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Businesses certainly can be purchased today or next week/month/year when affairs are in order. No problem. However, those of you that would sign a title for equipment, with out a nickel in any form of payment, and send it down the road with a person with integrity, needs to show me your hands...

Congrats. Sounds like you have it scalded. Just don't get cold feet this time, when they have the title wavin under your nose.

RE: Is it important for your carrier to be certifi ISO,SMISO. Is simply put, that all in the chain know how to react to a certain event, conjured up by someone normally not in the foxhole. In a perfect world, the answer will be correct. That is why all the "thinkers" on this site have...

Either way you go with this, i'll suggest that your soup will probably get pretty thin, if you are planning on trucking for a six month vacation each year.

Sadly, taking ten minutes to change a headlamp at 8 AM, in a delivery parking lot, however admirable, instead of at 2 AM when discovered, will probably get you no cigar's in this ruff and tumble world. Seems clear to me that the responding cop had it in for trucks, or, there is more to the...

Fortuneately the "sitting and waiting" can be avoided, depending on what direction you choose to go. Your truck will be an advantage if, you chose to not sit and wait. The specs you gave are adequate for a h/w team, tou should enjoy yourself.

Home for the holidays? Nah. I'm goin against the grain again, and takin off for the East Coast of Texas for the winter on 20 Dec. You all have a happy Christmas doing whatever you are doing. Mabee see you in Corpus!!

Been there, done that my friend. congrats on some good runn'in!! Most wouldn't get outa the chute.

C'mon, if they're makeing a grand a week who cares about ten or twelve bucks either way?? If tho, on average they are making five hundred, then, ten or twelve might be an issue. I guess I don't understand why the discussion if, all things are as typed. Giv'em 18% and everybodys happy...

I'm not at all pick'in at your truck. Sorry if you felt that. I'm just saying, keep your costs down, and do it for yourself. If in fact your payments approach 40% of gross, shame on you. Ten percent or less would be realistic I feel. The 80K figure I mentioned, which IS a lot of money to me...

I'll agree with LETZROCK. If it were any better than this, I couldn't stand it.

It appears to me your van has cost you about eight cent a mile (and counting down) to run it. GOOD JOB!! $.90 - $.08 (equip) - $.20 (fuel) leaves somewhere $.62 X 385,000 = $238,700.00 minus whatever dead head. Seems to me a fella should be able to live pretty comfy over a 3 year period or...

I prefer to use the Ma and Pa type shops when I can find one on the road. Seems to me they, for the most part are still "mechanics" as well as "technicians". Seems you only find technicians in the bigger shops instead of the good ole problem solving "wrenches".

That's right ATEAM, 40% of gross makes a heck of a truck payment if you need one. I wouldn't drive a truck for someone across the street in this business (going against expert recommendations on this site) for just the reasons you state in your post. I also would not invest 80K in a machine...

RE: Which company actually cares about good driver Flatbeddin: I'm certainly not putin you down, if you are typing about me. Fact is i'm trying to help you understand the business. It is an imperfect world. Read what I typed. I will say tho, that if spending time with family and friends is...

RE: Which company actually cares about good driver A trip to the grocery store for milk, Dr Pepper, whatever, cheaper in Michigan than Pennsylvania? You will never convince me! Regardless, slide'in home, while under load Will bite you in the A$$ someday.

RE: Which company actually cares about good driver I have to chime in here on this subject I guess. First, a hundred fourty bucks to babysit freight a couple days over the weekend really ain't bad. What was you going to do those two days, other than dead head home? Second, instead of being...

Yes, a very good post. Seems most folks that are in this business have acquired, from somewhere, a "handy dandy little woodchuck guide to expediting" in which states somewhere, that, you can't enjoy yourself on the road. Couldn't be further from the facts. I have had folks that have run long...

That should give the auto parts haulers a break over Christmas.

Unfortuneately, seems to be a quality of repairs issue here, rather than brand. I'm convinced, without being told, that your drivers departed the truck and into their comfy motel room, and never darkened the door of the shop to supervise or ask questions about the repair. Because, they didn't...