Building a yard?

First of all, I'm going to start this message with...please dont respond to me telling me not to buy a truck, i am not actually going to buy one. Just considering what it would take to start a trucking company....which is something i will think about very carefully before i start..

I'm thinking about buying my dad's old house, it has 2 acres, already totally flat enough, already has a big driveway that you can park several tractors in, and it's industrial zoned, and i already checked with the city hall and have been told that I can basically do anything i want with the property except start a pig farm. Obviously it's out in the boonies, but its on a truckable road, about 1/4 mile from a major designated truck route.


So, my main questions were about the actual yard itself...what has to be done to make it so that it can support the weight of fully loaded trucks? I already know where the septic system is, so that won't be an issue, there will not be any trucks parking there. But, the main thing is, I know that CRST has a lot of unpaved drop yards, and does not have any problem with trucks getting stuck..but i feel like i sure would if i just parked a truck on my lawn?

How could i go about renting extra space to other trucking companies? Seems like it could be an extra way to make money.

 

is that really any cheaper than just paving it with blacktop? I actually have to do a bit of paving anyway, but not much is required.....the place has a blacktop driveway and, while its a huge driveway, the entrance is very narrow and its on a narrow two lane road, so it needs to be widened, and i feel like anything less than blacktop could result in my drivers dropping trucks off into the ditch

 

hm, i didnt think there was that much to it....maybe i should just buy a parking lot. lol.

 

ok. And the soil is very clay, not sandy at all. I'll check out some civil engineering books.