Been there done that...be owner operator for last 25plus years.. now I'm semi retired.. it's not worth it anymore..all brokers just like 🦈🦈 sharks aka scammer they don't tell you how much the real rate are.. examples 300 miles for $500 no fuel surcharge= to $1.50¢ an miles... the brokerage acculturated get paid $800... He/she laughed all the way to the Bank ahhhhhh that $300 for sitting in the office doing nothing ahhhhhh
Trucking is the only business where a customer tells the service provider how much their going to pay, and the only way to combat that is to tell the customer go to hell and move it themselves, and if everyone does that it will get better, but like you said you always got bottom feeders. If it dont pay let it stay
Great content! I have been studying to become semi truck driver or hotshot. I figured hotshot would be the start to see if I like it, however I am contemplating buying a Ram 3500. I have about 30k in the bank. I’m also thinking about grabbing one of these trailers off Facebook for cash deal. I plan to get my CDL before I start but will need a mentor. I watch your channel a lot. I certainly don’t want to be low balled on the freight. I’m a former Veteran as well. Keep up the good work.
Hey guys got an '04 f350 gas dually been thinking about jumping in. With the shortage and price of diesel going up is it a good time to jump in with my gas truck? I have very little debt and the truck is running well. By the way very informative video.
Well trucking got me out of the hole I was in financially and not being an owner operator so idk about that statement you made other then that great video!
Possible the guy he is talking about was really really deep in debt..I met a woman back in 2002 when I was at a car dealership..this lady was .asking back then a 120 k per year .but she had a 90,000 yes 90 thousand dollars credit card debt ..so even though she had a good job she didn't qualify even to buy a bicycle
If the hotshot industry is anything like owner operators in the semi world I'd say probably 95% of them have never done a p&l on their business. They might ramble off numbers. But they're just pulling them out of the air. Most of these guys have no clue what their cost per mile is.
WHY no cdl experience, OTR experience, dont know what there doing, n etc w brokers, dispatch and etc (theough all type weights n weather) DO NOT RUN ILLEGAL... DRIVERS WILL TURN YOU IN. like me (you dont deserve to be on the road). Plus alot of us support truckers against trafficking. Truckers w class A experience over the road will succeed better than avg person thinking they can do this (stay home 😂)... They think its EASY 😂
I'm getting ready to lease on with a guy who already has dot and mc #s. He says he can get me between 4000 and 9000 a week but I'm having a hard time believing him just because I'm use to working a 40 hr week for $14 an hour. I want to hotshot but don't know who to talk to or where to start or anything. Eventually I want to be running my own business with it. I have a cdl, and a 1 ton truck to start with. I want to work my way up to a semi but can't afford it at the moment. I'm willing to work hard for the money and I don't expect to get rich. I just want to do better than I am now.
So many people get Into this business don't know how to run a business or manage money and it is easy to get into this business and you have to run hundreds of empty miles each week between loads
I've been a company CDL A driver for over 25 years and I have no regrets. While I'll never be a millionaire, I'm financially secure with zero debt. I'm a local driver, home every night and I get paid by the hour. Over the years I've considered becoming an owner operator, both semi truck and hotshot. Everytime I would crunch the numbers it just didn't make any sense financially.
ALL debt is bad…my trailer paid for…my truck paid for…only overhead is fuel and insurance…some months I only make around 3k after expenses but I still make profit and I only run 2-3 days a week. While others go under I will survive…temper your expectations and only run what makes money, find your own clients!
Lmao I'll tell you why because I've seen loads here in Pennsylvania that are about 20,000 lb or maybe five or six pallets tarp machinery being posted for like a 300 bucks from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh .......Or $600 from Philadelphia to Chicago or Allentown to fort Lauderdale Florida for $500......
Exactly, for the most part of you book a load a day in advance you will not get it for a "great" rate. The heavy hitters are usually posted the same day and are "urgent". Patience is key.
Right on with that message might add in that those who understand interest get it those that don't pay it Also capitalism pays well if it's taken advantage of if truckers haul for less and less the shippers and brokers will keep that money IF IT DOESN'T PAY LET IT STAY AND IF YOU AREN'T A CITIZEN YOU SHOULDN'T GET A CDL LET ALONE A DRIVER'S LICENSE !!!!!GOD BLESS!!!!!
