Company Driver VS Owner Operator 

People say it’s a very lonely life being a truck driver, I’m 19 & want to become a truck driver, I have some experience driving a tow truck

@@martinez0356 if you hire on at a company that allows husband and wife teams it is not so lonely or buy you a truck and get your spouse and get rolling worked for a lot of us

@@martinez0356 go local then

@@jeffrobinson6597 Tough to immediately go local unless driving a box truck doing parcel transport or so, w/o some time put in OTR or at least dedicated route, unless you have $ and the right connections..

​@@jeffrobinson6597 local companies make you work 14 to 16 hour shifts so it's just driving to and from work and sleeping. You get two days off and that's really the only time you'll have to be around friends and family

Good point bro

Yeah, that seems pretty obvious.. idk anyone who's looking to get into the industry that has the $ stacked to immediately become an owner operator anyhow.. anyone I know that does have the $ to start as an OO, are just owners.. rarely operators now.. :/

@@ryanr9792 I have the money to become a owner operator, I don’t know a damn thing about the field except for RU-vid videos. I’m getting my class A at the moment, and will be hauling fuel. The plan is to work until I pay it off and then hire someone to do it for me. Thoughts?

@@noahnavarro6155 I couldn't describe the American Dream any better! Lol. Good for you brother

I'm a brand new driver (literally getting my first miles tomorrow! I'm excited!) and having been an engineer before this, I definitely learned a few things. Aside from that college is worthless these days. D E F I N I T E L Y do not invest something that big ($250,000 for a brand new truck) until you've been in long enough to know if you love it or not. Plus, as a new driver, you are going to make mistakes period. It is best to make those mistakes in a company truck rather than your own where you'll be down dozens in repairs.

​@@ryanr9792 what about if im getting my cdl right now at 19 and getting my truck to work under my dad as a owner operator, he has a great broker and dispatcher so I dont have to worry about that, thoughts?

This is exactly the advice I would give as well. Perhaps even more than 2 years, and experiment with a couple different companies or divisions (maybe you'll love flatbed, reefer, car hauler, maybe you won't) before pulling any kind of trigger on O/O.

Solid advice brother

2 years is nothing

Hey

Thanks Ryan.

If you dont mind me asking, how much do you make working for a company

@@shifatahmed4778 I work for a Union company & I make $44/hr or $1.05 per mile when I am mileage.

But u missing on the big $ an employee can never be on the same level as a ceo

@@banialy4852 not everything is about the money. I don't have the lust for power nor the urge to run a major company & have to babysit grown adults. I ran my own company years ago & even on a small scale with only me & 2 employees, I realized it was not something I had any desire to do. I make decent money with full benefits & a pension to show up and drive. My only responsibility is to drive safe & let my company know about any delays. I am happy in my life & that is what matters most.

that turn u on huh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@@3kpapii too late

Because he has extra time and moooney to spend on a gym. We owner operators too busy crawling around our rig trying to fix stuff

@@vitalekg facts my boy 😂 done put on 30lbs from when I was a company guy to being a owner operator . Trading your health for a pay check . Damn shame . Wouldn’t have it any other way tho

Look up OTR reset tool, it will help force regen and clear the code when in derate mode, it just happened to me 2 months ago, hope it help.

Get your particulate filter cleaned. Take it to a dealership that has a oven designed to cook the soot down. These ovens get a lot hotter than the truck can get it. Soot level's in a particulate filter can't be above 30%. This is type of cleaning is recommended every 200k miles. Just Truckin is a great channel for engine advice, he rebuilt his engine himself

would starting with a dually pick up truck be different for expenses ? i know semis are expensive considering they are bigger etc.

@@Venceslandscaping yes it is less to get into hot shot however “most” times the rates are lower as well.

@@burt714 yes the real money in hot shotting or should i say the only good way to make money in hotshotting is with parcels and you'll waste so much time trying to track these down and waste time planning your route's to efficienlty deliver every tiny little parcel that at the end of the day it's just easier to own a big rig and far more comftorable. Also Dot love's to pick on hotshotters. they have a quota of inspections they have to meet everyday and it's a lot easier to inspect a hot shotter than it is a big rig. so you'll be getting pulled into the scale houses a lot more.

If you don’t mind me asking what companies would you recommend starting with?

Hey

It's called working out 🤣. This dude knows how to make the most of his down time.

Where does he find the time ?

@@longshankdrills8799 And for his age that’s hard and drives trucks.

