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Originally Posted by GMAN
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Originally Posted by merrick4
When I was at the Freightliner dealer in Miami today they showed me a whole row of repos that have come in. I was thinking I wish I knew the story behind why each one failed.
The reasons for failure in this business are pretty much the same.
You know what's funny GMAN, I had a delivery one time in Up State New York at the Walmart DC. When I was done I set out to start my day and get my iced coffee. So I ask some trucker where can I find a McDonalds.
Man what a coversation I had with that guy. He was Romanian and you know how life is, if you meet one person from a country and they are a jerk they are all jerks, so by chance I just had had some Romanians as neighbors and they were the nicest people. So right away I say hello to him in his language (the only word I knew) and we get to talking. His story in this country was fascinating but too long for this.
However when we got to trucking (he was a JB Hunt O/O) he set about to tell me how he use to ask when he got into this why is that people fail. He said he asked always and always got the same answer so much so that he knew why someone failed before they even told him. Mind you all of this he was expressing in a very dramatic way and in bad English. I wish I had a recorder as his words were interesting. Just writing this does not do justice to the conversation we had.
Anyway so I ask, "Well what is it, why do people fail?" He says, "The maintenance. People don't keep up with the maintenance and when the truck breaks down they can't afford to fix it".
Obviously this is not the only reason but I just thought of that when you wrote what I quoted of you above. It does seem simple enough though. Sometimes in shops I have had mechanics tell me that people leave their trucks there for weeks at a time until they can get the money to get the truck out.
You know I know I can make it in this business, but I want to do more than make it. I want to excel. Tuesday I have an appointment with an accountant and I am excited. I want to see how I have done the last few months. (My situation is very tangled so it's harder to see profitiblity.)