Advice for new hotshot owner

Picture from Alexander and his comment

Here is a pic, I'm hauling my own car back after picking up my new truck and trailer.

 

Nice equipment Alexander, I like the car [emoji2]

 

All your equipment including car NICE, Flatbedcarrier has offered some insurance agents in Texas I know of many carriers in Texas that he has helped. I am sure you can get a better quote than $14,000. Hope this helps.

 

Yes Skate-Board I'm a real Motor Carrier, how about you? I've been booking both LTL loads, and full loads for open trailers for well over 30 years now. I'm very confident in what I'm saying.

If any of you are running a Hotshot, and seeing mostly 48,000 lb loads in your searches have you considered that maybe you're not searching the board correctly? I'm not trying to be smart ### here, I'm just trying to offer some helpful advice to the new guys so they're not waisting their time. Yes, you can fine tune your search on any decent load board. If you're not sure how to fine tune it, call the load board and ask them how, some have videos on it. If they're no help, switch load boards.

 

any recommendations on hotshot load boards & are some better for different geographies? trying to do research & the get cojones to pull the trigger on my own hotshot business in Atlanta but you see a lot of guys failing in this market.

 

Yeah try all the big ones like truckeredge.net, loadboard123.com, Getloaded.com, Truckstop.com. And for vehicles try Centraldispatch.com. Out of these figure out which ones offer the most available freight in the areas you'll be running and let the others go. You can always resign up on them if you notice a drop in freight on the ones you have. Most of these will offer a 30 day free trial.

 

Not really answering your question on the load boards, because I feel it is better to find good outbound freight first. If you can find some people where you can get direct freight or a broker who have good paying freight going out you will be ahead of the game. Then using the load boards to get back.

 

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