Help to create business plan for tri axle dump truck company

Just started one myself in august and I'm up and running. where you located?

 

Oh ok. youre in a good spot then I'm in southeast pa. This is what I did and you can decide how you want to go about it. I planned ahead and did not want any real over head and bills. I saved up a hundred grand over the past 3 years.
-Started LLC
-Got Free DOT numbers off fmcsa website
- started business bank account and got company credit card.
-Bought 2003 peterbilt for 45k cash and put 5 grand into it fixing broken ####. Plus 60 hrs labor cleaning it up to like new condtion
- pa registrayion paid in full 1600 bucks
-pa sales tax 6 percent- whatever that came out to while I transfer thed= title
- 1 million dollar liability insurance on the truck paid in full 6 thousand bucks
- fuel tax sticker 12 bucks
After all that, time to hit the road. You can go to any large company and put your name in and you will get work. big shortage everywhere with dump trucks in our area. I know a ton of people and can work whenever I want but ill pay them like 6 percent broker fee even so, I still get 85 bucks an hour on average plus half hour to one hour travel pay.
I currently burn through about 30 gallons of fuel a day. So 100 bucks a day goes to fuel costs.
So cant really say I have any over head.
Word of advise, you don't need to spend the money like I did on a truck. I'm hard headed and just had to have a peterbilt 379. You can buy a nice mack rd for 25-30k which will do much better on jobsites. I have to worry about blowing airbags and getting lines tore out from underneath the truck.

 

thank you buddy. yes you can go on there tonight and get your dot number in about a half hour of filling easy stuff out. Be prepared for a bunch of misleading fraudulent idiots calling saying they are with dot compliance and all that junk. Fmcsa does not do that, I fell for it and they got my credit card number. My bank reversed the charges. Dot does require you set up a drug and alcohol random screening program but that can be set up at your med center where you get your dot card. It costs only 60 bucks a year through them. so like I said, when they start calling and harassing and posing as people from dot in regards to your new dot number, tell them to piss off and call them frauds.

 

Why an llc?

You do know if you expect to protect your assets it will not help you one bit.

 

Everybodys decision on what to do will be on different circumstances. I should say that I see a good amount dump truck operators run under llc around here. But yeah, do whats right for you.

 

Check your state about DOT number. In TN you don’t need a DOT number is you don’t cross state lines. No dump trucks around here run DOT numbers.

Getting a DOT number opens up a whole can of worms you don’t want to get into if you don’t have to.