I quit McDonald’s after being there for 15 years! We were corporate owned then some mother and son came in from Ohio and bought our stores in my town and it all just went down hill from there. So many crew and managers have quit since this happened. Most of them working there 10+ years.
[California] I'm thinking about getting into trucking and I'd like to get a better feel of the kind of income I can expect to see. Assuming I'm hauling a regular dry van in normal weather, what kind of gross revenue and net profits would I expect to see? How much are the biggest monthly expenses (assuming I already own a truck and trailer).
How fierce is competition? What do websites even mean by 'fierce'? Is it difficult sometimes to get a well paying rate? How much of your trip are you typically deadheading?
My brother who saved up $100k just got his CDL and wants to buy a new truck then start his owner operator business. I tried to convince him to go work for a company for at least 6 months to get some experience but he refuses to listen and argue that everything will work fine. I’m losing my shit because this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Any chances that I could be wrong?
In Florida, it is my understanding that technically & legally, a person cannot bring their pet dog inside any eatery/restaurant and dine within. Outdoor dining is the exception, as that is a popular choice in most places. Of course, people do bring their pet dogs inside eateries, often claiming it's a service/ESA exception. Just as common are those that don't even fake the service animal angle and just bring in their pet dog knowing they can, because management usually looks the other way. I'm not talking about that, about customers who circumvent the rules put forth by state/local government or individual businesses. I'm talking about a restaurant owner themself actively promoting, against current law/ordinances (?), that any and all dogs, service animal or not, are welcome to come inside and dine along with their owners.
In this case, a local café that serves food openly advertises and encourages customers to bring their pet dogs inside the coffee shop, no exclusions. It's a very popular place, and customers take full advantage of the invitation, showing off their dogs on social media getting cozy inside (and outside) the restaurant, while they eat and drink.
From the café's facebook page:
BRCC: We love dogs! Come see us and grab a drink for you, and a cup for your pup! ☕🐾
Customer: Are dogs allowed inside?
BRCC: Yes!
Customer: Awesome! Thank you!
And so customers do bring their dogs of all kinds inside, with a complete understanding that it is allowed and supported by the owners themselves.
Can a city grant individual businesses exemption from state laws regarding animals in restaurants? I have looked over my city municode and can't find any wording that says the city can/will give special exemption from restaurant health codes standards. In fact, though the wording is outdated, the city ordinance says No animal, with the exception of seeing eye dogs, shall be permitted in restaurants. Animals are not permitted in grocery stores or other establishments selling food or staple goods. Animals found in prohibited places shall be impounded. Are certain business owners that determined to make a profit, that they would brazenly violate state and city health codes so they can drum up even more business? Have they been granted a special exemption? How is this not a liabil
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Fuk I meant net not gross
Will I make at least $50,000 a year living in California? Is it realistic to be successful if my only experience is two years OTR?
Do you pay yourself weekly/biweekly/monthly/by the job?
Do you take your net profit and calculate your take home pay after you’ve deducted your overhead and profit?
What do you think would be a great gift for someone who just bought his first truck? My cousin got his class A a little over a year ago and was driving as a company driver. He just bought his first truck and will be running on his own under his own authority.
Just wanted to pick your brains and see what would be a great gift that I can buy for him.
He got himself a 2020 Volvo 860
My company I work for only hauls Dry products, no refers, no flat beds.
Thankfully they left the payouts on the BOL so I have a pretty good understanding of Dry haul margins.
Back home I talked to a very successful business owner that started as fresh water franking, now doing nothing but refers.
Didn't want to discuss payouts since we were all at church.
Anyone have any experience with both payouts?
What's the pros or cons, problems that are common?
Hey guys,
I'll keep this short and sweet, essentially the broker and their Rate Confirmation had said that I would be returning with an empty trailer but when I finished delivering the load, to swap to the empty, I had checked to dry van to find that there was still loaded pallets in the trailer. Nothing extreme other than about 4 to 5 loaded pallets worth of goods in the trailer.
I called to double-check with the broker because the RC claimed it would be empty, and they said I was okay to bring back the trailer anyways to the customer. But, I was unsure pretty much the whole ride and was wondering if I could request a revised RC because the customer also claimed it would be empty when questioned earlier at the customer's dispatching office. Should I raise the rate? Or not even bother.
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Not a freight broker, but I subcontract with an owner/operator for my business.
Where would I start looking for LTL/FTL jobs, one-offs or regular routes? How realistic is a regular, scheduled weekly route?
