So You Want to be UShip Hot Shot Trucker
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- Опубликовано: 6 дек 2021
- I am a photographer and jiu jitsu instructor who started working with UShip during Covid. My dad was a trucker. And when I was a kid I would go with him on trip up and down California. Hauling a variety of things like garlic and produce, and later oil then liquid fertilizer and urea. My dad was fairly successful with this business and wanted me to take over. But I never had an interest in the trucking business. I had different dreams. Many years later, little did I know or anyone else, that Covid would shut down the world. Only essential businesses would thrive.
Months later I inherited my dad's F 250 with a lift gate and 16-ft car hauler. In his retirement years he recycled oil so he needed a lift gate to lift those 50 gallon barrels into the bed of his truck. So now I have this truck and trailer and I am thinking of ways of putting it to work. I hear about hot shot trucking from my niece. I did research--lots of research, watching You Tube videos for weeks. I realized I can't give up my other businesses but how can I do this part time. So that's what I've been doing since September of 2020.
I've been considering this for a long time. I've had my class A CDL for 14 years and most of that I've been driving locally. I think the low ballers are trying to get their ratings up. Probably the only way to get experience when competing against people that have thousands of ratings on there.
Sometimes they dont respond cause they just want people to quote without answering so they can wait for a low ball quote then they will pick that person with the lowest quote, some of these people have experience they know how to play the game, and if its a third party delivery most of the middle man gonna wait for the lowest bid so they can make more profit, they know the game to get low bids.
You say Uship gets 20%, they actually get 30%. 20 from the carrier and 10 from the shipper
their site says 12 % from the carrier for the first 2,700 and 1% of anything after that?
Is that just a Canadian thing or are there other charges in there? if so could you point them out to me. Kind of looking at this as something to do on the side when i get laid off every summer.
I do a lot of uship stuff to fill out partial loads. Most of the customers I talk to say they don't respond to most questions because there are so many brokers out there trying to take these loads when they don't even own a truck. Try phrasing your question so that the shipper knows you are an actual hauler and not a broker.
Do I need to get DOT or MC numbers if I'm hauling small items like motorcycles, single vehicles, and pallets? I run a lot between CO and WI for personal reasons.
im thinking about starting
Same here
You drive 500 miles out your way if u need a load. Part of HAULING
That's why I am not a full-timer. I won't do it.