Buying a straight truck when new to trucking?

If you make more then you spend you will succeed.

 

you may not even need a refresher course, you already got the A-CDL.

do you have the hazmat endorsement?

do you have the TWIC card?

there can be local lubricants companies near you or with in distance, that deliver lubes, grease, maybe even washer fluid to self serve gas stations, garages, etc.

i think however, a lift gate might work better for this type of hauling.

then there are furniture stores that need, delivery drivers, with trucks.

then there is mail hauling from station to station and back to the main d/c.

even Fed Ex needs o/o's......

many possibilities out there for class B.

 

Get a tandem axle straight truck with a moffet and hit up the brick block lumber sheetrock and custom stone companies. Stay within 100 or 150 airmiles of base.. Whatever your insurance and DOT limit is, doing jobsite drops and you will flourish. Charge by the hour.

 

Oiltanks, pellet vendors, maybe supersack sand or firewood, engine cores, prefab building kits, drums of chemicals to manufacturers, structural steel, pallet racking from wholesaler to user etc.

 

that's a thought, but in some states, like up here in MA, he would need a hydraulics (hoisting license) license to use the moffet.

 

Call your state DLD and see what it would take to make your cdl A active.

You may or may not need a med cert. I think there's an exemption someone posted on this forum for INTRAstate haulers.

How long ago was long ago that you never used it?

 

Stupid crap like that is why i left mass.

 

i can't say i don't blame you..up here, we are either taxed, or "fee'd" to death.

 

My work bench at smith & wesson had a sticker on it that said born free, taxed to death.

I pay 1/11th of my former property tax now.