I can across a guy and he wants to partner with me. He has a sprinter and he drives it with some small company. He want me to do the business side of thing and start a new fleet. Can anyone help me with this, what should I Do, Is this a good idea. All he wants to do is drive. Are ther any national companies that will take on new fleet owner.
Help new fleet owner
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Are you running a truck of your own??
bubblehead
Veteran Expediter
Check more into the company you plan to build your fleet with first. Ask questions like how many of the company employees/dispatchers have relatives with trucks running with them and if the company caters to any particular fleet owner. We didn't and later found out that many of the drivers/fleet owners are related to management and dispatchers...kinda hard to compete against kinfolk especially durring lean times.
Do you really think it's a good idea to start a transportation business while the economy is in the process of taking a major dump? And, you don't even know anything about the transportation business? I think I'd hold off for a while.
Asking questions like "What should I do?" and "Is this a good idea?" isn't going to get you the answers you want - personally, I'd say "Run" and "No" because there isn't enough information to even begin to answer intelligently.
When you don't know which questions to ask, you're nowhere near ready to jump in. It looks like you don't even know what you don't know yet.
When you don't know which questions to ask, you're nowhere near ready to jump in. It looks like you don't even know what you don't know yet.
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Check more into the company you plan to build your fleet with first. Ask questions like how many of the company employees/dispatchers have relatives with trucks running with them and if the company caters to any particular fleet owner. We didn't and later found out that many of the drivers/fleet owners are related to management and dispatchers...kinda hard to compete against kinfolk especially durring lean times.
How many trucks did this company have? Reason I ask is there are only so many trucks you can fit in <insert small town>. Any smart company owner who hires family knows it's probably easier to please family; so it's smarter to keep his non-family trucks rollin. Of course, this isn't always the case. Personally, I wouldn't like signing on trucks that have more decal residue on it than paint. But if they would have any complaints of favoritism with me, I'd just point to the computer and say "You're seein what I'm seein."
I see your point, tho. Families are funny things. They can be all selfishly greedy together, or they can help everyone succeed, and share in the greed. At the end of the day, if everyone's done their job, they should be happy with their chunk of the pie.
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Amazing how fast you can get your degree at Hard Knocks University. But I hear the doctorate program is a biotch!
yepper. Kinda like going from a trooper to really super trooper. It's amazing how you view things depending on what hat you are wearing that day. I certainly would enjoy watching more folks negotiating the "real" roast goose hunt and observing their evolution.