Are pickups and 3-5 car trailer taking over local deliveries

The small trucks are very popular here. They don't pull a trailer at all, just a truck with 2 levels, and usually 2 cars on the top level, and 3 on the bottom. For me it would make a lot more sense to do it that way than a pickup pulling a trailer does. Or skip the top level and have just a 3 car hauler. Reka builds them, and last week i saw one sitting at a dealership, so i stopped and had a look. Was very impressed by the quality and the driver says it handled so much better than his last unit, which was a Dodge dually diesel pulling just a 3 car trailer. It uses the same amount of fuel to he claims, but hauling 5 cars not 3.

 

Would anyone want to drive a 7 or 10 car hauler around city streets? A 3-5 car hauler doesn't make 'big' money like the big rigs but he only runs may be 100 miles a day earning 200-300 that's good enough for some people.

 

how much would you consider "big" money like the big rigs? im running a dually 3 car and know a few others doing it. you can do 4-8k a week running 5-6 days a week. im interested in what big rigs are pulling in weekly.

 

Our best week was 10k working 7 days. November we did 31k. Mtd we are at 19k. But we aren’t owner operator and driver is driving 14 hours a day, sometimes more. And myself and my partner have to prepare cars sometimes so driver can pick up and go. So we doing good but it’s a lot of work on everyone to make it happen.

 

Consider $700 to $1000 per vehicle, 7 to 10 vehicles per 1500 mile trip. One driver can do round trip once a week.

 

So it takes 3 people to produce this result, 10k is gross I assume?

 

Yes, wouldn’t be possible without. Keep in mind we go over elog lots so need to switch drivers or mess w elog

And yes gross. Expenses are 3200 a week