Time to get back to updating these blog posts :)

Hey all! Well it took me a bit to figure out how to regain access to my blogger account. It kept wanting to have me log in with one email account and when I did, it showed no blog. I thought I lost everything! However when I went to my blog url, it still came up. Baffled me for a bit because I didn't know what the hell was going on!

I tried another email address and had to reset my password but apparently that was it, so I'm back! Not gonna do too long of a blog entry right now, because I just spent like 45 minutes trying to figure out how to get connected to this wifi at this petro I'm parked at in Kenly NC. I even paid $2.00 for an hour on their wifi, but then it still wouldn't load on the browser. Then I found one that said Petro free wifi, I tried that, it wing DING! And connected. Suddenly pages were loading without any delay. I was like "well fuck!"

Could have definitely saved myself an hour. Oh well! Hope everyone is doing well out there! I'm trying to get back in the habit of coming back on my Mac book fairly regularly, and also I'm going to be trying to get an official site up for the business I'm apart of. Well, 2 businesses actually.

One is a business called Heart and Body Naturals. All natural products including cbd oils. The link to sign up for a free account is listed below.

Heart and Body Naturals

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The other business, the one that I believe will actually get me either off the road full time, or at least give me the time and financial freedom to go out for a month on the road, then take a month off at home. That one is a business called the 30 Day Success Formula.

I don't have an official website set up yet, but I'm working on that. My goal is to figure out how I should go about having a cost friendly site that people can visit to get information about the business, and also have the ability to download the PDF so they can see how to get started for themselves.

Right now the business is only available in the USA, but I hear they are working on making it global. All commissions are done in the form of cash payments via packages through UPS, FEDEX, USPS, etc.

If you want more information in the mean time, comment on here with your email address and I'll email you the PDF so you can check it out.

Lots of scams out there sadly. Lots of people that are trying to build their businesses by lying to people. Telling them that they started making big money in days and they can too, when it's just not the right thing to do. The way I do business is, I'll never give people false hope. I'll never tell someone that they're gonna get rich overnight doing a business, or even that they'll make a lot of money in a short amount of time. The amount of money you will make depends solely on the amount of work you put into it.

The great part about the 30 day success formula business is it was set up about 4 or 5 years back as an offline business done solely through the mail. They've only gone online within the past 6 months and have taken off! With this business, I've been in it probably like 5 weeks or so, I've made about $500 so far. I came in at level 2 which is $250 to join, and to upgrade through the levels you only pay the difference. Level 3 is $1000 so I'll just be paying $750 to upgrade but then anyone that joins me at level 3 I'll make $400 per every direct and $200 for every indirect. I'll still make the direct sales on level 2 which is $100, and level 1 which is $30. You always get paid up to the level that you are at. I already had someone join at level 4, which is $2500 with a $1000 direct commission. I made $100 because I'm level 2, and the remaining $900 went up to my sponsor who is actually level 4, and she also made $500 indirect, so instead of $500 she made $1500 from my efforts.

It's all good! I figured coming in near the bottom that I'd lose out on some commission in the beginning, but I have set out to basically put everything back into the business to get me through the levels as quickly as I can. The higher up I go, the more I'll make, the easier its going to be to get to the next level.

The AWESOME part is, I heard recently that my first few directs have had their initial mailers sent out for them already. The company sends out your first 200 mailers for you for free to get you started. Then after that, you have the option to buy more mailers, or do it all yourself.

I could go on and on. However, I gotta get back on the road and complete this trip to Jacksonville. It is so nice tho, to be back on my Mac and logging online again. I've put it off for way too long but I know I have to utilize all resources available to me to get my businesses completely off the ground and running.

So to recap, if you're looking for all natural hemp based cbd products, or looking to build a really good business offering those types of products to others, click the link up above.

