Love the toy story clip! I have curiosities if you don't mind explaining... when you say you made more working for someone else, is that more because of "the times" right now? Economy, gas prices, and things like that? So ride out the bad times and things could get good again? Or is it just because it's almost always tough in the start up process? Just wondering if it's specific to the last 3 years being the issue, so more of poor timing
the last three years have been a decline in general as far as profit vs cost as the cost of tires, fuel and oils are higher, and the average rate per mile has been on the decrease. so yes, poor timing there. However, what i was mainly getting after is when i was an owner op, running one truck, my time investment to monetary pay out, so lets say dollar per hour was higher, as the was one truck to maintain, and a company i was leased to took on the majority of the paperwork. so my dollar per hour was better. the startup is always tough, which is something that i dont feel is generally talked about enough. nobody told me how many times you gotta hit your head against the brick wall before you "win" so to speak. many drivers i had talked to who were independant had been in it over 15 years so they mentioned the most recent 10 years (which sounded not easy but reasonable) and neglected to mention the first 5. as a company driver, you hop in a truck, you drive, you go home, the company handles all maintenance and paperwork (invoicing, payroll, ifta, etc) so you are either on the clock or you are going home. if you pull the trigger and run the show, you generally end up doing the book keeping, dispatching and such at one section of the day, you might go out on the occasional run here or there, but keeping drivers happy is a 24-7 on call job, if one of my guys blows a tire at 3 AM on a sunday, i answer the phone, if i got someone who hits a deer at midnight in iowa, its time to load up the gear and head on a roadtrip, yes, i am aware inmany cases like a blown tire it is obviously more economical to use a tire shop, so i dont have to go on that adventure, but someone will still need my payment details. so in a long way of saying, dollar made for me personally vs my hours invested i was more profitable when it was just me. that is not to say there isnt joy to be had in my little community, because i absolutely enjoy those i work with, its a joy, its a lifestyle so to speak, but it isnt nearly the "dream" i had previously believed monetarily speaking. which may have been naive or may have been because i missunderstood or was mislead, but I am attempting to show the good, bad or just simply how a guy feels on a random given day
@@Pirateshiplabs very well put! I hope you get thru to that "easier beyond the start up" part soon! I didn't do trucking but I did do managing and having a good team is so important, if you have that already then you are already a step ahead of most!
Love the toy story clip! I have curiosities if you don't mind explaining... when you say you made more working for someone else, is that more because of "the times" right now? Economy, gas prices, and things like that? So ride out the bad times and things could get good again? Or is it just because it's almost always tough in the start up process? Just wondering if it's specific to the last 3 years being the issue, so more of poor timing
the last three years have been a decline in general as far as profit vs cost as the cost of tires, fuel and oils are higher, and the average rate per mile has been on the decrease. so yes, poor timing there. However, what i was mainly getting after is when i was an owner op, running one truck, my time investment to monetary pay out, so lets say dollar per hour was higher, as the was one truck to maintain, and a company i was leased to took on the majority of the paperwork. so my dollar per hour was better.
the startup is always tough, which is something that i dont feel is generally talked about enough. nobody told me how many times you gotta hit your head against the brick wall before you "win" so to speak. many drivers i had talked to who were independant had been in it over 15 years so they mentioned the most recent 10 years (which sounded not easy but reasonable) and neglected to mention the first 5.
as a company driver, you hop in a truck, you drive, you go home, the company handles all maintenance and paperwork (invoicing, payroll, ifta, etc) so you are either on the clock or you are going home.
if you pull the trigger and run the show, you generally end up doing the book keeping, dispatching and such at one section of the day, you might go out on the occasional run here or there, but keeping drivers happy is a 24-7 on call job, if one of my guys blows a tire at 3 AM on a sunday, i answer the phone, if i got someone who hits a deer at midnight in iowa, its time to load up the gear and head on a roadtrip, yes, i am aware inmany cases like a blown tire it is obviously more economical to use a tire shop, so i dont have to go on that adventure, but someone will still need my payment details.
so in a long way of saying, dollar made for me personally vs my hours invested i was more profitable when it was just me. that is not to say there isnt joy to be had in my little community, because i absolutely enjoy those i work with, its a joy, its a lifestyle so to speak, but it isnt nearly the "dream" i had previously believed monetarily speaking. which may have been naive or may have been because i missunderstood or was mislead, but I am attempting to show the good, bad or just simply how a guy feels on a random given day
@@Pirateshiplabs very well put! I hope you get thru to that "easier beyond the start up" part soon! I didn't do trucking but I did do managing and having a good team is so important, if you have that already then you are already a step ahead of most!