please show the math that proves your statement, otherwise it is just an opinion.
1.70 loaded mile (Canada only runs) x 7000 miles = $11,900 month
fuel: $4000
food: $500
hotel (& sleep in extended cab): $500
Oil change: $100
Repairs&Tires: $500
Insurance: $300?
Truck Payment: 0
Toll Booths: ?
Expenses monthly total: $5900
11,900-3885 = MONTHLY PROFIT $6,000
Yearly $72,000 annual salary (not including taxes)
craziest part is you can also take loads back independently and still make a profit on backloads.... http://www.uship.com/
found a job where i can drive a 1 ton truck hauling rvs but have expense questions
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by hiii98, Jun 17, 2014.
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Well, Ryan you aren't going to want to hear this but you came here looking for advice and got it but it isn't what you want to hear. You're getting advice from people who know a little something about hauling stuff across the country with their own trucks. You don't have a figured expense for MISCELLANEOUS and you need one. Five hundred bucks will average six to eight nights in a motel. The $30 motels are getting harder to find and are all but gone and if you do manage to find the super cheap ones you will more often than not take something with you to remember it by...lice, bed bugs, foot fungus, skin rash or worse. Running 7000 miles a month on an older/ higher mileage vehicle can leave you hurting for repairs and in the hole quickly as a single repair can easily run in the four-digit range...and it will. The information on the websites are no different than truck company websites designed to entice drivers with promises and POSSIBLE (not probable or realistic) earnings that rarely materialize. Trust us on the advice you receive here. If you want to live on the road and have no bills at home, go for it....otherwise, please rethink your situation.
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I appreciate the advice I just need hard facts not opinions. I can adjust adjust repairs to $600 per month or roughly $8,000 in repairs/maintenance per year. Also my brother is a diesel mechanic and can do the work cheap (not free). The extended cabs can be converted into a sleeper.. so why wouldn't I just sleep in back cab rather than a hotel? maybe a $50 hotel 2 nights on a 5 day run (or none at all). Even if I was to adjust the hotel number it would come to $800 a month $300 increase and repairs $100 increase total increase of $400 so a rough monthly profit of $5,500 or $66,000 per year not including a single back load (which would add 15-20% increase to gross profits. I want to make sure the advice is not coming from ego driven CDL holders to 4 wheelers doing the same job thinking they are going to make the same profits...when reality is they could (in theory...unless I'm still missing something...if so please point out). Trust me I'm open minded, I just don't want to spend the 5,000 to go to driver school only to have a boss ...when I could be independent , drive a smaller truck, and make the same money if not more. Also the fuel costs might be lower than I calculated ...possibly significantly I'm seeing a lot of 2004-2008 Cummins motors are doing 25mpg highway unloaded. (without mods...). Also I calculated diesel at $4 gallon when national average is actually $3.71.
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As previously mentioned by others, if you can get some back hauls you can make a very decent income. -
so Brian# would you say that my numbers above are accurate and that you can make a decent living at this?... or do I need to get my CDL and work for a trucking company? I am an extremely hard working, ok with the lonely lifestyle, and an extremely INDEPENDANT person who has been self employed for the past 15 years.
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I know nothing about the rv business. But I do know resourceful people always find a way. It sounds plausible to me. I would still get the CDL. I have one with an air brake restriction because of the trailer I pull. It's easy to obtain without any type of school. Just study for the test and take the driving test with a truck/trailer combination that meets the standards. I used the 3500hd with a 30' gooseneck rated at 22k.
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THANKS BRIANE I think that is 100% exactly what I'm going to do! stay in a few hotels and keep studying for the CDL each night for week(s).
your saying I can take the CDL course test in my own 4 wheel truck and trailer? I didn't even know you could do that, I assumed it had to be a semi. I am extremely resourceful, divorced, and a lot of motivation to make some money and see American (and Canada apparently), -
lmao So 10 people who probably know about the business all say the same thing, but it isn't what you want to hear so you basically tell them to piss off. Then some guy comes along, ADMITS to you that he has no clue about this side of the business, but he says something close to what you wanted to hear so you take it and run with it. . You can't make this stuff up folks. You just can't make it up.
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