My Truck Buddy is ALIVE!

It looks like we won’t have to catapult ALL lawyers and bureaucrats into the sea. I actually found a helpful one. Two, actually, but right now i’m talking about the guy helping me keep MTB’s giggleyberries out of the fire.

Last week or so, I was ready to throw in the towel on MTB. There was just too much regulation, too much overhead, too much pain in the butt. Like all my plans, it started humbly, but quickly morphed into schemes of such grandiose scale that I was already practicing my Letterman appearance in the mirror. (Ever seen “The Commitments?” Like that, but less Irish.) As I’d finally envisioned it, it just couldn’t happen. (Probably — we’ll have to see what happens in Phase III, which, I guess, I should probably start drafting…)

I wasn’t too bummed about the apparent demise of the dream because frankly, I was getting a little exhausted and bored. Mostly bored — I do enjoy the hard work even if bitch about it all the time. Plus, I was free to pursue a marketing/copywriting/small biz consultation business idea I’ve been kicking around.

Anyway, I do ramble. The point is that I had one more idea for MTB and I ran it by the lawyer. He said “Yeah, you can do that.” The best part: it’s extremely low maintenance. (In theory…) Basically it’s Craigslist just for guys with pickup trucks. I don’t charge customers for anything, I don’t take a cut of Truck Buddies’ jobs, and I don’t have to organize a big network of Truck Buddies. They take care of everything themselves. I just charge the Truck Buddies a small fee for keeping their profile on the site.

Simple. Apparently effective.

It’ll undoubtedly morph into something else, or run into new snags, but this thing is ON, baby. Thank God.