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Gravel Boss
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Добавлен 10 фев 2020
Here we discuss all things business, particularly geared towards the pavement, gravel, and snow removal industries
How To Bid Snow Haul Off/Removal From Site
Covering actually removing the snow from a property
The numbers behind it.
The numbers behind it.
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SNOW UNIVERSITY: EP 3 How To Market Your Snow Plowing Business
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Here we talk about EDDM, Social Media, Web, and AdWords, and basically all the ways to market your services to the general public.
SNOW UNIVERSITY Ep:2 NATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS (Snow Brokers) and being a sub for local companies.
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I wanted to dive in to how to not get taken advantage of by national service providers/Snow Brokers, as well as touching on a few other points on being a snow removal sub contractor for larger companies.
SNOW UNIVERSITY Ep: 1 An Overview of Getting Into Snow Removal
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Lets take a broad look at how we go about bidding and planning snow routes and other important notes on getting started in snow.
The #1 System you need in your business!
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You need systems in your business to run efficiently. There are a lot of helpful ones to use, but this one is the first and foremost one that you need to implement IMMEDIATELY!
How to calculate taxes for your trucking / excavation company
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A brief dive into how taxes are calculated for your small business / trucking company / excavation company
Should you RENT, LEASE, or BUY equipment?
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Thank you for subscribing. Here we cover if you should buy, lease, or rent a machine. The pros and cons. I hope this helps! #rent #lease #buy #heavyequipment #dumptruck #skidsteer #excavator #miniexcavator
How to manage your money!
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Here we talk about how to manage your money in your business or personal life the right way!
How to bid skid steer/ mini excavator jobs!
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Here we briefly go into how to bid work for a skid steer/mini ex. This is not a super inclusive video, just a quick one we recorded to help people out!
How To Bid Seasonal Snow Removal!
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In this video we go into further detail on how to bid snow accounts with seasonal pricing.
How to pay off debt the right way
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We go into how to pay off business debt, personal debt in a correct fashion based off cash flow and recapturing cash flow
What should you charge for your dump truck!
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In this video we will go into how to charge for dump truck services and other hourly-related bids. Thanks for watching!
How To Bid Snow Removal!
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In this we cover how to come up with pricing for your snow removal services.
Into to Targeting Boosted Facebook Posts.
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Quick video i made on how to not show your ads to the whole world....unless you want to ;-)
Quoting Jobs With Measure Map + Route Optimization.
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Quoting Jobs With Measure Map Route Optimization.
Targeting Subdivisions in Facebook ads manager
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Targeting Subdivisions in Facebook ads manager
Bidding Large Sealcoat Jobs Profitably
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Bidding Large Sealcoat Jobs Profitably
Hey bro thanx for ur video, I just recently got my cdl and am about to by a used single axle dumptruck, that's all I can afford at the moment, I'm a beginner, 0 experience, and I need to work for my self, I appreciate all the advice, Much props and respect to you ...👍🏽
Any update? Are you finding work with your truck? Where are you located?
V blade or straight? Winged?
this video was eye opening. thank you
@@TyMarlowe-wl3ng it means a lot to me that its helpful. I appreciate the kind words!
Don't know where you are at but i ran mine sun up to sundown a lot of hours your figures are all wrong you not making money sorry for you if i used your math i would of went broke instead my head was screwed on right and i retired with a fleet of over 75 trucks built from scratch but made connections first found places to dump broken concrete and asphalt for free and depends where you at some jobs pay by the ton of material hauled he is a fool listen to him and you will go broke made my money was a good line of work if ran right like i did that's my opinion been there done that 12:04
If I am wrong, would you mind explaining why, and what you did to be so successful that differs from what I said?
@@gravelboss907he won’t 😂
Is this an episode of trailer park boys?
Best resource no one knows about
This makes me feel very good about myself lol. Thank you!
Booking now
@@lucasadams102 as you should
That was interesting, I’ve never thought twice about hauling snow. We just shut down and do maint in the winter so I’ve never thought of billing it. I think Lucile to the Fairview loop snow dump (if thats what I saw on the map) is a 20 min round if you’re hauling at night.. 30 EASY if you’re dealing with traffic. I’ve also never seen someone factor volume that way. I’ve always done LxWxH/27 all in feet then add a shrink/waste percentage over that… Good video Cameron!