Numbeec1 everybody and their mother watched RUclips videos and listen to ever hotshot from here to Mississippi telling you how much they where making I've been in this business for 28 years all big trucks I drove company and have been and owner operator the last 15,all my equipment is paid off now and you better know your bottom line or your done, just like so many,nobody can control fuel or insurance costs but most ever thing else is in your control.
25 yrs ago, before the internet, I was leased on to ACME trucklines. Every load that left Dallas paid $1.59 a mile. Backhauls were crap, low buck stuff that just tied you up for too long. I refused to deal with their backhauls and just boogied back empty as fast as i could for the next full price load. Did that for 3 years and only worked 3 weeks a month to make my self determined quota. Started with a paid off trailer, carried no credit card debt. Bought a new truck every year. No out of pocket repair bills. Time off way more important than getting rich in my book. I don't think that would work these days.
Thank you so much for that knowledge. I will be reaching out too you soon. I'm preparing for hotshot as I write you. I'm in it for the long haul. I've been trucking, for quite some time and I have a strong passion for trucking. You'll hear from me real soon. Thank you so much! This is Ken!!👍🏾
So you probably had your CDL for maybe a little over a year if you have one, and that makes you a super trucker, I probably got more miles in reverse than you have going forward and you probably drive an automatic for Swift, I can tell by the your statement and grammar your the problem with trucking
@@robertesposito9871 well if u think grammer has anything to do with how i drive than ur tha problem also i do drive an automatic but thats because thats all my company owns, and u prolly hotshot in auto f250 soo stfu also i sont drove for swift, i put 54k pound coils on my decc. and yes yall hot shotters are in tha way. yall drive worse than some of these four wheelers. dont run a cb, yall pull head first into trucc parking knowing damn well yall can sneak in any where else and park but take up parking for us. alot of us that drive real truccs dont respect yall. yall are in tha way n like i said quit playing truccer!
@@412hwc dude learn to spell Jesus Christ. Nice to see you are big bad super trucker lmfao. Btw I do hotshots and have way over 1 million safe miles as a prior company driver for hazmat tankers. I drove a 18 speed without Elogs, no adoptive cruise control, no automatic braking, non of that bs you newbies have but consider yourselves super truckers lmfao. I’m not bragging btw but just stating I have considerably more exp than you and YES I drive a F350 but I’m not a super trucker. Based on your response you are what’s the problem with this industry today.
@@DrSamBeckett to let you guys know how much of the way yall are and that yall are tha douche bags of truccers! keep playn truccer brother! hope its fun.
I haven't ran in 5 weeks, I refuse to run this cheap crap. Luckily my overhead is $1170 a month so I'm hanging in there by a thread, just worried what my upcoming insurance renewal is going to be.
Looks to me like the easy solution is before you decide to get into this business, pay for an hour or two of an accountant's time that is very familiar with or specializes in accounting for owner operator trucking businesses. I've watched videos on this hot shotting with pickups and trailers and the fad of the Sprinter vans. There's a lot of guys that are basically telling you to stay the hell away from both of them. If there was a lot of money in either one of them there would be companies that would be looking for drivers for Sprinter vans and hot shot business with pickups and trailers. However there are plenty of trucking companies that are looking for drivers. Best of luck to anyone that's in this business because there's something Un-American about hoping to see somebody fail.
@@DD214TRANSPORT nope, you are just slow. Got through graduate school just fine with no problem, so good instructors can hold my attention even when discussing the most boring topics. So your boring & pretentious✌️
I’m tired of hearing about how these guys don’t have “numbers” or there “un marked” before you act like you know everything about the transportation industry and talking down/ worrying about what other people are doing maybe do a little research. There are states like Texas where as long as you don’t leave the state, are under 26k and not hazmat YOU DO NOT NEED TO RUN NUMBERS! You can go straight to the fmcsa and find that out it varies state by state. Just cause you see someone “running with out numbers” maybe mind your own business and don’t just assume there doing something illegal.
Just my 2 cents lol I grew up around real outlaw truckers back in the day they didn’t necessarily do things by the book. But other drivers minded there own damn business back then drivers stuck together instead of throwing each other under the damn bus.
