Henboy,
Check your email. I have been reading your threads and if youre thinking about dispatching from home, consider this: Get 5 trucks under you (yours and lessees), pay 80% gross and keep them all working. This will bring you 100% revenue of 1 truck with no fuel, driver, insurance expenses. Build your fleet in multiples of 5 and you will be comfortable and WORKING from home in no time. You WILL BE working though if you want to succeed. Some would consider what you are wanting to do insane, but they should do this also. Consider it and read my email.

Ain't nothing wrong with being a one man operation your whole career, Henboy. You don't want work@hometime you want free-time @ home with that family. How are the twins? pics? pics of wife?;)

mike3fan, It's your name on the door that makes it work.

Seriously henboy read the reports on some trucking company's, use google and look up trucking, trucking first quarter reports. Pacer lost 177 million, Con-Way 144 million, the list goes on and on. Everybody is struggling, not a good time to go it alone.
Keep your cash and keep working and wait til things start to turn around.

Everything in place
 

Pretty much everything is in place except I need to yank LS stickers off my door and cancel my lease.They even wanted to approve me as an approved carrier but they need me to first cancel my lease.
Back on the road with them 1 last time and then everything will be yanked off.
Anyone ever dealth with ShippersPoint Home
They want $99/3months, and someone said it is better than OOIDA's membersedge.com.
I have noticed most of the membersedge posted loads are from ITS.
I have also signed up with most of the 3PLs I could think of.


1.My second question is Ritchi Brothers.Since signing on for their Rbidonline auctions I have been watching the auctions online.Anyone ever bought a truck/trailer from them?

I got my truck from them. It was previously owned by a O/O so it was taken care of. Some of the trucks are beaten up and some are really nice. I went in person to inspect it first.

Pepe also got his truck there too.

What % of beat up trucks compared to decent ones did you see there?I plan on going to the one next week in atlanta.They sold an 03 Columbia online yesterday for $5500 and I wondered what was wrong with it.Most 2003 flats were going for $3000-$4000.
Is Pepe still running as an independent or did he get married in Asia?

Keep in mind too that a lot of the sellers are construction companies and lots of day cabs. My observation is the nicer the weather the nicer the trucks. Ex: I've seen nicer trucks in Houston than Chicago. It all depends too if it's a fleet being sold or trucks that are repo's. There were some 2006 T600's yesterday in Houston from Melton that looked nice. For OTR trucks, based on my experience it's about 20-25% that got my attention. Bottom line is plan on spending some money to fix things. I saved about 12k vs going to dealer. I've spent about $600 on little things to make it right and about $1000 in travel. I don't travel cheap so someone else could do it for about $250.

I don't know what Pepe is up to since he left the board. Steve Booth talks to him once in a while. Last time Steve updated, Pepe was still running around the US getting pulled in a lot, but passing inspection.

I was looking at that same Houston Auction online, but I missed the ones I really wanted to see.Do you know how much the 2006 T-600 Melton truckls went for?I believe someone can get a better deal when they are a fleet rather than an individual truck.

On the other note, hopefully this prepass that I just recieved will help a bit.

The Melton trucks went for 30k. One guy bought a couple of them. You normally get a better price when there is a fleet because the buyers don't get as anxious and over bid. You normally get a better deal on a more expensive truck because there is less people bidding against you. EX: not everyone has 50k for a truck, but everyone has 5-10k laying around.

Getting ready for a truck in about 3 months.
 

I am doing research in getting a 2nd truck in about 3 months.
I am currently on the market looking for a 2nd truck.I have also started going to these public auctions. I am seeing 2001/2002 columbias and some 9400 internationals.I like the look of the 9900I but I guess it is just like a w9 or the 379.I know the freightliners are not the best trucks but I would like an advice on an 2001/2002 aero truck.I will be looking for a truck with an s60 in it that will mostly run flatlands.


Thanks!