Pamela Mason
S. Bennett
WRT 101
October 17, 2007
CRN 11687
Attention Potential Owner-Operators
Hastily buying a truck and thinking you are going to simply find work to keep that truck running everyday, is unrealistic. One has to be educated and have an efficient understanding about what one needs to know, to keep a trucking business working. Brian Brombauch and Jj Howe are two different types of owner operators in the business of trucking. Brian Brombauch is an over-the-road driver. Jj Howe is a local owner operator in the construction business in Tucson, Arizona.
First and foremost, one has to land a job for that truck. There are a couple ways to do this. One can choose to lease the truck to a company to work under or one must "hustle up" work for the truck. When the truck is leased to a company, the company charges a percentage for brokering the work (companies decide how these terms are written up individually). Perhaps the trucker's business is just getting started and doesn't have its own trailer yet; usually a trailer can be rented for a fee. This is a common practice for many of the trucks running down the highway.
Brian Brombauch is currently running as an Owner-Operator, making a $2,000.00 dollar a month payment on a truck he is buying from Martin Company. He says, "The Company keeps me very busy running 2,500 ? 3,000 miles a week. I earn approximately $10,000 dollars a month, but after all of my business expenses: fuel, tires, repairs, truck payment, and insurance and stuff; I only take home about $2,000-$4,000 dollars a month." Considering the hours he works in a day/night and that oftentimes the driving conditions are treacherous and dangerous, he can testify about how little that amount of mone ...