I wanted to get some advice to make sure I'm on the right track. My husband and I own a dump truck but we are not making the money we would like to be making. We hope to be more successful as O/O's. Here's the plan: we both go to the 9 week 320 hour school (it starts August 22nd) and graduate with our class A cdl's. Then I get hired on by a company and get the crappy pay for 6 months to a year, but get the experience. He stays at home driving the dump truck. After my 6 months or so of experience, we buy our own tractor, start driving together and I teach him the ropes. We don't really want to drive as a "team", as we don't think we can sleep while the other is driving, but we would be on the road together to help each other out and keep each other company, but only driving a total of 14-16 hours a day. And hopefully be making a lot more money then the dump truck.
An addendum question: The dump truck is making us about $1,100 in a good week if we work 5 days. This is after broker fee and diesel, but before maintenance/tires etc. Any O/O's out there making more then this? What should we expect to make?
Thanks!