{"id":17395,"date":"2024-12-23T05:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/buying-a-trucking-company-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T05:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T05:58:28","slug":"buying-a-trucking-company-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/buying-a-trucking-company-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a trucking company | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tIf you cannot drive the one existing truck yourself, do not do this.<\/p>\n<p>Unless that&#8217;s a trucking company that has a lot of sales people working for it and they have a lot of freight that&#8217;s their own freight, run for your life.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called business that you are buying, unless they have a lot of contracts with their own Freight, is worth exactly what that one truck is worth and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>No offense to any of them, and no offense to you, but if you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re looking at you&#8217;ll do just like any other guy that buys a truck and spends 20 grand on it and ends up spending  another $20 or $30,000 on top of that because you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re looking at. And people tend to sell businesses that are overloaded with debt and trucks that are junk just to get rid of them and give it to somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>There are 20,000 ways this can go wrong for you and almost no ways it can go right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this person is telling you oh it&#8217;s 10 years the authority has been aged you&#8217;re not going to have any problems..<\/p>\n<p>That Authority is meaningless and worthless.<\/p>\n<p>For $350 you can go file your own.<\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t know it, people that are in this industry that buy a truck have a 95% failure rate.<\/p>\n<p>Those that are not in this business that attempt to go into it as owners and investors watching their money grow, 99.9% of the time they lose 100% of their money.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll do better taking your money and going to the casino and rolling a couple hands of craps and maybe you&#8217;ll win.<\/p>\n<p>But for sure you will have much much much much better odds.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/buying-a-trucking-company.2518077\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you cannot drive the one existing truck yourself, do not do this. 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