End dump lease on city local work..

That mileage sounds off, I run local and can do 200-250 miles a day doing 3 to 4 runs. Unless you are working an extremely small area I would expect to spend more in fuel and save alot more for maintenance. The places you will load and dump will likely be hard on tires. You have to factor in the cost of a liner for the trailer, hydraulic cylinder, wetkit, and hose maintenance, tarp system and blocking up the 5th wheel.

In my experience buying used older trucks, the good trucks set up for pulling an end dump are gonna be at the top of your budget for 20k. The guys doing this kind of work know what they have and aint giving nothing away for free.

Good luck.

 

Oh boy. I'd strongly suggest getting more experience on someone else's dime for awhile

 

Another thing to consider is how many days to pay? My first construction work I had pulling belly dump when I first started only payed once a month and it took awhile into the second month to get last months check. That was a lot of fuel to buy before I had any money rolling in

 

Man $70 an hour gross? Here in the Bay Area end dump hourly rates are $115-125 gross and brokers taking 8% and a few started charging 10 now. Dump work can be the easiest and best gig since your close to home. But it's also because of those same reasons there's soo many people running shady and equipment that should be outa service and rate cutters.

 

I doubt you can scratch out a living at $70 hour unless the truck is paid for, and you're doing the majority of the mechanic work yourself. You think I'm wrong? Go try it, and see for yourself.

 

Other then some of the more specialized stuff, a lot of dump trucks don’t need authority, just a dot # and ifta if you go out of state, my uncles been doing this since the 70s and the only way you are making money with a dump is if you own the loaders, excavators, dozers etc along with some of the material you are hauling....


I wasn’t even being a dick about the one ton comment, my f350 gets bid out at $70 an hour for snow up here, trailer dump should be $105-$125 an hour, the longer they make you wait to get paid the more you charge, and it’s 4 hours to show up in the morning, anything after that is 8 or to the next hour, non of this 7.25 hr day bs

 

Perhaps one of the folks that have denounced this guys job opportunity as all evil, can give him a righteous job???