Motor Carrier Certificate Is Now In-Hand

I now have everything I need to get on with business. The omnipotent Certificate of Authority came in the mail this weekend. So everything is now in order, at least for me, to book any load I want.

My next step is to find another owner or operator or two; someone who owns their own truck and holds a Commercial Drivers License with an "A" endorsement. This could be a pick-up truck IF it has a diesel motor and has a tow package installed, including either a 5th wheel or goose neck hitch. The perfect truck would be a flatbed - either 12 or 14' long - and setup with a pocket goose neck.

Is there anybody out there?

I am waiting to hear back from my insurance agent exactly how I add drivers on to my company. Hopefully this gets done early next week so I can get on with what I need to do and grow my business.

I don't usually believe in coincidence, but I have no other explanation. Just before the 4th of July weekend, I had the best single day financially I have ever had as a driver. I came within $30 of matching that last Friday! And try as I might, neither one was related to my getting my own Authority. I'd like to think our economy is indeed improving.

Friday started with delivering some construction equipment here locally and my week looked to be done by noon. About mid-afternoon I got a phone call asking if we could take 1 pallet weighing 360 lbs from a truck line terminal downtown STL up to a job site near Hannible, MO 180 miles away. They wanted it delivered Monday morning. I already have another job set for Monday morning so I did it that afternoon. Delivered by 7:00 pm.

The rest of my weekend has been uneventful. I did get up to the Maryville Fireman's Picnic Saturday night, always a fun time. But I was home in bed before 11. Such a good boy!

Unfortunately my trip back to CA is not going to happen this month as hoped. I just have to much unfinished business here to address. And, as I mentioned before, my main reason to go was to visit a sister I haven't seen in a very long time. But seeing her in Boston, where she lives, would be 500 miles closer than going to LA where she will be staying. There are just a lot of little things that point to this not being the time to go back to CA.

Instead I will be going to FL with my youngest son. I will swing down to AR and pick him up and then go visit my parents near Savannah, GA before going down to Paradise for 10 days or so. But first I need to find another truck or two to add to my fleet.