Looking for some guidance, cargo van shipping.

You would hate it. If you have seen Amazon vans pile up and fill parking lots along with fleet working rental vans choking Adesa and other auction lots unsold each week and gaining more unsold vehicles that will not be sold to dealers who simply decided its not worth showing up to move them. Everything is absolute all stop.

For some it's a oppertunity. So if you think you can drive that thing, fill with fuel and have something left over at night for you own dinner and family back home then have at it. Otherwise it's a easy way to make 2 million dollars into a small fortune of 100,000 dollars in this industry.

 

There ain't to much cargo van action on here.

 

Rhodeislander there is a website called expediteonline devoted to expedite freight . Has cargo van info.

 

If you haul for hire you 100% need DOT numbers. If you haul across state lines you 100% need a MC#. No broker will even touch you if you don't have a DOT#. In fact you can't even sign up for the DAT load board with out a DOT number.

Also there is next to no loads that I ever see listed as cargovan on DAT. Uship yeah there are guys that run there illegal.. but the Uship bid process takes days on a load. It's not something you will get a load the same day 99% of the time. It';s a timed bid process and you are dealing with individuals who aren't professionals so they don't care if they waste your time.

As far as I know for expedited cargovan freight it's very hard to come by that freight and there is a specific loadboard from what I understand that deals with it but it's a very, very expensive loadboard and they supposedly won't accept a new company on there unless you have 6 vans. That's what I was told when I looked at cargo vans.

(I used to do vanlife and I'd love to just run a cargo van and live full time on the road traveling and paying my way with loads but it's just not that easy..)

 

Could you provide the Link or More Info on Dispatch ?