Some of my clients are 4-5 hrs out from the city, and are looking for pickups, so the idea here is to find pickups, regular or whenever available, and see what we can get.
Thanks! Appreciate the advice/guidance.
General freight. Sleeper with a 53' dry van. Just looking to see what you guys are paying out there for your "mom and pop" operations. With just a single truck/trailer.
I was just looking at some numbers from DOT and the average fleet size for active DOT numbers in the USA is.... 103 power units!!! I'm sure the numbers are skewed a little by the giants in the industry that have over 1000 trucks (Swift/UPS/etc) but man, it just puts things in perspective on how little the little guy is.
Hey guys I was wondering how feasible being a day cab owner operator is. Obviously owning day cabs is profitable, otherwise they wouldn’t exist. However I want to know if it’s realistic to find full time year round work as a solo day cab owner op. If so what range of gross pay could I expect? Info on anyones location would be nice, but I’m moving to San Antonio in a while. Not against sleeping in the truck once in a blue moon.
I have my class one I like to drive with my seat at a good height but why do I see some owner operators with there seat all the way down and what's the point for a custom gear shifter that two feet higher than your head driveing like that cannot be comfortable and how can you see the road?
I've always wondered this. Like, do they just separate the loads in other trailer or have different loads for different trailers for different location or all the load in one destination?
When you have a corrupt, incompetent, Venezuela-style socialist regime in power, I guess you can expect Venezuela-style shortages and supply chain breakdowns.
The diesel shortages cropping up at around a dozen truck stops in Ohio and the Southwest have set back truckers during an unprecedented supply chain crisis, but the root causes remain something of a mystery, even to those in the fuel-hauling industry.
John Henderson, who owns Nemo Freight LLC, a Midwest small fleet fuel hauler, said his business has no problem sourcing diesel fuel in the region, and that while sometimes finding available drivers isn't easy, he doubts a so-called "driver shortage" would cause such trouble for the big chain truck stops.
Company driver, really want to break off onto my own and see if I can bring my career to a new level. These lease programs I see on different companies websites all look good and manageable and make it really easy for you to step in, but whenever I google them all I see is negative reviews… literally for every company. Are there any good ones out there you would suggest? Thank you.
I ghosted on an owner operator a week ago.
I answered an ad on Craigslist for a CDL driver. The effer told me I would be making 1500 a week on a dedicated route. Work four days and off for three. For the first two weeks we ended up teaming so we could get the route and rhythm down and he paid me 250 per trip (roughly 20 hours of work) which I assumed was training pay. He would always delay on the pay though, and I had to call him to remind him.
"I'll pay you as soon as we get back home"
(We get home and a day passes)
"Hey can you transfer the money now? I need to pay some bills."
The mfer would just "like" the message and not actually respond
He had a terrible habit of not communicating departure times and other key logistical changes. He had tried to get me to do a back to back trip (illegal), but I said no, and told him I would see him after 24 hrs. And he just kinda grunted. I showed up at his house the next day expecting to work and the fucker was asleep and didn't respond until hours later.
The final straw was last week. I confirmed with him to be at his house at x-time and ready to make the trip up to N. Carolina. I show up 15 mns early and notice one of his cars is not in the lot. I call; no answer. When he finally responded to text, it went like this.
"hey, are you home?"
"No. Getting another truck repaired Can you make the run solo?"
"I cannot."
"I need someone who can I'm extremely busy covering other aspects of the business. It's xxx and back no xxx. "
...
I just drive back home and never said another word to the SOB. It's not that I couldn't have, but I had already noticed early on, that he had a tendency not to communicate crucial logistical information until the last minute and that he was slow with the money which really wasn't that good anyways.
For all, I know, there could've been problems with the other truck that he wasn't communicating, and I could potentially have gotten popped by DOT or run into some other logistical issue which he might have failed to communicate. Nah, eff that.
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Enel Green Power starts construction of its first renewables + storage project in North America
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- Enel Green Power has started construction of the Lily solar + storage project in Texas, its first utility-scale solar + storage project in North America
- The Lily solar + storage project comprises a 146 MWac photovoltaic (PV) facility paired with a 50 MWac battery and is expected to be operational by summer 2021
- In addition, the company plans to install 1 GW of battery storage capacity for future utility-scale installation across the company’s renewable portfolio in the United States through 2022
Rome, Boston, July 21st, 2020 – Enel Green Power started construction of the Lily solar + storage project, its first hybrid project in North America that integrates a renewable energy plant with utility-scale battery storage. By pairing the two technologies, Enel can store energy generated by the renewable plants to be delivered when needed, such as to
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