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Posted by Hoofer B on April 12, 2015 at 05:48:13 from (64.246.252.74):

My Dad passed away five years ago, so I will ask here for advice. I trimmed cow hooves for 16 years and now have two guys running that business for me. While trimming I had 6 semis hauling liquid manure seasonally. I switched to OTR trucking 4 1/2 years ago. I am currently at 23 trucks and 30 trailers.
I have a three bay shop near my house with a small office. I have an Operations manager, a dispatcher, and a lady who does billing. They pretty much all work out of their home. It works. I own half of the trucks ( all paid for ) and lease the other half. My conditional use permit at my facility allows 7 semis and 7 trailers at the location at any given time. Half of my drivers live out of the area and keep the truck with them. I have trailers dropped at several of our customers. Weekends get crowded at the yard because most of the local drivers are home. At this point I park 3 trailers at another local business. With a bit of excavating, I could park more trailers at this place. A facility came up for sale three miles from our place. It has a four bay shop, three large offices, employee room, shower, parts storage 60 X 100 warehouse, 120,000 fuel storage ( They use to make biodiesel ),large fenced in lot for a bunch of trailer. So, at 45 years of age, do I buy it, or do I find elsewhere to park equipment on the weekends? I can swing it, but just hate the debt The wife says go for it. I would keep my current shop as well.


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