Hot shot towing??
03-20-2004 | 03:46 AM
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From: Central VT
Originally posted by BigBlackDodge
Luckily BigBlue you are in an area where one of the best comodities for the hot shotter is available. Oil Field.
You will need to be 21 with a clean driving record. If you do not have any recordable trailering time you will have to start with just a pick-up. You then will gradually move your way up to a goose neck or what we call a mini float. If you you run hard with just a truck you can run $50-70,000 per year. With a mini-float and a good couple of customers you can easily gross over $100,000.
Remember one thing, you cant hot rod your dodge above much what I have in mine, shell run to hot pulling the heavy loads. Pulling a float you can easily weigh in well over 30,000lbs + depending on the equipment you haul.
Oilfield rates are 1 way loaded rates. if you get a back haul thats a bonus.
example rate from Houston TX to Corpus Christi TX
Line haul mileage 208 Mini float
Line haul block 210 - $536.95
10% fue; charge $53.69
12 % Insurance charge $64.43
Total ticket - $655.17
Thats $2.58 per loaded mile. If you got a back haul it would be $3.72 round trip mile.
Rates vary between customers and your % will depnd on your contract you have with the company you possibly lease to. I am at 83% with Lonestar.
Luckily BigBlue you are in an area where one of the best comodities for the hot shotter is available. Oil Field.
You will need to be 21 with a clean driving record. If you do not have any recordable trailering time you will have to start with just a pick-up. You then will gradually move your way up to a goose neck or what we call a mini float. If you you run hard with just a truck you can run $50-70,000 per year. With a mini-float and a good couple of customers you can easily gross over $100,000.
Remember one thing, you cant hot rod your dodge above much what I have in mine, shell run to hot pulling the heavy loads. Pulling a float you can easily weigh in well over 30,000lbs + depending on the equipment you haul.
Oilfield rates are 1 way loaded rates. if you get a back haul thats a bonus.
example rate from Houston TX to Corpus Christi TX
Line haul mileage 208 Mini float
Line haul block 210 - $536.95
10% fue; charge $53.69
12 % Insurance charge $64.43
Total ticket - $655.17
Thats $2.58 per loaded mile. If you got a back haul it would be $3.72 round trip mile.
Rates vary between customers and your % will depnd on your contract you have with the company you possibly lease to. I am at 83% with Lonestar.
where i live we have a lot of auto auctions and people pay about $100 per vehicle to have it transported home. i could do 3 vehicles per day say 5 days a week. not sure if there are auctions every day though.
there is also a big market for fancy expensive cars to be enclosed and transported between NYC and FL (old folks going north and south for the season).
and then finally just general freight that'd go on a flatbed of which there is not much of a market here in suburban NJ. then again i may be moving to mesa.
anyone have any ideas?
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