Start a Hotshot or Semi O/O Biz?

It’s cheap to get into and the rates reflect it.

 

A lot of don’t stay long because they can’t make a profit. I have been doing this since 2008, meaning I have made it a profitable business. The first couple of years I did not make any money. No big deal with house paid for cars paid for, children out the house etc. Everyone has different situation. I remember telling my wife “ I don’t see how anyone makes any money doing this” I was doing what everyone else was doing and listening to them. Now I wait on a rate confirmation to get sent to me over the Internet. I will get a phone call for a expedited shipment. I do what most people on here do, work hard. I keep the shipper and receiver updated on the load. I am respectful and don’t overcharge. I don’t need the load board anymore and tactfully turn down loads every week.

 

If you can’t make it in the HVAC business you have bigger problems.

 

Watch Towpiglet on YouTube. Alex is absolutely truthful about everything HotShot.

 

But first you have to have a years worth of greasy handprints all over the hood and drivers door area.

At least one headlight duct tapped in. A cracked or missing aero skirt

And a led lightbar bungied to the front.

They’ll know your a Newbie if you show up with anything less.

 

I don’t know anything about HVAC business. Just relaying a story about a guy using his experience transferring over into trucking.

 

Towpiglet is just learning.

 

He’s been at it for 4 years and has made a lot of mistakes that he admits to.

And he isn’t starving, he is netting over a 100 thousand year but he is constantly on the road.

I know most class 8 guys on here are only netting a 100 a year and our constantly on the road

A few here have got it down and making more with far less road time.

To me my end goal is not my idea to try to get Rich in trucking. It’s a means to have my individuality and freedom to work as hard or as little as I feel up to.

There is multiple businesses I’ve had in the past that if I wanted to dedicate 70 hours a week to I could easily make a 100 grand a year.

I’ve been there I’ve done it and more. Netted a couple hundred a year a few years, though other than working I can’t remember them.

I just can’t see running just as hard with a HotShot as a Class 8 and making less money.

Not to mention the lack of sleeping and living conditions in those pickups

Than the fact that you have a $70 thousand dollar truck that is flat wore out at 4-500 thousand miles.

 

Towpiglet is probably raking in several thousand a month if not more from YouTube.

 

I have 767,000 miles on the truck I already had when I started. Started with 135,000. I stay at the house most nights. I really have it easy compared to most guys. I service the electrical grid in and the states surrounding Ohio. I run under 26k. I would consider myself semi-retired at 65 years of age. I am not getting rich either but I don’t run unless it is worth it. Most of the guys running pickup are running on the cheap. They do not know how to negotiate take anything as long as it pays good and when they deliver in area with nothing to fit on their trailer they burn up profit getting out. I will try to give good advice when given the opportunity.