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Originally Posted by GMAN
Pepe, I have spoken with a number of brokers who would rather deal with a single truck operator than a large carrier. They know that most are more reliable than the large carriers and will do what they say. Unless you tell them that you are the owner, driver, chief cook and bottle washer, they are not likely to know. They could look you up and find out, but I find it isn't that important for most of them. You need to stop putting yourself down. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with being a one man operation. I would wager that there are more single truck operations than multi truck. By the way, you mentioned previously that you were thinking about leasing on to Landstar. Is that still something you are considering or do you plan on continue running your authority?
They had a great program on Talk of The Nation on NPR today on wealth. I missed the very beginning but it was on how or when do we consider ourselves wealthy.
They had one guy call in or was just finishing med school and made the comment that there are Family Practice doctors who could treat 50 people a day all of them of much lower means and yet the doctor will compare himself with the cadiologist down the road and feel not as wealthy.
They even mentioned one guy who had a yacht but he was standing on the dock looking at the much bigger yachts and feeling like his yacht was inconsequential.
I guess in the same vein, there are many many people I've met in my short time out here who would love to be in Pepe's shoes. But I guess it's just human nature I guess to never be content with what we have; really in a way that's good cause if we were content with what we had we wouldn't strive to be better.