arkjarhead
Veteran Expediter
Yesterday one of my professors set up a scenario were someone was an O/O, although he called them a truck driver that owns their own truck. I thought it was totally wrong and I called him on it. Here is the scenario.
Leased to J.B. Hunt Transportation
Pay= 3.00 per mile
Miles per Year= 220,000 (solo)
Home every weekend.
Bills= 2.25 per mile (he didn't elaborate and say if this was just business or both business and personal)
Interest rate on truck= 7%
My first argument was J.B. isn't paying an O/Os 3 bucks a mile. Secondly I told him a solo wasn't going to turn 220,000 miles per year. A team could if they ran hard all year, but I doubt they would be home every weekend. That's where the argument began. He felt like a solo could easily run 220,000 miles per year. I brought up the FMCSA and he looked at me like I was stupid. Then he began to throw around his Phd and say he has "studied and analyzed" the transportation industry.He has no real world work experience to speak of. I just showed him my Class A CDL and he began to stutter. He asked me why I felt a solo couldn't run 220,000 miles per year. I told him because it wasn't legal to do so. That would be a little over 4,000 miles a week. I've found it hard to get much past 3,000 miles per week and stay legal. He said there were no such regulations. It took all I had not to blurt out "If you have actually researched and analyzed the trucking industry you would know there are". So he told me if I could bring him proof of these "so called regulations" he would give me 50 bonus points added on to my grade at the end of the semester. I hope he is ready to give out some bonus points.
He has all these 18 and 19 year old boys in the class counting down the days until they are old enough to go lease on to J.B. so they can make 6 figures a year being their own boss, doing what they want, and be home each and every weekend. I feel sorry for them if they follow his suggestion. I think they will be very upset with him.
Leased to J.B. Hunt Transportation
Pay= 3.00 per mile
Miles per Year= 220,000 (solo)
Home every weekend.
Bills= 2.25 per mile (he didn't elaborate and say if this was just business or both business and personal)
Interest rate on truck= 7%
My first argument was J.B. isn't paying an O/Os 3 bucks a mile. Secondly I told him a solo wasn't going to turn 220,000 miles per year. A team could if they ran hard all year, but I doubt they would be home every weekend. That's where the argument began. He felt like a solo could easily run 220,000 miles per year. I brought up the FMCSA and he looked at me like I was stupid. Then he began to throw around his Phd and say he has "studied and analyzed" the transportation industry.He has no real world work experience to speak of. I just showed him my Class A CDL and he began to stutter. He asked me why I felt a solo couldn't run 220,000 miles per year. I told him because it wasn't legal to do so. That would be a little over 4,000 miles a week. I've found it hard to get much past 3,000 miles per week and stay legal. He said there were no such regulations. It took all I had not to blurt out "If you have actually researched and analyzed the trucking industry you would know there are". So he told me if I could bring him proof of these "so called regulations" he would give me 50 bonus points added on to my grade at the end of the semester. I hope he is ready to give out some bonus points.
He has all these 18 and 19 year old boys in the class counting down the days until they are old enough to go lease on to J.B. so they can make 6 figures a year being their own boss, doing what they want, and be home each and every weekend. I feel sorry for them if they follow his suggestion. I think they will be very upset with him.
