Hotshot I don't get it.

I believe what I'm going to do it just go ahead and pay for something like truckersedge for a month just to get an idea of what Freight is moving around for the Hotshot expedited world.

 

Flatbedcarrier you are correct that is the only guesstimate I guess we will make up a word today was going by what was available if I don't have my own customers at the start. My biggest worry is the first year before I have a customer base we're if I was not using a dispatch service that's where I would have to go to get moving.

 

Lite bug. I'm in upstate South Carolina. I have never minded honestly where I go except for Mexico and California. As long as there's some kind of freight coming back you know. Heck I'm in Canada anywhere between Detroit and Montreal once a month. Right now I'm in Dover Delaware fixing to head to West Virginia then back down to South Carolina. I think as far as what I see is of course it would be best for me with not having customers yet to get started would be using a dispatch service or something like that. The first year is what I see is going to be the real tricky part just to stay afloat until a customer base is setup. Like this post earlier with people saying there's no money in it and all that good stuff I just looked through the want ads for the southeast and there are a ton of people hiring hotshot driver so I would say 85% of the information you get when you ask someone especially on here is no money. Honestly it kind of makes you wonder what some people call money. I personally like running these little trucks. I'm six foot tall. With the little set up I got it takes about 10 minutes to cover the windows the way I like it done because I do like to drive at night if possible and I get it dark as hell in this little truck. I have a course the back seat taken out couldn't covered some plywood with the indoor outdoor carpet so it did not mess anything up bought some medium firmness memory foam outside of Detroit cut to the size that I wanted and and I sleep just fine. You can get in and out of places a lot better and tolls are cheaper. I kind of like being in a niche business. With the little company that I'm with now I will leave out and be on the road anywhere between 4 to 7 days and then home for three or four because we have a load rotation with the company trucks that are there. When I took the job I was worried about that but I #### sure honestly make good money with all these days off. Well I see no point in not hiding it. I charge by the day because most of these companies like these guys get scared to death to pay any more than $0.35 a mile and I just was not going to do that. I charge $225 a day so it's not a terrible check once I take taxes out I could run twice as much or take the out west loads and make more butt I never wanted to do that my father and grandfather and live in a truck and watch your family disappear.

 

I just thought about it sorry about the long post I just think if you got something to say say it LOL. We might end up with the longest average post thread on the site before it's over with LOL

 

This is the little set up that we run now this is the truck that is plated for 26,000. Again I'm about empty but this is a double stack trailer that hold 10 on the lower rack and 11 on top. We have two more trailers that's welded up the same way except they are 40 foot long with single stack.

 

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