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I can think of reasons to bale. The old putting the cart before the horse. Joined but never got the business up and running. Or just leased to a carrier. Or maybe changed course, running for his customers. Maybe round trip or out and back. In any case that’s a lot to spend for something you’re...

Andy can make extra $$$ doing consulting work on matters such as these.

Amazon could easily do this without these contractors. Seems like the idea is to pass the worker’s compensation and unemployment liabilities on to these smaller guys. Anyone see any other motive ?

Missed that you may be leasing the vans from/thru your shipper., If you can do so profitably, it may be in your best interest to continue doing so. If lots of people get other vans, the company may not tolerate thier vans sitting. So they may favor people with their vans. A big selling point...

You may find a Ryder or Penske type operation that will carry the note if they’re stuck with a quantity of vans coming in off a lease. Probably the smaller the company the more interest they’ll show in you. Or find dealers that buy large quantities of used vans. Can you hire your own...

It’s still quite profitable..... Do you know that, or hope that ? Do you have an accountant, not H&R Block, but an accountant that tells you you’ll be profitable figuring future tax liabilities, etc? Are your drivers employees ? I hope so. That’s more expensive than most people can imagine. If...

Have you talked to a reputable rental company about long term leases? Should be much cheaper than renting. The longer you commit, the cheaper per month . Do you have any kind of financial guarantee from the shipper ? And how do you find 20 drivers in 2 weeks?

Ever hear of Roadway Express ? Amazon probably won’t do this but..,, Roadway went around the country feeding/pushing small trucking companies. To keep the every expanding business they had to build a Roadway designed terminal. Then once heavily leveraged, Roadway would pull the rug out from...

If you don’t have an oil cooler, wouldn’t adding one bring about another quart into play ?

The bigger problem is it stays in your system 30 days or so. Get drunk on Saturday night, you’re ok to work on Monday. Get stoned Saturday night and you might as well take the rest of the month off. If you take the rest of the month off, you’ll probably keep getting high. You might as well...

Well played.

Can non-Turkeys participate ?

I’d like one twice the size. The Super Bowl Edition.

Rags, from your personal collection ?

Too many people want to do this. If very few wanted to do it the carriers would have to pony up a bigger share. Back “in the day” car haulers built their own trailers. Ryder owned Delavan. And they would cut them up rather than sell to what could become their competition. They really had...

The Lions will play better. Or it’ll be easier to laugh off the loses.

Pretty early to be playing for draft picks.

Eli’s last full year ? If they don’t protect him better, he may not survive this year. No comments on the Lions, who I read earlier this week were “ In the playoff hunt“ ?

I sold cars for 6 months. Mainly to learn how to buy cars. They’ll tell you ANYTHING to get you to come in. They can’t make any money from you until they entice you to show up.

I never talk numbers but the last two people that talked to me about my truck have no reefer experience. This they don’t understand the value or potential of a reefer. And I’m retired so I have nothing to lose. My numbers for the year were computed today. $130,232 for 31,360 miles. That’s...