you Know What?
#1
08-14-2009, 02:38 AM
you Know What?
The more I read this board the more I am glad I did what I did.
Went to the local community college and took their 6 week driving course ($1260) Learned just enough to get my CDL. Bought a truck and trailer and took off and taught myself. Backed into my first dock on my first load. It has been a year and 3 weeks and all is good. Have been able to put money in the bank everyweek, I take a week off wheneverI get tired of running, No Dm, BM's or whatever you call them telling me which roads to run and where I can buy fuel. No qualcoms tracking my every move and trying to match a log book to it. No 60mph truck and watching the speedometer that it doesn't hit 70 on a hill. 3900 miles a week, everyweek with no hassles!!!!
#3
08-14-2009, 02:59 AM
Scott,
what type of loads are you pulling? do you have a dedicated account that you work from, or are you fishing every week for new loads from various companies? Congrats on being able to handle the owner operator world right from the start. Kevin your new signature line would beg to differ on how much of a man you really are, in fact it kind of shows the imaturity of your real personality. You should have just left well enough alone and not made any statement about removing the last signature line.. Oh well, Kids will be kids... Timberwolf
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#4
08-14-2009, 03:00 AM
The more I read this board the more I am glad I did what I did.
Went to the local community college and took their 6 week driving course ($1260) Learned just enough to get my CDL. Bought a truck and trailer and took off and taught myself. Backed into my first dock on my first load. It has been a year and 3 weeks and all is good. Have been able to put money in the bank everyweek, I take a week off wheneverI get tired of running, No Dm, BM's or whatever you call them telling me which roads to run and where I can buy fuel. No qualcoms tracking my every move and trying to match a log book to it. No 60mph truck and watching the speedometer that it doesn't hit 70 on a hill. 3900 miles a week, everyweek with no hassles!!!! Went thru the OR scales at Cascade Locks the other night. They had 12 trucks sitting there OOS, for log violations. While I was standing there watching them go thru my log book, the chicka on the computer called out, "This one crossed at CottonWood @ such and such time, and crossed Woodburn 2 hours early!! Pull him in!!!". They are tracking trucks by the license plate number!
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#5
08-14-2009, 03:06 AM
:rofl::rofl:
Went thru the OR scales at Cascade Locks the other night. They had 12 trucks sitting there OOS, for log violations. While I was standing there watching them go thru my log book, the chicka on the computer called out, "This one crossed at CottonWood @ such and such time, and crossed Woodburn 2 hours early!! Pull him in!!!". They are tracking trucks by the license plate number!
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#6
08-14-2009, 03:11 AM
While they were doing my book, I watched. They were imputting the truck license plate number. Then seeing where all it has been registered the last XX hours. Which explains why on my way north I saw so many open weigh stations in UT, ID and OR.
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#7
08-14-2009, 03:13 AM
i gotcha...
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#8
08-14-2009, 03:14 AM
Scott,
what type of loads are you pulling? do you have a dedicated account that you work from, or are you fishing every week for new loads from various companies? Congrats on being able to handle the owner operator world right from the start. Kevin your new signature line would beg to differ on how much of a man you really are, in fact it kind of shows the imaturity of your real personality. You should have just left well enough alone and not made any statement about removing the last signature line.. Oh well, Kids will be kids... Timberwolf
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In order to HAVE pride, you must first TAKE pride.
#9
08-14-2009, 03:20 AM
The more I read this board the more I am glad I did what I did.
Went to the local community college and took their 6 week driving course ($1260) Learned just enough to get my CDL. Bought a truck and trailer and took off and taught myself. Backed into my first dock on my first load. It has been a year and 3 weeks and all is good. Have been able to put money in the bank everyweek, I take a week off wheneverI get tired of running, No Dm, BM's or whatever you call them telling me which roads to run and where I can buy fuel. No qualcoms tracking my every move and trying to match a log book to it. No 60mph truck and watching the speedometer that it doesn't hit 70 on a hill. 3900 miles a week, everyweek with no hassles!!!! :thumbsup: :clap: Scottt, it's always great to hear of someone who got out there, did the thing, and did it right. Kudos.
#10
08-14-2009, 05:22 AM
We just run from south of I-80 in Iowa to the Los Angeles area. I haul about the same thing every week. We have 5 or 6 places we go to in LA and we get 1 load a day back out of the same place. If there is more than 1 truck in LA whoever gets unloaded first gets the gravy load and the other gets a brokered load. |