If you are looking for a way to do business offline and make some serious cash payments from a company that has been around 4 or 5 years, drop me your email and I'll send over the PDF so you can check out the 30 day success business info. The last page of the PDF shows how you go about getting started with the company. I wish I would have found out about them back when they started. I would probably not have been on the road these past few years!

It's like BitCoin, I only learned about it like 2 years back. If I learned of it back when it first started I'd probably have bought like 1,0000 of them or something and be set up pretty good in my bitcoin wallet now. LOL. Oh well, better late than never.

So anyway y'all, I appreciate you taking the time to read this. If you found value in this post, please feel free to share it.

Have a wonderful rest of your day, and I'll talk to you again soon!

C

looks like I'm possibly going back over the road

So, Im gonna make this short. I'm writing this while buzzed on fireball/dt Dr Pepper, and beer. I've been putting out applications to different trucking carriers with the idea of going back over the road and making better money than I am now. Gotta get money saved and get our businesses going, and I can't do that with our current income. So, hopefully one of the next posts I do will be something about being financially successful and not having to worry about money any more. Can't wait till that day comes. I know it will soon. So anyway, thats all for now, take care y'all!

Almost financed for the business!

Hey all! So, things are slowly moving along. This morning, I took an uber up to Publix to pick up the car from Erin, and then headed down to US Bank. I got the cashiers check for the loan origination fee, and then headed to the post office. Shipped it off overnight scheduled for a 1030 delivery tomorrow morning. Then our loan check will be overnighted to us and we will have it in our hands by 1030 Saturday morning. So, come Saturday, I am looking forward to heading to the bank to deposit our loan check.

Then it's just a matter of waiting for it to clear our account, and then getting things rolling! I can't wait! So close!

woohoo! Finally on MacBook!

Hey everybody! This post is going to be short. I'm finally on a decent computer! My wife and I officially paid off our washer and dryer with Aarons, and we added 2 MacBook air's as new lease to own. So, we went from getting our account down to like $80 per month to then adding 2 $130 per month items to our account. I know I wanted one for when I get my online business started, and I really wanted to get Erin one to help her with her bakery business. She has a lot of photos on a portable drive that she needs to get onto her computer. So, we are both ready to go! Tomorrow we mail off overnight a cashiers check to the bank for the origination fee and then they overnight the business loan check to us. We will have it by 1030 Saturday morning. Since we now already have our computers, all that will be left to do will be to get the business stuff off and rolling. Cant wait! I'm so anxious to start the business stuff and begin receiving the large commission checks. I'm so anxious to give my 2 week notice at my local job and then spend all my time either working on my business or hanging out with my family.

Things are finally coming into place!

So on that note, I have to get going! I have to get over to my daughter's school to pick her up so we can head to the middle school and be ready for our middle child's winter guard performance.

It's funny though. I had figured Id do a go-live video on my business page from my MacBook but for some reason I struggled to figure out what to do. I'm new to Mac. I've always been a PC guy, but have wanted to go Mac for a while. I will never go with apple as far as my phone goes, but computer wise, I'm definitely happy to be on a Mac. It'll be nice to be on a computer that I know will last me a long time.

Anyway y'all, I look forward to being able to come on here and update you all as to how things are going. On that note, take care and talk to you next time!

Sometimes it's time for a change. :)

Sometimes when you've been doing the same thing for a while, it's time to change it up. Recently multiple things have changed. 2 weeks ago, I was notified that heartland was going over all the owner operator contracts. I had a feeling they were going to make a decision to change how we get paid. Sure enough! last weekend we all got the email that we were being switched from making 68% of the load to getting paid mileage instead. I knew right then my time was limited with interstate because I hate mileage as a contractor. You literally have to run your ass off in order to make a modest paycheck. Versus when you make percentage, you can run less miles but still make a good check.

