How feasible is it to run a one man dump truck business?

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  1. Jbrow327

    Jbrow327 Light Load Member

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    Thanks. Are carrier packets contracts?
     
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  3. leviant0107

    leviant0107 Medium Load Member

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    More or less, they usually contain the contracting documents among others like insurance, safety requirements etc.

    How’s the yearly road work in Utah? Construction business? You should definitely research these things. What about gentrification? I ask about that because often cities are constantly tearing down dilapidated homes and contract those jobs out.

    You might want to do a lot more research before you pull the trigger. All we know in Michigan is cars, construction and farms. It’s the heavy haul state basically so I kind of don’t have much other lanes to want to get into. Luckily I love construction and trucking lol
     
  4. MOBee

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    No they are the information on your company and truck that is required by the company you hope to go to work for.
     
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    I agree, I would suggest you do much more research and maybe to work for a dump truck company and see how it really is.
     
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  6. kranky1

    kranky1 Road Train Member

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    These guys are all giving you sound advise. Some research is a good place to start, but pay particular attention to what they’re saying about where to research. You want to talk to construction or road building contractors, not aggregate haulers. Contractors hire trucks all the time, and that work generally pays by the hour, with minimums and travel time. An aggregate hauler is going to want to pay you ton/mile even if they’re billing your truck out by the hour, and you don’t want that. One scenario has you possibly spending a good part of the day with your truck shut off, being paid the whole time. The other is going flat out daylight to dark with #### running off all 4 corners of the box to make a ham sandwich worth of nickels and dimes.
     
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  7. leviant0107

    leviant0107 Medium Load Member

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    The ham sandwich worth nickels and dimes is the part that got me lol
     
  8. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    Hope to work for or actually work for ?


    do you hire your truck out to five different companies depending on who is needing trucks that day or week ?
     
  9. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    Hope to work for or actually work for ?


    do you hire your truck out to five different companies depending on who is needing trucks that day or week ?
     
  10. leviant0107

    leviant0107 Medium Load Member

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    I’ve got several companies I plan to link with, done at 12 with the asphalt at Cadillac? Pick up 25 tons of gravel at Stoneco
     
  11. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    Do you own an excavator and a big pile of dirt? Or another business doing well you would like to throw some money away to cut uncle Sam’s bill? Other then that I would recommend a truck/trailer so you can atleast drop the bucket and hook up to something else.

    or you can go dump trucking 101 and walk into the nearest scale house with 2 cases of beer and tell them you will work $5 an hour cheaper then anyone else if they make you #1 truck …
     
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