Oh, the irony, the irony.
You come here with a load of self-proclaimed experience, then ask the most uber newbie questions, and when someone notes the paradox you then take a most exalted high and mighty attitudinal perch in order to ridicule and belittle those
beneath you.
Yeah, well, we know what our CPM is. So there.
Please point us to where we proclaimed such experience, we have run our azzes off to the point of not stopping for close to
2 1/2 years, the first 13 months as company drivers, then we bought our truck in January '07, after 260,000 miles later putting many miles on our truck and us, we just recently stopped to take time to investigate our options in the trucking industry.
Yes we have run as many miles in as short of a time as most, for that very reason we were hoping to get some information about how we can better our trucking careers as we continue our education process on revenues and profit margins.
No one has held our hand, in fact we are totally free and clear of any committments to any company, no escrow, no financial obligations other than to our bank and our insurance, we are rookies straight out of a 30 year traveling musician world and we have done pretty well at this yes, that backround set us up to continue our road gypsy lifestyle in trucking as we practice saftey, and continue to learn from others more experienced, we have come a long way in a relativley short time, but we have not proclaimed anything of the sort that you refer to, we know we have a lot to learn, and by god we are gonna do just that.
FACTS ARE FRIENDLY!!!!
There are expenses that our old company paid, plates, tolls, prepass+, only $25 month qualcomm, no escrow, good layover pay, really great bcbs health insurance, since these things were provided at no cost wouldn't ya think we need to know what difference that will make in our operating costs? We did not get reciepts, or totals for those things we never had to pay for so since expediting will make us responsible for those costs, would it not be a good idea to find out details first, or just join up and find out later.
All we have been trying to do is continue our learning curve, many of the recent questions we have asked have been met with many of you telling us to stick it instead of answering politely, what do you expect our response to be, just rollover and take it...that ain't what we are about, we are not gonna be deterred or bullied and we will stand up for ourselves.
For example, we asked what a tractor in this business might spend a year on the things like tolls, prepass+, etc., those things that one of you say werner is holding our hands on, we made the best of that situation, ended up with a great truck so if your bad rapping a certain company because you drove for them and you have knowledge of such, OK, but to bad rap a company with no personal knowledge is FOOLISH!.....If what you refer to is true then holding our hand in that regard means we have not been paying for costs that have meant financial progress for our trucking biz.
We apologize for any time we wasted in many of you telling us to go away...we will do you a favor and do just that. Somewhere someone will continue to lend us the great advice and knowledge we have generally found here, it's been exciting and fun until recently. But we say UNCLE, there is no competing with so many of you that have decided to gang up on us by spending time on 1 post to give each other hi fives, BRAVO and way to go tell em, then a big pat on the back for sticking up for me because I told 'em to stick it, or hey that's telling em man, mang am I proud of you for watching my back and ripping these guys.
Thanks to many of you for your help, and the rest of you that know everything about everyone I hope you don't continue sending new prospective expediters away from this forum.
We think this forum is really a great place to learn about the intricacies of expediting!
With that said, we won't be bothering anyone again with our ridiculous questions and dreams of being successful in the business of expedited trucking.
Be Safe out there and BE HAPPY!