Awesome breakdown be hard pressed to get those hourly rates round here. The snow plow helps a bunch and salt spreader, make it equal out.
If I had a dollar for every time you said UH, I wouldn’t need to buy a mini excavator at all.
And yet you still watched the video for his knowledge because you don't have it 😅😅😅
@@bndwoodlands775 If i had a dollar for every time someone talked shit about my trying to help people, while they did exactly 0 to help others, I wouldnt have to be in the dirt business anymore lol
@gravelboss907 😅😅😅...thanks for the video
It a habit and can be broken 😊
When you get a call from a potential customer, what all information do you gather? I believe I’ve seen you have a paper with boxes to check etc.
Good video. I’ve been contemplating this very thing for a while now. Renting really isn’t a good option for me, do to location. This is a new start up…so I’m a bit nervous about leasing or buying. Thanks for your breakdown!
Hi great video, am I assuming that I take to total amount of the coh, add them together and that amount is what is going into to savings account? Or how do I know how much to put into my other account, and am I doing this weekly/monthly/yearly ? Thanks
Excellent video my man!!✌🏽
Thank you so much for the advice
How come everyone has terrible math skills
Thanks man I appreciate the help!!!
There is no money in it for $85 h, that’s insane. $125 minimum, $$373 or three hour minimum on any job
You must not have understood. That’s 85$ per hr for JUST overhead and cost. There is always a percentage of profit so you can stay in business and grow.
It takes a while to get a channel to take off, keep it up buddy you got this!
Hey Cameron, I like your break down.. It’s very well thought out! I run in your area.. Right now twin screw end dumps run for $130hr, when you made this video they were $115-$120ish How do you reconcile $20hr difference between a 5 yard and a 10 yard truck? I know there is some value in being able to squirrel in where my T800 can’t, but half the capacity is hard to ignore.. BTW, I was very tempted to buy that corn binder when you had it posted for sale a while back, just couldn’t bring myself to spend the money on another investment when Im already working 3 different jobs 🤪. Good video, see you around! B. Fischer
Im aware i never responded to this, nkr your fb message from a year ago. I apologize. This question does pop into my mind from time to time so I figured I should answer. A big plight in the trucking industry is charging a rate because everyone else charges that. If you get to the bottom of it, its based purely off of “I charge this because everyone else does” According to the industry, price increase is only justified when fuel is up, and a cost decrease only happens when you are trying to tank the market or steal work. No other business operates this way. The way business is supposed to work, if you want a healthy, sustainable, and growing business, is to formulate your own prices, based off of your own costs and goals, and then sell on value brought to the customer. Sometimes that value you bring is that you are the cheapest. Sometimes its because you have the best customer service Sometimes the value is because you offer a specialized product. What ever it is, you still need to operate with YOUR costs and ideal profit margin, to run an effective business. We all know that 5 yd trucks dont cost half to buy or operate just because they haul half the material, but if 90% of your orders are 5 yds and under, why does the customer need to, in yiur words, pay the extra $20 for the bigger truck? Its important to note that when i owned this truck, i wasnt hauling large volumes for contractors, it was just used for my own little dirt jobs as well as home owner deliveries. For 3 years, I completely owned the homeowner market due to the ecomm side, insane customer service, and being able to arbitrage price discrepancies between pits. The customer felt as if i valued them, and they knew they were paying for for the better and way easier service. People wanted low hassle ordering, fixed prices, and stellar service. This is not found in most places in the valley or anchorage, and where it is, the business offering it are terrible at promoting it, leaving the customer without knowing they have the option, being forced to hire a company whos only value is price, at the cost of service. I guess Ill end with this. If I can charge more than my competition, and still steal all their customers, then maybe its a them problem, not a me problem. If my price didnt match my value, I would go out of business. You see this exactly happening in real time this summer as people have reduced spending. Last year I had 1100 orders. This year I only had 450. Id imagine a similar number of customers order, but they started price shopping more. They decided it was more valuable to them, to pay a lower price and deal with potentially worse service, than to pay a higher price and get better service. Its the customers right to choose exactly how they spend all their money. People vote with their dollars. Watch how they spend and do the thing you need to do to capture the money flow. P.s. we need to go snag a bite and converse all things gravel!
