can any trucker out there help me with  a little info?
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This question belongs in Cars & Transportation --> Safety\n\nBut perhaps this site can help you:\nhttp://www.thetruckersreport.com/truck_facts.shtml
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Are you looking to be a broker?  Or do you have a truck and trailer available for hire?\n\nNext Question:\n\nDo you want to run locally or over the road?  Do you have a trailer? If so what kind?  \n\nMost over the road companys, Mercer, Decker, Hummer, Systems, England,  etc. pay a percentage of the total load plus fuel surcharge, tarp fee, etc. to Owner Operators.  For example the load pays $1.50 per mile ( you would get a % of this) plus .XX per mile fuel surchage.\n\nI hope this helps a little bit.
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Try the following websites.  One is all of the IRS publications -- everything you need to know *should* be there.\n\nThe next site is from Jackson Hewitt, with a list of common deductions for truck drivers.  This should help get you started.\n\nThe last is from a trucking website.\n\nI hope this helps, I have two brothers who drive trucks...
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Dispatch for what type of transportation? You talk about pizza delivery, and for that I can not help you. You also talk about a broker and owner operators, which is heavy haul trucking. For this you will need your DOT authority. You can not "just dispatch", you will need to operate under your own, or another person or company's authority. If you want your own operating authority, there are many services that will help you get this for a reasonable fee. You will still need the money to pay the owner operators, advances for fuel, insurance ($750,000 to $1,500,000, depending on what type of operation you will run) and various other things. You REALLY need to know the business before you jump in. It has a very high failure rate for several reasons. 1. Under capitalized 2. This business is full of individuals that do not operate ethically. If you are not careful, your money will be gone, and they will still be operating, with someone else they can take advantage of.
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Of course. Trucking jobs are one of those types of jobs that don't really have a retirement age. As long as you can prove you are a good driver, you can drive a truck.
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A freight agent.   You go to a school which can be expensive and you most likely have to travel to go to it, but well worth it, about $1,000 - $2,000, and it is only for seven days.  Anyway, you get a job with a trucking company and route their trucks all over the place.  You do it from your home phone and computer and get a commission off every truck load you route along with a wage.  Some of these places give benefits.   The trucking company can be located anywhere in the US and you still work from your own home no matter where you are.  The average income for an agent is between $20,000 for part time to $80,000 full time.  Then after a couple years, you can become a broker and work for yourself doing the same thing, but the middleman is cut out.  you have the potential to make over $200,000 then.   \n\nThats what I do and it is a great living.  If I have something to do that day, I don't answer the phone.   The trucker gets routed to another agent somewhere else.   If I need the money, I answer every call I can and tell the company I am available so please load me up.   I highly recommend it to any at home mother or single mother.
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Look into a company called 2 Men and a Truck.  We have used them to get to at least 2 states that I can think of off hand and they do a wonderful job and have always been at least $30 - $40 dollars cheaper than the everyone else.
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1)  The number of people it takes to operate it (dispatchers, repair, EMS, etc etc).\n2)  The cost of the truck (about $300,000.00)\n3)  The cost of the gear inside (about a cool million depending on setup).\n4)  Life expectancy of truck (about 3-5 years)\n5)  Number of times that people use it and don't have any money to pay for it.  This means that those that have any money have to pay for the exsistance of this equipment and cover the costs of those that don't (or refuse to).  \n\nRemember:  If you don't have the money they can't say know and it is hard to garnish wellfare.  But if we have a job and/or insurance than it costs us.  Since, we care about our credit we pay were others refuse.
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I've worked with truck brokers, and I didn't know they had to have a license.  (Are you talking about brokering trips on trucks?  If you're talking about an auto dealer's license, you'll find that on your state-sponsored website under their department of commerce section.)\n\nThe biggest bearier to entry for these guys was contact with all the companies they needed to broker services with, a good managment system to keep track of logistics, and then a working relationship with the local manufacturers and wholesalers.
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you can go to the Cal Dmv web sight and the writen tests are there and you can download the book. As for doing the driving test you need to contact one of the truck drivers schools and get a truck
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you can contact some of the trucking companies and they will perhaps hire you but you must have a good work history and pretty much a clean criminal record. some will hire right out of schools ,they will train you then give you your own big truck but let me warn you you want be able to go home as often as you would like.you could have gotten the state in where you leave to pay for your schooling there are programs out there that would have paid for everything,its through the employment office that's how I got my cdl.contact the trucking companies you can pick up a booklet at a truck stop if u live near one. or you can contact driving jobs.com for trucking companies. good luck too yoo
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Get a LAWYER!\nwww.truckerlawyers.com\nwww.interstatetrucker.com\nand http://www.aitaonline.com/page116.html (Transportation Defense Lawyers Network)\n\nLM
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I ride a Gravity.  Independent trucks are the way to go. I'm sure they have their own website you can checkout.
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You can find basic company information in Hoover's business database. I found this information:\n\nSt Johnsbury Trucking Co Inc \n1311 Union St\nWest Springfield, MA 01089-4024\nPhone: 800-332-9571\n\nThey do long-distance trucking, but they do not do local trucking.
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my ex was a trucker for 8 years and he still is... You want a company who treats you like a person and not a truck number.. Trust me on this one....get one that pays by the mile not the load... Also, martin transportaion has a place in canada and the united states. They are a decent company.....Don't ask for paid this or that as they set there pay according to experience and all trucking companies are different. Some pay for empty miles and some dont. You want one that does. Some also pay extra for shorter runs....Those are some quesitons you can ask them when you call them....a good start pay is 33-38 cents per mile....Just the biggest piece of advice i can offer is make sure your treated like a person or else you wont like it and wont stay with them,. Some large companies get so big they only know you for your tractor number.... Good luck to you
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Sounds similar to the trucks U-Haul was renting before they switched back to an all-gasoline powered fleet...  The last time I used one of their diesel trucks, I got around 8 MPG on the highway with a fully loaded truck.
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Try www.craigslist.org and select your city then search under auto/car/ truck section. THis is a site of free classified ads you can place a free wanted ad also.