Reluctantly, I went back to the truck on Tuesday, and was gonna head out for the week. I get to the truck, load my stuff in, start up the truck and go park the car. I get back in the truck, and it wasn't airing up my air tanks. And my AC wasn't working. I was like "wtf!!!" I don't have the money to get everything repaired on the truck and keep rolling. So, I decided maybe it's time to change. I was able to get the truck disconnected from the empty trailer and parked near my car. Unloaded my stuff back into the car for the most part (I didn't get everything out of the truck yet, figured I can go back to completely clear it out, plus haven't officially quit from interstate either.)

So what I'm working towards right now is getting the required documents I need so I can add passenger rating onto my license with the idea that maybe I'll apply to be a Nashville bus driver. However, I'm also looking for local daycab positions. My first priority is seeking out opportunities where I can still work and make decent money but be home daily. If I can't find anything that seems good enough, I am willing to stay over the road. I have a few options that I'd go with as a contractor, and at least 1 company I'd go with as a company driver. But if I can do what I do and not have to be away all the time, I'd prefer that. I have missed so many vacations, and I'm tired of it. It's gotten to be too much, my family away on vacation while I'm out in the truck working. My oldest still at home is 16 and my youngest is 9. I don't want to miss any more if I can avoid it.

So, that's what I'm working on right now. Trying to figure things out. Told the wife last night, "sorry I haven't gotten an orientation scheduled for Monday for another over the road opportunity, I'm focusing on trying to see if I can get a local opportunity so that I can be home daily." She seemed to actually be ok with that. Yes she'd like me to work but she'd also like me home if possible. She agreed that maybe this is a good time to look at a change.

Eventually I will get my online business fully rocking but I don't have the money to do what I need to do. I might have to make a plan and put little bits here and there away so that I can invest what I need to invest and then I'll start driving traffic to the products and services and making high commissions on them and then get to a point where I won't have to work a regular job at all. I'd do it right now, but my wife literally said "i'm not saying no forever, I'm just saying no right now."

Then she talked later about how she wishes we could afford _____, and I'm thinking "we could if you would just be willing to let me take a chance and not say no out of fear." That's what the issue is, if you want change you gotta be willing to go after the change. You can't just say "oh, I can't afford it." Or the best one "some day." Some day never comes if you don't take action. I'm wanting to take action, but unless I want a divorce, I have to also work with my wife. Sadly, if I was single I'd probably already be where I want to be financially. Oh well.

So anyway, I'm going to leave on that note for now. Feel free to click the banner up above to get your free book!

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Hope you all have a good one and talk to you again next time!

Coffee Coffee Coffee

Hey all! I'm up here in Pineville North Carolina. Just got put in a dock and am being unloaded. Apparently this load is entirely coffee. Normally when I haul starbucks its a combination of stuff. Usually when I haul an entire load of coffee or sugar i'm at the roasting plant up in PA, which we don't haul out of anymore because Big G Express underbid everyone. So when I saw this load out of the roasting plant in South Carolina, 100 miles paying $300, I was surprised. But, I went ahead and booked it. I'm still gonna be deadheading back towards Tennessee because there's nothing till tomorrow out here and i'm down to like 30 hours on my 70, and if I'm gonna sit around anywhere, I'd much rather do it at home.

And this day off at home will be very interesting. Erin and the girls are on the road headed to PA right now to spend the week visiting the fam up there. I'm doing my duty and staying out working to try to keep working on the paychecks. Too many bils to be paid and sadly it usually seems like I'm the main one trying to figure out how to get them covered. I'm the saver mostly, where as the wife is the free spirit so she wants to be able to do stuff and buy stuff and loves her car but I'm the one going "how are we going to pay for it?"

So that's my stress currently is pretty much the money side of things and wondering how we will do this or how we will do that, and the wife is like "we will figure things out." I'm like "um. ok.. how?" I mean its easy to say "we will figure it out" and then just don't do anything. I can constantly say I'm trying to make things better for us, but then keep doing what I'm doing. Then in a year from now, we will still be where we are now, struggling, not the best marriage, not the best finances, me always away from home, them still freaking taking vacations while I stay out here and work (that's the biggest thing I am spiteful about lately because that's two trips in a row that I couldn't go for.) She went up to Kansas for her birthday, and then now she's going up to pa for her bio mom and grandma's birthdays and yet here again, I'm out here because we cant afford me taking time off. It's the same saying every time. "Obviously we would love to have you there, but we understand that you have to work."

