today we're going to talk about the difference between being a company
driver and going into the icy field if you're interested in the subject stick
around hey everyone I'm seeing a bunch of videos and this is a videos been done
by many people so everything in life has been done by someone so let's do this
one here everyone's talking about becoming an owner/operator or at least
operator if you're a company driver if you're a company driver and you're happy
and you're making decent money I say in the $1,000 a week range there's no real
reason for you to become an owner operator unless you just aspire to it I
know many of people that have spent their whole life as company drivers and
are retiring now with good incomes and with good investment strategies and
stuff and the whole owner/operator thing is more of a you you don't conform if
you're an owner operator you're not or even a lot of these drivers you're not
into conformity you're more into doing what you want to do and telling everyone
to get give up more or less but if you're making good money there's
no reason to now when you become a lease operator or an owner operator and they
are different things then it opens up a world to you that with more many more
opportunities but with those opportunities comes a lot of
responsibility a whole lot of responsibilities when it comes to
keeping track of your money in a critical way and knowing what everything
cost you you you have if you're not I listen took out of the day and he was
talking about his fuel mileage and he was saying you know he gets to like
maybe seven and a half or seven three or seven eight he had no clue what he was
getting for fuel mileage and you have to know that I mean every time I feel I run
my fuel mileage every single time you know I want to know if something is
going wrong with my truck and I'm using fuel at a strange rate because I I guess
I'm going to know something's going wrong I need to get in the shop you have
to look at different insurance companies and how you going to go competitively
search for better insurance and if you're going to put drivers on you have
to know about about it you're going to be paying paying them a percentage of
their load and not taking any any unemployment insurance because
unemployment insurance is a huge hit that most people don't realize I mean
it's just really big and workman's comp and everything else
so if your content there's no reason you can't work in as a
company driver don't ever feel like you're less because of the fact I
personally couldn't be a company driver you know when I got the military I just
bought a truck and I've been trucking ever since I wouldn't know how to be a
company driver I make decisions and they don't companies don't like people that
make decisions
sorry I'm going up a mountain and so if you're the station maker you would be
better off purchasing a truck or leasing a truck now when you leave the truck you
know a lot of people think that you're glorified company driver and in a way
you are but once you if once you prove yourself
they should just stay out of your way now if if you want to become an
owner/operator I'll touch on it but an owner/operator there's different
categories in that too because did you just be an owner operator and lease on
to a company preferably one that doesn't have company trucks
well that company may not have any company trucks but you're dispatched you
might have 15 trucks so that's something you got to think about also because
who's going to get preferential treatment in a situation like that
there's a whole bunch of stuff to know and then if you want to get your own
authority back in the day when I first got my authority I could just walk in
anywhere with my insurance paperwork and I get a load it was just that simple I
deliver a load in LA I would haul my own straight to LA and then I was just
wherever I've delivered it I'd walk in my paperwork and I'd be like hey you got
anything you won back teeth and I get a load and if they didn't have one job
next door to the company over there somebody help me alone and I would sign
the rate and I set it up nowadays if nothing works that way everything is
just a nightmare and if you get your own authority then you have to deal with the
d-o-t in a whole different way I never had to go through an audit and I do I
would not ever want to go through an audit that's why I stopped using my
authority the insurance people act like that's a big deal
insurance requirements are no big deal the money that the insurance cost is not
a big deal not at all a bit you know you're putting out 1,500 bucks 2,000
bucks a month or whatever that's not a big deal not in the scheme of things the
hard part is that you know we're always mad at the shipper but it's the trucking
company our brothers that cut our throats I'll give you an example one
summer I broke got some some loads that last me all
summer and I was making I was making like I was crazy it was I was netting
like five thousand a week running 40 miles back and forth back and forth back
and forth and another another trucking company found out what I was doing
and they came in and kept my throat and they started running the loads for $100
a pop and it's just you know I just had to walk away instead of going who will
lower my rates now it hurt my feelings but all I'm trying to say here is if you
have bigger aspirations go for it there's nothing like jumping in and just
doing it I when I was training I would tell people here you could do it you
know I could meet somebody truck with them for a week or whatever not and I
could see if this person had what it took to be a lease operator or an owner
operator it's just a matter of the person some people will never they might
want to talk the dream but walking the walk is a whole different story
if you have any questions feel free to ask them I will answer them I know stuff
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this subject at a later date there's plenty to talk about edit thanks so much
another rat rod Pete