@@gravelboss907 I’m for that (chow) and I hope that question didn’t come off the wrong way. I’m glad you’re doing well!
Great video. Inflation is hitting hard. But most commercial customers understand.
DIck Cheney, you couldn't take the dip out ya mouth lmao
What are the best methods you are using to get the jobs? Are you using google, social media, word of mouth, signs??
(IMO), The BEST information on the internet. Thank you!
Time is a fixed asset. Whether or not you sell your skid-steer depends on if "finding work for it" is the best use of your time, AND will generate the most per hour profit in total (finding the work, bidding the work, doing the work, and collecting for the work - VS - down-time for the machine - which you are still paying for - while you are finding, bidding, and collecting for the work). You MUST find a niche that you can dominate and focus all of your time exploiting that niche.
Excellent. Thank you.
Excellent. Thank you.
Well done video. Appreciate the insight. All the best to you.
I'm a company flatbed tractor trailer driver stuff is always braking as much as i want to go work for myself but having insured registered fueled truck they just not paying enough for all that responsibility
Work for them and yourself. Then your truck breaks less, and you always have other income with the option to expand on the side if it becomes valuable
Tips for future videos -- 1. Take the dip k out of your mouth. You sound like have a mouth full of marbles. Think Nancy Pelosi. 2. Write larger on the white board.. 3. Try to do better than 1st grade writing. 4. Dont write something, then immediatly erase it.. Cardio and cut the carbs.. >; ) Thanks for the info tho, it helps..
Very helpful. Thank you
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Thanks Gravel Boss for the video gonna figure this out eventually
Greetings from Colorado! Thank you for making this video, very helpful 👍
Colorradddoooooo!!!! What’s good man? Happy to help 😎🤙🏽
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What’s profits?
Massive video. Can't wait for more episodes
Thank you for the support! New videos in this series coming soon!
Thank you so much for this video! Just starting out this year getting into the plowing business. This has helped tremendously!
I love to hear that! Happy to help in any way I can :)
This guy's good
Thank you sir!
Hi I'm very new to this industry and I want to thank you for doing the video but I have to ask, as a solo operator I'm not getting anywhere near the numbers per year as you did if I only sign on say 20 accounts. I'm not understanding how you went from 50 per push to 750 for the entire season. Per push equals 1 pass correct? It seems you went from per push to per visit which is confusing. So if I do 3 passes per drive that comes to 150 per visit, right? Or am I not understanding correctly cause I'm only getting around $15000 total from 20 accounts for 15 visits at 50 per visit. Please help me understand how you got $33,365 from 750 a season. That's 47 accounts per season. How would 1 operator keep up with 47 accounts. That's 12ish hrs for just one visit per location per event.
“Per push” is the term for “each visit” The $750 a season came from $50 per push, times our annual average snow falls of 15 per year. For the number of accounts: we manage 30-60 accounts per truck (obviously depending on size) That takes us about 14 hours of plowing per snow fall.
So how do you come up with cost to deliver say a load of gravel or other materials? Cost per ton material and what’s added to that? Thanks
That’s what I wanna know I estimate if a 7-8yd truck is making 2500-3000 a week is a good week avg 120-150x 5 working days to the truck is good plus whatever the material cost added on top of your fee
Should be $80÷.8 to get a 20% margin, $100
Skid 250hr. Truck 188 labor 100 a Hrs pay your guys well ull do better
Well said Dave! Are you increasing your rates for the 22-23 season?
300$ perhour
Great information however you didn’t calculate rent, back office staff, taxes, etc …
Subscribed appreciate the knowledge!
Your content is super helpful and much appreciated. Your channel is gonna be huge soon. Thanks
Great video
If you was to need to rent equipment for a job how would you quote that? would you just add the cost of the rental onto the top of the quote or what would be the best way to go about that?
Add profit on every aspect of the job including the rental, don’t do what I did and call for a quote and them be like “oh that rents for $460/day” get them to give you a quote w tax and all then add 10-30% profit for you
dont
I haul and pour concrete for $26/hr for a company. In my city I know dump truck drivers are getting like $32/hr as a few of my coworkers have left to go do that. I don't think charging 35 an hour on top of your baseline costs is unreasonable.