What do I need to start hotshot?

A job would help first.
@Chinatown will be able to help.

 

Bennett Motor Express
https://bennettdrivers.com/driveaway-pickup
Earn big without the rig with high-paying truck driving opportunities in Bennett’s DriveAway Pickup division! If you have a pickup truck that’s one ton or greater that can handle one unit at a time OR up to three-unit combinations with our haul-and-tow vehicles, you can be your own boss while getting paid to see this great country.

• 1 (one) ton heavy-duty pickup truck (or larger)
• Model year 2000 or newer

 

Here's something if you have some extra cash or can do it later:
Sleeper Berth - Woodhouse
https://www.woodhouse.com/sleeper_berth
This Compliance Summary is intended to help familiarize inspectors and officers in the field with a Sleeper Berth unit which is being installed and utilized by “Hotshot” carriers in one-ton pickups. Woodhouse Sleeper Berth, Inc. (WSB) has developed a Sleeper Berth conversion.
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Why?

 

Ive posted about this in the past. Hotshot is probably the most volatile market in trucking. Rates are terrible. You limit yourself to light freight and only certain markets. You'll run as many miles as a semi without the same pay. Its not easier than running a semi, you can't do it part time.

Its not as easy as "buy a truck and run freight".

 

Wh

What do you mean, there’s plenty of freight. Every SD partial, or any partial for that matter or any light load has turned into a hotshot load. Just look at all the successful hotshotters on YouTube it’s easy money