Starting a Dump Truck Business

abyliks · Dec 5, 2022

SmoothBore said: ↑

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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and that’s different then a majority of the rest of the industry how?

Mattflat362 · Dec 5, 2022

SmoothBore said: ↑

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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Around here (100 mile radius of Cleveland, Oh.) I see nothing but really nice newer trucks. Exceptions of course!

A dump truck around here makes 600 to 1000 a day depending on the truck and the material.

They run a LOT!!

thatsright · Dec 5, 2022

REO6205 said: ↑

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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Well I know people that know other people and so on and so forth. Thats where the rumors come from. I just have to figure out which ones are somewhat true. I also still live in somewhat a small town so i may have an advantage over others. I will call someone I know before I do anything. Just so happened i needed to have a car towed and I called a guy that has a rollback well he did have. He had sold it BUT he said let me call someone. That someone came and got it for me. I think some people call it networking.

Midwest Trucker · Dec 5, 2022

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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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What you described is what I did. One man show that brought in 3 or 4 other small outfits.

Like REO said though, if you don’t know you don’t know. I did make some great contacts through this experience though.

One guy referred by one of the drivers came out and replaced all of the hydraulic lines and fitting on my old excavator. Mobile truck with everything onboard. I’d been looking for a service like that for a couple months. Just a real fantastic person and new friend to boot.

thatsright · Dec 5, 2022

Midwest Trucker said: ↑

What you described is what I did. One man show that brought in 3 or 4 other small outfits.

Like REO said though, if you don’t know you don’t know. I did make some great contacts through this experience though.

One guy referred by one of the drivers came out and replaced all of the hydraulic lines and fitting on my old excavator. Mobile truck with everything onboard. I’d been looking for a service like that for a couple months. Just a real fantastic person and new friend to boot.
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Most of the guys around here know each other so this is not likely to happen. Lol.

Allow Me. · Dec 7, 2022

A few things to mention about dirt work.......You will not fire up your truck in the morning and drive 4 mi to the job site, you will drive a lot of empty, non-paying mi. Your truck goes where the work is, even 100 mi away. The truck makes $$$ in several different ways. By the hour, by the load or by tonnage. If you are running a "by the hour " job you will get signed out if you goof off.

If you take an out of town job, you pay the hotel bill. Winter work slows way down. You should ride with a driver a few days to see for yourself if this is your cup of tea, as my grandmother used to say. Asphalt jobs (highway paving) require the driver to know his stuff when arriving at the job site. Pay to the truck mostly 30-45 days later. Contracting work can be hap-hazard with supervisors yelling and plenty of grunts bossing you around. Can you work a new job next week that requires overnight start time at 8pm ? Now, that's fun ! Oh, and the one I really like, you show up at the load site at 6am 50 mi from home and there's a line of trucks about 30 long and you time doesn't start until the first bucket hits your trailer ! !

REO6205 · Dec 7, 2022

Good description.

Mattflat362 · Feb 2, 2023

Allow Me. said: ↑

A few things to mention about dirt work.......You will not fire up your truck in the morning and drive 4 mi to the job site, you will drive a lot of empty, non-paying mi. Your truck goes where the work is, even 100 mi away. The truck makes $$$ in several different ways. By the hour, by the load or by tonnage. If you are running a "by the hour " job you will get signed out if you goof off.

If you take an out of town job, you pay the hotel bill. Winter work slows way down. You should ride with a driver a few days to see for yourself if this is your cup of tea, as my grandmother used to say. Asphalt jobs (highway paving) require the driver to know his stuff when arriving at the job site. Pay to the truck mostly 30-45 days later. Contracting work can be hap-hazard with supervisors yelling and plenty of grunts bossing you around. Can you work a new job next week that requires overnight start time at 8pm ? Now, that's fun ! Oh, and the one I really like, you show up at the load site at 6am 50 mi from home and there's a line of trucks about 30 long and you time doesn't start until the first bucket hits your trailer ! !
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Well said!

motocross25 · Feb 2, 2023

Allow Me. said: ↑

A few things to mention about dirt work.......You will not fire up your truck in the morning and drive 4 mi to the job site, you will drive a lot of empty, non-paying mi. Your truck goes where the work is, even 100 mi away. The truck makes $$$ in several different ways. By the hour, by the load or by tonnage. If you are running a "by the hour " job you will get signed out if you goof off.

If you take an out of town job, you pay the hotel bill. Winter work slows way down. You should ride with a driver a few days to see for yourself if this is your cup of tea, as my grandmother used to say. Asphalt jobs (highway paving) require the driver to know his stuff when arriving at the job site. Pay to the truck mostly 30-45 days later. Contracting work can be hap-hazard with supervisors yelling and plenty of grunts bossing you around. Can you work a new job next week that requires overnight start time at 8pm ? Now, that's fun ! Oh, and the one I really like, you show up at the load site at 6am 50 mi from home and there's a line of trucks about 30 long and you time doesn't start until the first bucket hits your trailer ! !
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This is a great description. And might I add after all of this you’re 300 lbs over and the scale house won’t let you out overweight. And if you’re anything like me you either dump off 30 lbs or 3,000 lbs

abyliks · Feb 2, 2023

motocross25 said: ↑

This is a great description. And might I add after all of this you’re 300 lbs over and the scale house won’t let you out overweight. And if you’re anything like me you either dump off 30 lbs or 3,000 lbs
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a lot of places are not letting you leave overweight any more, and some (waste management) will park you off to the side in “time out” if you roll in heavy.

Ive spent a little bit of time in time out….

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