Dipping my toes in…

I hear you. Thank you. I guess the appeal of O/O to me is sort of work when I want. What do I know?

 

To actually think that infrastructure bill is going to be a good thing for tucking is a overstatement. By the time skimming off the top and pockets being greased, as well as environmental studies are done before upgrades and new builds start, most of us on here would be retired.

 

I’m a young gun! Haha

 

If you were home from say March until November and you could run the truck yourself if you have enough money to not go broke it's a possibility. But you would have to have enough money to buy the truck outright pre pay your insurance pre pay your tags every year and have $50,000 or more on hand for whatever repairs will pop up. And dump trucks take a real beating and require a lot of Maintenance and a lot more than a regular truck does.

No you cannot hire a driver or lease the truck out. Even more so if you do that you need to be right there watching everything. That will never work.

I would never haul salt because they know it's the only thing you can haul in the winter and you get paid nothing to rot your truck away and for your double frame to begin to spread and rot and make your truck worthless and useless. Some guys do snow plow but again the damage that it does to your truck me personally I would not but some guys do. Mainly the guys with regular dump truck businesses that every 10 years or whatever they get rid of their old trucks and buy new ones so if it rots away who cares?

It's not an easy business and it's not a part-time business.

 

Its very doable but not with a dump truck and zero experience.
A sleeper with a van or a stepdeck will make you an effortless 2 to 3k a week.

 

Work when you want to can be done with freight, but with a dump is a totally different animal. Especially local. @RockinChair made some very good points.

 

Thank you. I appreciate the insight.

 

Alright. I’m listening. What’s the play? Looking to stay local—I’m already gone enough!

Basically, the thing is this: I’ve always loved trucks. I’ve always loved to drive. Why not drive in my free time to make a little more cash? How do I do it?

 

I don't know whether you have a CDL or not but I would check on insurance before you do anything because you might get a price for insurance that it's over before it starts.

I don't know about that area up there but down here in Pennsylvania in the summertime it's not hard to put a truck to work but you have to bear in mind that whoever is the newest truck with the newest company they're going to call last and that person is going to be the first person they're going to lay off.

Dump trucks tend to be feast or famine and you really need to be there to work when the work is there.

 

Heck, man I have been always a marine life dreamer...wanna switch places and smell some asphalt for a change? Man I would like to see what rum taste like on an open sea....Did you guys drink lots of rum?
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Wait a minute...my wife is beating on my head after she saw what I was typing, the switch ain't gonna happen, she says.