Then I talk to her about how I'm working on building an online business so I can come off the road, be home with them, and stop missing things like this, and its "everything online is a scam, I think you should just stay out there in the truck and keep working on the business you've been out there doing for 6 years and try to make that better.)

Another thing I am not happy about is, no matter what I do out here, how much I make, it's never enough for her. I can make $1000, and she's like "you used to make $2000 a week with Schneider." I could make $1500 or so and it's "why can't you push to make between 2000 and 3000?" I called her out on it saying exactly that no matter how much I make, she always thinks I should be making more, and she's like "well because you used to with Schneider! You're an owner operator so there's no cap on what you can make!"

So at this point, I would say that I'm putting everything I can into getting my online business off the ground, for a few reasons. Obviously to make the money better is one of them, plus time freedom to be with my family, and another reason is to save my marriage. Because, being out here, doing what I'm doing, I cant go on like this, feeling like i'm killing myself doing my job and it's never enough. And then when I make a $900 check and we owe 1800 to rent because we are late and I'm like "we should put as much of that in a money order towards rent", I suggested maybe 650 although 700 or 800 would have made me more comfortable. What did she do? Put 500 in a money order to keep $400 in the account.

So that means we still owe 1300 to rent, and then her car expects a car payment this Friday. $530, which I don't see how it's gonna happen, but when I went to her and said "how will we get both rent, car payment for you, and car insurance covered?" She said "we will figure it out." At this point, I fear her car is going to get repossessed and then she will be yelling at me like it's my fault. I've been, since the beginning when we got her car, like "hey, I told you when we bought the car that I couldn't handle both cars on my own, that I need her help. She said "i'm working overtime almost every week so I think we will be fine." And then she has made no efforts to help with making sure the cars are paid. Honestly I think it'd be better to let her car get repossessed and get her a older car that's paid off and that way she can just drive it around and do like she's doing right now with her current car. It's like "we need to pay the bills!"

Sorry ya'll, I've got so much on my mind and normally I would try to not vent here on my blog but I'm not exactly personally chatting with a ton of people so it's been just building. I do whatever I can to try to de-stress as much as possible so I don't completely either blow, or do something to hurt myself, or end up just snapping and telling her I want a divorce. So ALL of that, is a large part of why I'm working on building an online business because right now I know that (even if she wont admit to it), she wants me to just handle everything and her have the freedom to do whatever she wants. Although I admit I feel like she always just wants more and more, when I get my business to where it'll be, money wont be an issue anymore and so when I'm home and everything is taken care of, sure she can buy what she wants and whatever (within reason of course because if we have say, $100k in the bank I'm not just gonna be like "sure hon go shopping and spend all the money!) I mean we gotta still be frugal with it as much as possible. Get the things we need, get some things that we want, like paid off vehicles, get us into a house instead of an apartment, stuff like that, but not just buy shit all the time. I'm pretty sure that'll be what I'll transition to when we are better off financially will be "do we really need all that?"

So, I admit, it's so nice having another power inverter so I can use my computer out here. Logged on today to send out another marketing email on this account I have where you get 100 leads per day for 1 cent each. So, after 30 days, I'll have 3000 leads, and it'll just keep going from there. I'm curious if i'll actually start seeing income from the affiliate links I'm sending out. Today it went out to 600 leads. The links I'm sending out is me trying to promote services where you sign up for a 2 week trial to try it out and then if just 100 people sign up for the actual service on the cheapest service, I'd make over $40 in commission per month on those customers residual income every month. So the challenge is, get 100 people under you and you'd make over $4,000 a month residual income and could replace your job. Working with this service where I'm getting a lot of leads per day, I'm hoping to not only get a lot more doing the higher service where I'll make over $100 per month income, but I want like 300 people under me so I can be between the $10k to $20k per month income from those customers. That's my goal. And the funny thing is, I only need to see the first few sales to know that these leads will pay off. I figure, it's better than doing nothing. I'm trying all things I can, experimenting wherever I can and just pushing forward. I figure I WILL accomplish what I'm after. It's not a question of IF, but WHEN.