The FMCSA is very clear about the FEDERAL marking Requirements for all Motor Carriers. If you have an MC and doing business in Texas and you are running intrastate trucking. You still have to run a TDOT # Its the people that ran "back in the day" that cause all these regulations we have to deal with today.... everyone thanks you. No one really cares if you are running illegal.. you won't be around long. Life is full of choices and seem you have spent a lifetime making poor ones Now...If you don't like the fact that I teach safety and compliance find something else to watch.
I see them all over Indy Illinois Ohio Kentucky tennasee Missouri with no numbers at all I see a lot of Texas plates on trailers running INMB to care whatever u doing to feed ur family then go for it
I honestly do not care abt this running legal bs or markings on your truck. Don’t be an idiot by driving like a moron, don’t use drugs or drink, keep your equipment clean and be on top of maintenance and do the damn thing. Run how you feel and avoid the bs. I have a 2020 platinum f350 srw swb and I’m actually swapping out the emblems to f250 plus my trailer is a non cdl 40 ft. I am not putting and stickers or decals on my 90k truck. I stay under 26k and don’t plan on stopping by any scale houses. If I get a roadside inspection as far as I’m concerned whatever that’s on my trailer is mine and not for hire. Eff the government and dot. Let us earn our living to put food on the table without being in our pockets!
🔥🔥🔥🔥!!!!!
Been there done that...be owner operator for last 25plus years.. now I'm semi retired.. it's not worth it anymore..all brokers just like 🦈🦈 sharks aka scammer they don't tell you how much the real rate are.. examples 300 miles for $500 no fuel surcharge= to $1.50¢ an miles... the brokerage acculturated get paid $800... He/she laughed all the way to the Bank ahhhhhh that $300 for sitting in the office doing nothing ahhhhhh
Trucking is the only business where a customer tells the service provider how much their going to pay, and the only way to combat that is to tell the customer go to hell and move it themselves, and if everyone does that it will get better, but like you said you always got bottom feeders. If it dont pay let it stay
Don't forget farming.......
@@Jackknife-TV absolutely not, god bless the farmers, they don’t grow we don’t eat
Wouldn't have this problem with trucking unions.
How are hotshot making money now? I moved up to semi trucks, I see the cheap freight for hotshot now and I dont know how they're making money.
Great content! I have been studying to become semi truck driver or hotshot. I figured hotshot would be the start to see if I like it, however I am contemplating buying a Ram 3500. I have about 30k in the bank. I’m also thinking about grabbing one of these trailers off Facebook for cash deal. I plan to get my CDL before I start but will need a mentor. I watch your channel a lot. I certainly don’t want to be low balled on the freight. I’m a former Veteran as well. Keep up the good work.
Check out Tow Piglet’s you tube channel
Hey guys got an '04 f350 gas dually been thinking about jumping in. With the shortage and price of diesel going up is it a good time to jump in with my gas truck? I have very little debt and the truck is running well. By the way very informative video.
Well trucking got me out of the hole I was in financially and not being an owner operator so idk about that statement you made other then that great video!
Possible the guy he is talking about was really really deep in debt..I met a woman back in 2002 when I was at a car dealership..this lady was .asking back then a 120 k per year .but she had a 90,000 yes 90 thousand dollars credit card debt ..so even though she had a good job she didn't qualify even to buy a bicycle
ALL debt is bad.
The only People that make this comment are those with either no education or bad credit...lol. all debt is not bad.
All the bottom feeders that are making these brokers rich need to listen to this man.. IF IT DONT PAY LET IT STAY
If the hotshot industry is anything like owner operators in the semi world I'd say probably 95% of them have never done a p&l on their business. They might ramble off numbers. But they're just pulling them out of the air. Most of these guys have no clue what their cost per mile is.
It’s easy to say that because you are already rich and you can say no easily to a chip load it won’t hurt your wallet 🤷🏻♂️
Sir if you are running cheep freight you are killing yourself and your equipment for nothing. Wish you the best.
WHY no cdl experience, OTR experience, dont know what there doing, n etc w brokers, dispatch and etc (theough all type weights n weather)
DO NOT RUN ILLEGAL... DRIVERS WILL TURN YOU IN. like me (you dont deserve to be on the road). Plus alot of us support truckers against trafficking.
