Starting hot shot trucking with half ton ford f150

I never understood the trying to get stopped argument. I've pulled some pretty good weight with my half ton and it brakes just fine. These new integrated brake controllers are much better than those old aftermarket units.

 

if someone can’t afford a decent truck for what they are trying to do, will they maintain a trailer? The first thing to go out on any trailer we ever had was the brakes. Usually jut an electical issue, but still, something that needs to be fixed. Inexperienced drivers have no concept of stopping distance, and cramming the brakes CAN send you kiting all over the place, especially if you are loaded tongue heavy.

 

There used to be a guy around here that ran a F350 pulling a 4 car trailer. I ask him how he stopped all that weight ? He said he only used the brake control when he was loaded.
He had the same truck I have a 99 F350, I would never try that.
If I recall he had about 600,00 on his truck.

 

True. I've been in a few spots where I've had to stuff the brake pedal and the whole thing came to halt a lot faster than I anticipated it though.

I hear you on the wiring. I have yet to see a trailer from factory with a bare minimum, passable wiring job.

 

You never heard of a cargo trailer? Sometimes people rephrase their questions when it is believed there is a misunderstanding. My truck has no problem hauling a 14 foot trailer loaded down with 5,000 pounds for hundreds of miles at a time. That is what it is made to do. Those Dodge amazon delivery vans don't seem to have a problem with this either. Anyways I'm going to continue using my F150 for it's intended purpose, except instead of hauling my tools for my previous trade, will be hailing small loads that cargo vans with the same engine do on a daily basis. Try not having so much personal animosity when it comes to business, you get tunnel vision that way.

Cheers.

 

Don’t quit your current job until you have work actually lined up. And make sure it will cover ALL your expenses, plus some laid back every month for maintenance and replacing your vehicle. If you are losing money, stop instantly. Good luck!

 

A cargo van built for hauling loads had a better coming system, better transmission and better rear end. They are built to work every day. An f150 is not built to work every day. Again, I say go do it. Just be sure to come back here and tell us when the transmission burns out.

 

Me thinks that this isn't going to end well.

 

Throughout history there have been many people who doggedly stuck to an idea regardless of what all the naysayers offered-
I’d list some of them here; but you’d all have to know them personally, as failures get written over in the history books.
Better to follow someone else’s documented success for a path to the same/ than to reinvent the wheel and end up with an anchor.

 

Don't listen to the naysayers. Jealousy is addictive. It stings.
Hot-shotting is like printing your own money. You don't need skills or safe equipment. Follow your dreams. Whenever I see that guy with his Dodge truck with flat inner duals passing everyone on the breakdown lane with a Nissan Altima about to slide off the very instant the $.99 Harbor Freight bungee cord lets loose, I really know we are all jealous and everyone knows it. I know he goes home at night, revs it up as he enters the trailer park and jumps out with two suitcases full of cash and people bow down.
This is indeed the land of milk and honey. There are those who can do it, and those who can dream and envy.