Hustler with a dump truck

I’m not in the dump truck field, but Va DOT is looking for owner ops to sign up to help with snow removal. Not sure if this is common practice in other snow belt states, maybe worth looking into.

 

97 was the last year of the louisvilles

You really aren’t going to sub out a single axle, so you’ll need a trailer and a bobcat/excavator/backhoe,

plus your own big ### pile of dirt if you really want to make anything

don’t know what state you are in but I believe MA wants a 5 million dollar umbrella policy for plow trucks, and they won’t hire you without a wing, sander, and calcium tanks, plus a computer linked to the state office

 

I would try a township or county road department instead of the State. Likely make more headway, probably will need a sander too. Or, a large snow removal contractor, taking care of factories etc. My dad started doing that years ago, subbed under someone else for 6-8 years, and went out on our own. Hard on equipment, but good money if it snows.

 

Don’t be like the hustler with a dump truck scammers going on down here. Had left my gate open last month for a friend headed over and some dude comes driving in in an H2. In his heavy new york yankee accent proceeded to tell me he had just got done doing an asphalt driveway down the road from me and had a “half million dollar dump truck” still half loaded for me if I wanted it. Cash job. $300. $100 down for the “half million dollar dump truck” to show up and unload today and the other $200 for them to bring a skid steer and spread it out and grade tomorrow.

 

Lol, that mix would be a brick by tomorrow if they were gonna "grade" it tomorrow.

 

They hire contractors in NH too. The guy that plows the highway in front of my house is an independent contractor. Plows right around 6:00 in the morning like clockwork after a snow. Dumps about a ton of salt for every mile too.

 

A truck of that age that has a plow probably was used to spread salt and is very likely to have severe rust issues….it does look pretty clean in the pictures but look very hard underneath and where anything is bolted to the frame
As far as using it for dump truck work I suspect you will find the single axle to greatly limit your options but maybe in an urban setting there would be plenty for it…