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Originally Posted by GMAN
Those who have never achieved success assume that those who are successful are either lying about their success or have cheated and stolen their way to the top. They think that others could not have possibly achieved success the honest way. After all, the accuser was not able to achieve success, so they assume others can't be successful. I am very happy for your success, Merrick. I also appreciate your posting about your progress, good and bad. As you know, all businesses have their ups and downs. Things don't always run smoothly. It is how we handle the bumps along the way that makes the difference. Most members come to this and other trucking forums to learn from those who have achieved success. It helps to learn from those who have been there and done that. I hope you continue to prosper and grow your business as much as you want.
Thank you for your kind words GMAN (and others), remember though success is a vague definition. Though I am appreciative of what I have, I have a burning desire to accomplish much more. Also being a father has changed me completely. For me I would say success is making sure she grows up to be a decent human being.
Anyway a lot going on. I hired a new part-time girl today. I'm getting staff heavy and again I don't see how people run over 30 trucks on a few people. But the driver manager/safety person (and also goes to the yard every morning to check on the trucks) I don't need him wasting time standing there scanning logs or the bookkeeper wasting time on filing paperwork.
We also have a policy that if a driver bangs up a piece of equipment they can either pay for the damage or leave. Well one didn't like that today so I guess went in the office cussing up a storm. I wasn't there but he was saying it's not his truck why should he have to pay for it. I guess the question could be, it's not his truck why is he banging it up (especially after he was told not to do what he did). We have drivers calling literally every day though so his truck won't be sitting. Almost always, I fire them they come back in a couple weeks and wanting their jobs back. The way he left, he won't be coming back.
Also we are having a little setback with the intermodal thing. I guess insurance is getting worse and worse. Now I found out that Ryder will only allowing be on the certs only scheduled vehicles not Hired/non-hired. This is a requirement for getting set up with the UIIA. So I might have to set up another company for that. My rep said a lot of people are Ryder customers and always had their own insurance are calling up and inquiring about Ryder's insurance. This might be my chance to try out Penske. One major problem with Ryder, is their RydeSmart system which is basically Teletrac but has the Ryder name. It's a bad system. Penske uses Peoplenet which I had before and loved it.
Then I don't know if you guys saw the article on registering with Carb. We started to register and have that number (I forget what it's called) but I assumed as long as you had a Carb compliant unit you were good. But from what I read each trailer will have to be registered.
I saw a quote from Ronald Regan (I was small when he was in office and don't even follow politics but it's a good quote). If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops subsidize it.
I guess that's how he summed up the government. Seems to ring true.