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Wow...The moderator is calling Steve a hobby trucker. But i guess we are all supposed to be above insults and calling names. Lol I just found this amusing.

Oh yea, well...you still look like a bat and you drool when you sleep

[solo379]

Wow...The moderator is calling Steve a hobby trucker. But i guess we are all supposed to be above insults and calling names.

"Hobby trucker" is not a "name", or(and) "insult"!
It's just "nature" of someone business! :P

It would really be a drag to be called a tourist trucker. Boy, I'm glad I'm not called that!!!

[tinytim]

For your information, the issue that a lot of these guys have with you is the hobby trucker mentality that you display. What works for you, works for you because of your financial setup and business sense. It won't work for the majority of the would-be owner operators out there and you have been called on it many times and rightfully so.

I read through all of part 1,2 & 3 and saw that point brought up many times. Too many times IMO. I saw absolutely nothing posted that would make someone think they could jump into the same situation without a large chunk of money to get started, to compensate for the delay in getting paid, to deal with the costs of keeping the truck on the road and to cover expenses at home.

If anything, those posts helped me to realize just how costly it is to get started in that situation. I'm sure the intentions were good in many posts but really, as a new reader, it seems some posters think the large majority of us reading it are too challenged to absorb some basic math.

Well, off the read part 4

[Twilight Flyer]

Calling someone a "hobby trucker" is not an insult...nowhere near it. A "hobby trucker" is someone like Steve...fresh off another successful career with money in the bank. If it doesn't work for Steve, he's not going to be hurting. I have nothing against Steve or his success - I think it's great and a lot of guys would love to be in his position. There's no doubt that its' enviable.

But the opposite side of that coin needs to be presented and several posters do that quite well. For your average owner-operator wannabe, doing things Steve's way is a recipe for financial disaster. It won't take much of a curveball to totally bury someone that isn't fully prepared, especially in today's monster world of fuel and operating costs.

[geomon]

Calling someone a "hobby trucker" is not an insult...

However saying you look like a bat and drool in your sleep IS :P

Them's fightin words....

[Darin Younce]

Just curious , at what point does one get elevated from "hobby trucker"to professional trucker? :?

[Twilight Flyer]

However saying you look like a bat and drool in your sleep IS

Unless I do look like a bat and drool in my sleep.

Just curious , at what point does one get elevated from "hobby trucker"to professional trucker?

It's a paperwork thing. You have to fill out a bunch of forms, take a vow of celibacy, and live with mountain monks for 6 months eating mothballs and moldy cheese. Then they give you a plaque and you're a certified professional trucker.

[Darin Younce]

Well , I,ve filled out all the forms , taken the vow and there is a convent
within 10 miles of my house with a bunch of ugly nuns , will that do? :twisted:

[ncnewbie]

I'm not eating balls, moths' or otherwise!

[Twilight Flyer]

Well , I,ve filled out all the forms , taken the vow and there is a convent within 10 miles of my house with a bunch of ugly nuns , will that do?

If the nuns are ugly, you get the Super Trucker plaque. If they look and sing like Sister Mary Roberts from the movie Sister Act, take her up to a cabin in the mountains and forget about the rest of the world.

[tootie04]

It would really be a drag to be called a tourist trucker. Boy, I'm glad I'm not called that!!!

That is Pro tourist thank you!! :wink: :wink:

I believe Steve has visted the monks already.....


I think bats are COOL!!

tootie

Just curious , at what point does one get elevated from "hobby trucker"to professional trucker? :?

I have been wondering the same thing...Steve has been a "hobby trucker" for about a year or more now without drowning out. Everyone on this board says dont come into this game without being fully funded and prepared...well he did that and is doing ok so far. So what if he saved up money from another job...either way he came in prepared. At what point are yout not a hobby trucker. Just curious...he left one profession for another.

[Darin Younce]

Well I think I saw one that looked like the flying nun but she flew by too fast to get a good look.

[allan5oh]

I guess people think this place is a democracy?

I believe Steve has visted the monks already.....

Yes, but they didn't fly so I'm sure it doesn't count.

[Darin Younce]

According to section 1 paragraph 2 Of the Hobby Trucker Handbook , Monks always take precident over Nuns even if they(Nuns) are classified as having the ability fly with one excepton. That exception being as stated in Paragraph 4, the Nun or Nuns are onelegged. :P

[Rev.Vassago]

[Darin Younce]

Sorry REV forgot to mention ,Clergy such as yourself are excluded!