@@joesmo113 I'm 53 (6'1" 205) and still workout 4 days a week. I'm thinking about going into truck driving, but not being able to lift regularly is kind of a deterrent. 🤔

@@longshankdrills8799 Truck driving is a rough gig especially starting out that’s where I got completely out of shape running hard for peanuts with the maga carriers,sleeping pattern out the window, eating habits went out the window too, Driving hard to make a half decent check and that wasn’t on a consistent basis. Truck driving is not a bad gig if you’re retired from another job where you have income coming in but if this is your main source of income good luck on trying to stay in shape. For most of us truck driving and staying in shape is like oil and water but I’m going to speak for myself a guy who took pride in staying in shape and Healthy somewhat. Unfortunately the wages for truck drivers are crap too me. Well if you make that move Good Luck Brother to you stay out of the truck stops eating that food watch what you eat this is easier said than done. You can do it just going to take some more effort on your part after 600 miles a day at 64 miles per hour 😁😆😂😐😐😐

Who do you work for? 120k daaamn

Good stuff. If you are looking for a dispatcher, i can help you out. Let me know if you're interested!

Hauling a bomb, no thanks. All it takes is one nut with a .50 calibre to turn to dust.

Thank you for the positive feedback Fred!! Really appreciate it!

Don't get to keep everything you bring in.

@Alfred Galan yes I know that. But you still bring in alot more than a company driver.

@@danelicker317 ok, what does a local driver make? How much do you get paid? I don't mean before expenses, I mean after expenses and putting away for expenses, how much is your take home for a 7 day a week job and driving through the holiday? Why do many company driver's tell me they used to owner operate? Why have I over the years going back to the 90's had owner operators tell me they are looking for a good company to work for? Local; home EVERY day, home cooked meals, a stable relationship, and time to work out like the guy in this video. Life or death so to speak. If you are with the right local outfit you can make good money. Company: you have a $1,000 medical expense, company pays $250 and you pay a small fee to nothing but a co-pay. Owner of business: pay up in full. Just saying. But if you are driving for yourself, do what you do. Business: you can succeed well, you can get by, or you can go under. This is life, not everyone has the same fortune or blessings.

@Alfred Galan as a local driver, I make $24 an hour, and my weekly hours vary. But an average weekly paycheck for me is anywhere from $800 to $1100. I spoke with a lease driver for my company, and he told me that after all expenses, he brings home around $2400 a week.

@@danelicker317 yeah these are just examples, depending ones location P&D pays the low $30's hr. At top pay, starting $25-$26 hr. Line haul can be over $100,000 yearly local can be $60,000 - 85,000 depending on hours invested, could be a bit more.

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Exactly. I would like to do dedicated runs that maximizes my miles, it is not just luck finding that opportunity, but good fortune certainly is a factor!

Join company for at least 3years, learn the finance & best roots. It will also help you to choose best fuel economy & reliable truck. You are lucky that you are unmarried & 24y & don’t have much responsibilities, so stop wasting your time and join a company as driver & get financially independence by 30years Old. Young business man Best of luck

You are away behind 30 years wow

Good plan it’s takes time to learn this industry 40 years in the business and I’m still learning

Chosed to be…..

Elaborate

I agree 4-5k a week local & if you want to just stay home hire a driver. Owner operator all the way.

@@bbtrucking1616 i have a question, what category does the F-650 fall under? can you make the same or decent amount of money with that?

@@TheGamingChad. That’d be hotshot stuff. A lot of people make it real good with that.

The 20k oil changes can be less costly if you do it yourself. I'd heard as much as 30k miles, others do 15k because of how their truck is used. It might be good to have the oil chemically tested a few times and see.

Might aswell be a shop mecanic at that point, makes tons more than O/O once you start your own business and you'll be home every night. 💯

Ppl and their AI trucks 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Yeah those are definitely going to hurt the market in the next year. De fi ni te ly 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

You are not making what you should be making then. Unless you made a lot OTR you should be making almost twice as much ltl.

@@Bendigo1 was team driving. I work less hours now and make about the same. Not driving for 10.5hrs a night. I do 9hrs n go home

@@kunu98 Oh ok, that makes sense.

@@Bendigo1 was late when I wrote the original comment lol. It’s nice to get hourly mixed with milage pay and task

I do not think it will ever happen. History proved that trading with other countries is way much better than producing everything localy. Look at North Korea vs South Korea. One wanted to produce everything localy and the other one adopted trading with other countries selling to them products they were efficient making and buying from them what they cannot do at a better cost. Even if the gap between rich and poor is growing, before capitalism and international trading this gap was even bigger. It is sad there still a lot of poverty, but back then many would have simply died of hunger. Now, at least, there are shelters offering food and help.

True that, learning how to be your own boss is like granting yourself wings!

Kind of a good idea, I see what you're getting at there. But if they don't have the integrity to take care of the equipment on their own merits, they won't make it 6 months as an owner, maybe that's a good thing tho. Another thing to point out is most people get into the business solely for the money. If they had to pay for the repairs, they wouldn't, they'd just drive until they killed someone or got an oos violation. Way too many hook and book drivers out there sitting in the cab watching RU-vid scoring their pretrip time.

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would starting with a dually pick up truck be different for expenses ? i know semis are expensive considering they are bigger etc.

@@Venceslandscaping if I was you just take time being a company driver to learn the in outs dos donts etc. costs vary easily vary by where you go. Lots of people fail thinking they know what they’re doing when in reality they don’t have a clue.