EMPLOYMENT:
A note from Don Olson on our Owner Operator Position:
Fortune Transportation historically has had 75% company trucks and 25% owner operators. When I first started the company I did not have the money to finance other people, I was working on financing Fortune and getting it going, so I paid my owner operators a percentage and they did not get paid until I got paid. They did and still do make more money than the average owner operator on the road; but they are worth it!
We have expanded our company truck base the last couple years, but have not increased our owner operator base. Former company drivers own two-thirds of our present owner operator trucks. I believe the only O-O we lost last year sold his truck and took a local job; don’t know that any left the year before. We haven’t advertised for owner operators except by word of mouth for a long while.
2004 was an interesting year. High fuel cost, increasing health care and liability insurance costs, and higher equipment costs. 2004 also had the most opportunity I have seen since the early 1980’s. This said we are looking for true owner operators. What we mean is we want people who run their trucks like a business. We want operators who work to control their costs, operators who want to improve profitability, and operators who can balance these difficult business decisions and still want a life outside of the truck.
Fortune will work with you if you have what it takes. We are this business for the long haul; specifically we see opportunity for all of us to create a solid base of equity in the next couple years. Give me a call, Don Olson.
Reach me at don@fortunetransportation.com. Our mailing address is P.O. Box 399, Windom, MN 56101. 800-999-6188 or 507-920-6935 (personal cell) Donavan J. Olson - owner
Major origins are New Ulm, Marshall, Round Lake, Waseca, Minnesota
Wisconsin origins are most of eastern and north central Wisconsin
Salina, Kansas
Florence, Kentucky
Carthage, Missouri
Dallas, Texas
Spartanburg, NC
West Texas and eastern New Mexico
Compare your 1099 from where you worked to our owner operators
|
Our 2004 O/O’s averaged |
High |
Low |
Line haul |
= $132,955.47 |
$151,369.73 |
$100,412.16 |
Drops & unloading |
= $5,013.29 |
$6,404.49 |
$1,155.00 |
Fuel S/C |
= $12,063.34 |
$14,964.28 |
$8,976.34 |
Gross to tractor |
= $145,018.81 |
$172,738.50 |
$110,543.50 |
Total miles |
= |
150,706 |
98,119 |
$/mile to tractor |
= $1.17 |
$1.17 |
$1.13 |
800-999-6188
Ask for Don or Pete
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