Didn't you do something similar to what Steve is doing? If I remember right you went on your own with only a few months experience.

 

I am not trying to cause waves here, but I also use the short form. Simplified version. I ordered them from J.J. Keller. You only need to write down or check the defects if any. It helps your hand from getting to tired. 8)

 

that has nothing to do with why I think he`ll succeed

 

Rev.Vassago wrote:
Steve, I usally don't agree with what the Rev. says but I have to agree this time. Your local DOT boys at the scale house might not have any issues but get out to another state and they might. Each DOT cop has their own intereptation of the FMCSR hand book. I think a $2.00 dollar store bought log book is cheaper then a $200 dollar fine for using a home made log book and the DOT officer finds an issue with it.

I use JJ Keller log books and they have different sizes and shapes to fit in your breifcase.

One thing on your log book that you have and do not need on their is the "To and From" that is not an issue, they do not require that anymore. On your Shipper line make sure you put the commodity down too, both of them need to be on the log or you can just show the Bill of Lading number.

Also Steve if you haul that equipment to Florida make sure you charge enough because more then likely you will be running empty out of Florida. Flatbed freight is scarce down their.

Steve keep us informed when you start hauling freight and how thing are going.

 

I didn't mean to imply that I was just curious how you went about doing it.

 

By the way I get one step closer to Montana everyday. Boy is it crowded here! :lol: :lol:

Where is some nice property in Montana?

 

I went about doing it because I somehow got a dui on my driving record and no big company would touch me even though I could prove it was gonna be dropped in court, so I worked for a little guy for a few months and made some pretty good coin but he folded cause his brother was screwing him out of money.

I already had a paid for 379 i`d been building for a few years so I found the crappiest company I could and paid the most expensive insurance premium in the world and went about my business, at first I was borrowing my flatbed off a buddy who owed me a favor, and factoring about 30% of my loads since I didnt trust the brokers.

I grew up around trucks and I was in a shop working on diesels since I was little, being in the shop I met alot of truckers who`d tell me about their great brokers and their crappy brokers, I also spent some time out in the oil fields and met alot of truckers who`d bring us parts and equipment.

anywho fast forward back to the present time, before my wife gave birth to our kids I decided to get out of otr and into heavy hauling so i`d be home more so I sold the peterbilt and built a 77 kw as bulletproof and as powerful as I could, got sick of that after a while so I put that in my wifes name and hired my bro in law, I bought another kw (albeit 20 years newer) and went back on the road, except now I called in every favor I had with my past employers in the oil patch and I mostly run stuff for them around wyoming and colorado so I can be home alot.


thats my story up to the latest chapter Rosty, where I live the californians are startin to move in, the benefit of this is the house we built near a little crappy lake is worth more then double, and our 1500$ an acre land is now worth about 17-20k an acre. i`ve been rebuilding trucks and doing custom work for a while so if we decide to sell the house and my otr truck i`d like to open a shop off I90 and maybe down the road get a couple aero trucks and keep moving oil field frieght with some employees, our only hangup is I dont trust anybody to get a job done but myself.


and theres nice land all over montana, just pick a spot.

 

Probably hard to put up with the Californians (if their city folk)but the property jump from 1500.00 to 20M ( ) is excellent. 8)

 

Brian-I'm actually going to move up to Denver here the first of the year...Get me in with some brokers, and I'll buy a flatbed and terrorize the country with ya

 

most of the oil field stuff is non brokered loads, you`d be wise to spend a weekend in casper wyoming and hit up all the companies, not only are their 5 or 6 major drilling companies there but also suppliers and service companies and exploration companies.