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Starting a Dump Truck Business

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Strongheld, Dec 1, 2022.

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  1. Dec 2, 2022 #21
    REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Well, give us all the gory details. As long as you've been in trucking and as much as you keep telling us you know I'm surprised you got the wet end of the stick.
     
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  3. Dec 4, 2022 #22
    SmoothBore

    SmoothBore Medium Load Member

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    Dump trucking is the bottom of the barrel of trucking. The drivers are terrible, the equipment is garbage you’re literally better off doing anything else.
     
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  4. Dec 4, 2022 #23
    Czar_Zero

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    What part of Oregon?

    Regardless of area, might want to talk to some of the contractors in your area that do pipeline/underground work and see if/how they do subcontracting. A lot of them own their own dumps, but when things get busy they sub work out.
     
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  5. Dec 4, 2022 #24
    REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Oh? What kind of trucking do you do? How about logging truck drivers. How do you feel about them?
     
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  7. Dec 4, 2022 #25
    Cat sdp

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    very bad ……..

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    Cat sdp, Dec 4, 2022
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  8. Dec 4, 2022 #26
    YardMule89

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    Pleasure to meet you @SmoothBore.
     
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  9. Dec 4, 2022 #27
    D.Tibbitt

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    Lmao :happy1:

    Well me personally I have nothing but respect for log drivers , after experiencing a small piece of what they do offroad. Takes a special breed to excel at it
     
    D.Tibbitt, Dec 4, 2022
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  10. Dec 5, 2022 #28
    RGN

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    Yep, terrible drivers. I'd literally be better off doing anything else. 1st pic is going around a switchback, steep grade....

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  11. Dec 5, 2022 #29
    thatsright

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    I know every area is different but I would have called a one man show and told him what I needed and let him call his other one man show trucks and got my loads moved in a quick and honest fashion. The last thing I would fool with is a big crooked outfit. Those rumors you hear arent all rumors....
     
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  12. Dec 5, 2022 #30
    REO6205

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    Sometimes you don't hear about how crooked somebody is until it's too late....As in, "You hired Snake Belly Trucking??!! Man, those guys are crooks!"
    If you're hiring trucking in an area that you're not familiar with or a kind of trucking you don't do very often it's not hard to get screwed.
     
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