you treat yourself to when times are good. But only one because money in the bank is what matters when you run your own business. Fluctuating fuel prices, supply and demand, economic cycles both world and domestic will all need to be considered if you own your own truck. Also flexibility...can you jump from one endorsement to another when you experience a downturn? Good luck to you but running full speed into something that takes way more than shifting gears and passing other trucks may take a little more foresight than what you have put into it thus far.