Where to find local work NYC? 26 foot dry box with lift gate

Furniture warehouses (i.e. Bobs discount furniture/other big furniture retailers) mail, warehouse transfer, home appliance delivery warehouses, dry goods distribution centers.

 

Warehouses in nj, same as the furniture n appliances. Mail is a process from. What I understand. Get vetted, go thru all the beauracratic stuff, then wait for a run to come up for bid that you want n have the equipment for. Might be a week might be 5 years.

What you're up against is that you've bought equipment that's primarily used for household deliveries with lots of labor.

Go to every warehouse you see trucks same size as yours coming n going from and talk to who you need to talk to there to find out who has work for you.

 

Around NYC I would be looking a 12'6" height. You can still get a fork lift in and be low for overpasses.

 

See if you can contact your services to a HCR Mail Contract Carrier. I've talked to a couple O/O Tractor Trailer Drivers and a lot of them do it this way instead of bidding on routes. Clifford B Finkle is big around the NYC/North Jersey area and they use a lot of straight trucks. I think Postal Transport owns Finkle and I've seen them hauling Beam Bros Trailers as of lately. I don't know if they got some of Beam Bros work because Eagle Express Lines took over Beam Bros.

If you do get contracted with a Mail Contract Carrier, the work is very easy. Most of them pickup Mail at the smaller Postal Stations that Tractor Trailers can't fit in. They do everything from picking Mail, Parcels, FSS Flats, BMEU, Air Port Express (which can NEVER EVER be late), and so on and so forth. Everything is on wheels, so you just push the Mail off. Very simple work.

 

You can also try Fed Ex as well. They have a big terminal by Newark Airport. Fed Ex Custom Critical and Fed Ex Ground hire Straight Truck Independent Contractors/Owner Operators. But word to the wise though, they recently got sued and had to pay out $227 million for misclassification of job title. But it MAY be an option, if they can ever figure out WHAT an Independent Contractor actually is.

 

Local driver in NYC, can't say I envy you