An offer I couldn't refuse

“One day....all this will be yours..

Well i'm working for the family business, with the goal to take over it within the year. Adding 3-4 more trucks this month with my comping on. So, i'm back home, in rural south alabama. Be buying or building a house on some pretty land here soon.

Florala, al can now be a TT stop off for roadtrips further into FL, or into the Conecuh”

“Congrats Opie! That sounds pretty cool, best of luck to you. :-)”

“What, the curtains?”

“Hey Opie, good to hear from ya.”

“okay okay, I should have congratulated you first, then tried a joke.

Congratulations on getting the family biz! Congrats also on the house thing!”

“Very cool OPIE.
Big responsibility when you are the BOSS and have to meet that payroll each week.
What kind of business? I know it has something to do with trucks. Ha Ha.
New house, new company, Mrs OPIE?”

“Opie the trucking baron.

That works.
Go get 'em.”

“Can you send a couple of rigs to Montana to move me to St. George, Ut.

Cogratulations Opie”

“Go Opie! Put that larnin' to use!”

“Right now we have 2 trucks we own, and have 6 other trucks leased to us. We have found that lease agreements are the best way to go...no overhead, and we get 25% of what the load pays. We also have an on-site 2 bay shop that we operate.

What I'm responsible for is keeping my trucks loaded, billing customers, and all the other paperwork. Putting out fires is what I do most of the time.

If I gotta do something, dad sits in the whole day, if he needs off i sit in and do it all. Now that i'm warmed up and comfortable i'm bringing 3 additional lease trucks online.

I just upgraded the office computer systems and have 3 comps running xp on a network connected to the internet via satellite.

A job you can do in your pj's and watch tv or play on the inet..gotta love it..thanks for all that tried helping me find something!”

“Congrats Opie..... are your folks teamsters out there, or have you avoided the dreaded union incursion?

Pay them and treat the well, and you won't need to worry about it.

Best of Luck Mr. Prez.

BB”

“That's wonderful Opie! How great to have such an oportunity and to make the most of it. Congratulations and good luck getting the house/land you want.”

“buddah...under 15 employees we don't get hit with alot of stuff, and these guys are individual owner/operators, and small outfits”

“Wow! Congratulations, Opie!”

“Congrats OPIE...I hope you'll still have spare time to go backpacking. Owning a business takes up a lot of energy and time.”

“Since you're the boss, you can take off anytime to go backpacking, right. Not. But when you can get off to go backpacking, you afford the most expensive equipment.

Is Miss Opie following you? If you are going to be tied down at work, and building a house, might as well hitch another knot.”

“Congrats Opie. When can we expect to see trailers bearing the OPIE-LINES brand on their sides?”

“Congrats to you and the family business Mr. Opie!”

“What you all haulin' most of the time?

Do any big rig brokering? Any OTR or just local?”

“we work through brokers...we are all over-the-road. Contract Flatbed carrier. 48 foot air ride flatbeds”

“what r u shipping? Mexicans? Pot? coolmax mummyliners?”

“He's shipping Vivid videos and Kleenex brand tissue.

Congrats OPIE.”

“dayhiker...vivid porns are pretty good...you have good taste..i'll have to comment on this fact to your wife!

Buddha...hmm an example from today
Lumber, steel bridge pillings, cable, used brick, trailer axels, sheetrock. As long as it pays over a dollar a mile, and only has one pickup and stopoff we'll do it”

“You didn't just send a couple fo trucks through Wyoming did you? I met a guy at the bar, um coffee shop last night who was here to pick up a load of sheet rock.”