my opinion is that if you can find a sweet freight lane or dedicated run as a company driver and get that locked in as an owner operator you are all set, but fighting for general freight with all the other 2799 trucks it isn't worthwhile to be an owner op with TMC.
Sweetest run that I saw was an owner operator for SMX dedicated to CMC joist in Iowa Falls, IA. For the duration of the wal-mart construction project in Ames IA he delivers two loads of steel joists per day, 53 miles one way, and he was getting seventy something percent of $500 per trip. $3500 in his pocket for just over one thousand odometer miles each week, and he gets to sleep at home every night. That is the secret to success in the owner operator business.
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Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.
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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
-- J R R Tolkien
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Any O/O on here for TMC
