How do tow companies get so many vehicles?

Actually that really is my question.

So if I was a dealer that sold pickup trucks up to tractor trailers let's say, it's not legal to purchase salvage vehicles and sell the parts, and you're not permitted to have a dealership like that, and then in the back lot you have some trucks that are parts that you sell parts from.

For the longest time I thought that if I had a dealership that I had constant access to trucks, that I would be able to acquire vehicles to sell parts also. To me that just always seem like a never-ending supply of vehicles and where I'm at and how I'm situated here I could see that really really really making a lot of money.

Yet at the same point in time, having the trucking business here I don't think anyone could give me a hard time having trucks in the back lot and selling off the parts I don't need. I've already done it however many times over. Problem is the trucking business to me is kind of crappy unless I approach it a different way, and I need some kind of constant access to trucks, whether that's regular auctions or private people or whatever?

And then there's these tow businesses that I see. I went one time up to Carteret New Jersey to a shop up there and I bought some airliner tandems from them.

I get that people in any business can be successful, but when I look at a place like that that situated on maybe 20 or 30 acres with a garage that's larger than what dealers have, and you see like I don't know six or eight gigantic colossal trucks that can probably move mountains if needed... they cost more money than anyone could ever imagine and all you see is money everywhere and an army of smaller tow trucks and trucks for sale and money piling on top of money.

And I've seen this quite a few times with these tow places that I have been to.

I'm not a greedy person but I certainly believe in abundance and I'm at a point that I can pick where I'm headed and I'm looking for the money.

There's a lot of options for me right now, so it really helps to understand all of this clearly.

 

@brian991219

Thank you for the nformation, that helps.

From what you're saying, I would do better to either forget about parts and just become a dealer, or change around the trucking company however I want to and part some trucks out on the side.

You can tell me if it's not the fact, but it's kind of difficult I think for someone to give me a hard time if I have a trucking business and I have extra trucks or parts that I sell off.

If I had 20 trucks in my yard I could see them telling me I have a salvage yard. But if I have a trucking business and I have one or two trucks that I'm using parts off of and I sell the excess, I have a hard time seeing anyone giving me a hard time about that, at least in comparison to being a dealer selling parts.

The truth really is any trucks that I buy almost always they are identical to other trucks that I have and I use parts off of them and the excess does get sold off. I don't think I've ever bought anything purely for the sake of just reselling it or parting it without me needing something from it.

For example I just bought another F-350. That one is good enough I can put a tag on it and run around with it for a while, but ultimately those parts are going to go on to my other F-350 and whatever's left of this one will get sold off.

There's always some variation of that happening here.

 

I don't think I want to go into all the Salvage and all of that.

I think if I keep going with the trucking company for now, nobody is going to say anything to me if I have a couple of trucks for parts here, like two trucks or three trucks.

Now If I had 25 trucks parked in tthe yard and I had a constant flow of people coming in and out buying parts, I think I'd have a problem.

But just a couple trucks at a time, I don't think I'd have any problem.