Did everyone go out of business? seems this forum died..

Only way to survive.....

 

Where does the ELECTRICAL LEAD plug in?
Is that a spring ride Trailer?
Is that even LEGAL or just for a carnival or Truck event?

 

My fuel bill for the last week on 3300 miles was like $2500 driving a semi . Hotshot business is stupid

 

Without seeing your exact rig I did a quick 1 minute look for national diesel average price and got $5.75 a gallon. With a little math that comes out to your fuel mileage at 7.6 mpg.
Yesterday in my semi I was able to pull 45k in cargo getting 8.2 mpg. A car hauler will likely get close to that pulling 2x the vehicles of a hotshot. While a semi does burn fuel, and a lot of it, it is that much more efficient than a typical hotshot load.

 

Like any cost, it’s relevant to gross. Gross 7k, spend 3k on fuel. Easy math at 1.00 pm fuel cost. Semi Trucks move consistently. Hot shot is hit or miss. The load I just delivered runs 3 x a week steady. Yesterday they sent 2 pallets out late via Expedite Box Truck. Im sure they paid much more, than the Truckload rate. But those situations are few and far between. I’ve seen hotshot/ expediting go up and down so often. I don’t see how anyone can count on it. Too inconsistent. To top it off, I got empty this morning, the expedited Truck shows up while I’m being unloaded, blocks me in. Had to explain he was in my way. He needed to move, so I could let him have the dock. None of it made sense.

 

If you have all that work then the fuel price shouldn’t matter unless all that work is at a cheap rate

I did hotshot for a short period when I first got in this
The argument from those who did it was the mpg was higher. Repairs cheaper etc

That wasn’t the case
Tires. Brakes. Wear and tear etc was all higher on a PU truck since you were doing it more often
And your bunk was the back seat

Only way I’d ever consider that is running local for high paying on demand companies like oil etc

 

This ding bat pulls in behind me yesterday running into my skids and sideswiped the trailer trying to back out of someplace he shouldn’t have pulled in. Then ran over the curb with his pickup and sideswiping the yellow poles with his trailer. Not to mention scraping the roof of the SUV with the tree limbs.