So I think I'll call that it for now. I don't think it'll take much longer for them to finish unloading me and then I'm deadheading back towards Tennessee. I'll be indulging in good ol alcohol while I'm home both today and tomorrow. ;) That's my biggest way of unwinding and trying to let some of the stress go. My venting here definitely helped a little bit so I appreciate ya'll taking the time to read! I'll let ya'll go for now, but we will hopefully chat again soon!

Camped for the night at a truck stop near Knoxville, TN

Hey ya'll! How's it going? Tonight will probably be a short entry (although I always tend to say that and then I go on to write a small book. lol!) The only reason I am going to try (emphasis on try) to keep it short tonight is because it's 11:30 where I'm at, and I really gotta hit the road again by like 6:30 or so. I'm like 4 hours away, and I have till 1400 (2pm) to deliver this load, but I don't want to cut it that close. Technically I could have delivered it today but decided to only go a little ways today.

This load has 2 different loads on it, which basically means 2 pickups both going to the same location. If I had gotten both loads quick, I would have been on the road by like, 11 or so this morning. If I could have gone the 6 hours to deliver and get there by 6pm, then I would have done that today. But I got to my first pickup by like 10:30, and the load wasn't ready till like 11:45. I got to my next pickup by 12:45, and got out of there by 1:45. When walking around my trailer to secure the doors, I did a quick inspection of the tires and noticed one of the trailer tires was separating. I was like "shit!"

However, the tire was still inflated, not sure how exactly. So I figured well I'll hit the road, and within 50 miles I'd go by a loves for fuel and I'd take the equipment in to have the tire replaced. My thought process was if it blew it blew, and I'd just keep going to get it to the shop. I could have taken it into our shop in lebanon but the last time I took one of interstates trailers there for brakes or tires they basically told me they'd get to it the next day. So I told them I'd just take it somewhere else and they tried to tell me that I couldn't take the equipment off their property. I said "i brought it in under the assumption that it'd get right in the shop based on what I was told, and you're telling me it wont be till tomorrow, so I'm leaving with the trailer to take it somewhere that will do the work today."

I needed to get that load delivered first thing the following morning, and if I waited for them then I would have been late.

So damn, a lot has gone on the past few weeks or so since I last was on here. (sorry about how long it's been since my last entry.) Partially due to lack of time with being so busy, partially due to computer issues, or I should say inverter issues. Normally when I'm out here with the computer, I'd plug it into my inverter to charge it up, but I broke the plug on the inverter. I guess I unplugged it from the port too rough or something because the plastic on the end broke and the fuse came out. I found the fuse but didn't have the other pieces to be able to put it back together. So for the past few weeks I basically would charge my computer up when I was home on my 34 hour break and then I'd get like 2 sessions on my computer out here before it'd die and I'd be without the computer till I got home again. Definitely sucks because too often I'll be in the middle of something and it'll be like "sleep mode" and I'll be like "damnit I was so close to finishing! (I know, that's what she said right? :P ).

So anyway, to close up this entry and try to not ramble on for too much longer, I'm still working on building my online business. We hold live, free, online webinars every monday and thursday nights. You should definitely check it out!

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So anyway, I will call that it for now. I'll try to not let it be so long before I hop on here again! To connect with me other than on here, i'm at facebook.com/ceazfreedom , twitter at patruckerchris , and instagram at surripets.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day/week/whatever, and I'll talk to you all again soon!