Truckers w class A experience over the road will succeed better than avg person thinking they can do this (stay home 😂)... They think its EASY 😂
I'm getting ready to lease on with a guy who already has dot and mc #s. He says he can get me between 4000 and 9000 a week but I'm having a hard time believing him just because I'm use to working a 40 hr week for $14 an hour. I want to hotshot but don't know who to talk to or where to start or anything. Eventually I want to be running my own business with it. I have a cdl, and a 1 ton truck to start with. I want to work my way up to a semi but can't afford it at the moment. I'm willing to work hard for the money and I don't expect to get rich. I just want to do better than I am now.
Do you have flat bed experience? Is your truck a dually? Do you have a trailer?
@@ckryegrass11 I don't have a trailer yet, truck is a dually, and I have haulled farm equipment and excavation equipment, hay , and cattle alot
@@1116Redneck keep saving your money and get the semi. If you ain't home, can't beat that sleeper at the end of the day.
@@bobbakian7369 I already own the ram i can use it to start with and I plan on getting a semi after this truck is toast
@@1116Redneck do you have semi experience?
They dropping like flies because they aren't very good at math or logic for that matter.
Dude you talk so slow…. You coulda said the same script in 1/3 of the time
Wasn't scripted. I did that off the top of my head. Maybe ill start scripting things.
So many people get Into this business don't know how to run a business or manage money and it is easy to get into this business and you have to run hundreds of empty miles each week between loads
I've been a company CDL A driver for over 25 years and I have no regrets. While I'll never be a millionaire, I'm financially secure with zero debt. I'm a local driver, home every night and I get paid by the hour. Over the years I've considered becoming an owner operator, both semi truck and hotshot. Everytime I would crunch the numbers it just didn't make any sense financially.
Man, that first year OTR was so horrible because of inexperience and not knowing where to park for layovers that I couldn't complete the year.
A lot of them will take cheap freight because they got to make money or they will be sitting.
✨Thank you for your service✨
Great video! Unfortunately, the get-rich-quick videos simply get a lot more attention than attempts to share the truth.
I need to upgrade my recliner. That's a nice one.
LMA0
ALL debt is bad…my trailer paid for…my truck paid for…only overhead is fuel and insurance…some months I only make around 3k after expenses but I still make profit and I only run 2-3 days a week. While others go under I will survive…temper your expectations and only run what makes money, find your own clients!
Lmao I'll tell you why because I've seen loads here in Pennsylvania that are about 20,000 lb or maybe five or six pallets tarp machinery being posted for like a 300 bucks from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh .......Or $600 from Philadelphia to Chicago or Allentown to fort Lauderdale Florida for $500......
They can post it, but that doesn’t mean you have to take it, let them sit on it and that will change
Exactly, for the most part of you book a load a day in advance you will not get it for a "great" rate. The heavy hitters are usually posted the same day and are "urgent". Patience is key.
Right on with that message might add in that those who understand interest get it those that don't pay it
Also capitalism pays well if it's taken advantage of if truckers haul for less and less the shippers and brokers will keep that money
IF IT DOESN'T PAY LET IT STAY
AND IF YOU AREN'T A CITIZEN YOU SHOULDN'T GET A CDL LET ALONE A DRIVER'S LICENSE
!!!!!GOD BLESS!!!!!
Numbeec1 everybody and their mother watched RUclips videos and listen to ever hotshot from here to Mississippi telling you how much they where making I've been in this business for 28 years all big trucks I drove company and have been and owner operator the last 15,all my equipment is paid off now and you better know your bottom line or your done, just like so many,nobody can control fuel or insurance costs but most ever thing else is in your control.
Great video
25 yrs ago, before the internet, I was leased on to ACME trucklines. Every load that left Dallas paid $1.59 a mile. Backhauls were crap, low buck stuff that just tied you up for too long. I refused to deal with their backhauls and just boogied back empty as fast as i could for the next full price load. Did that for 3 years and only worked 3 weeks a month to make my self determined quota. Started with a paid off trailer, carried no credit card debt. Bought a new truck every year. No out of pocket repair bills. Time off way more important than getting rich in my book. I don't think that would work these days.
You are certainly right on what you are saying
IF IT DON'T PAY STAY LET IT STAY
Semper Fi brother! 💪
Semper Fi
Thank you so much for that knowledge. I will be reaching out too you soon. I'm preparing for hotshot as I write you. I'm in it for the long haul. I've been trucking, for quite some time and I have a strong passion for trucking. You'll hear from me real soon. Thank you so much! This is Ken!!👍🏾
Gotta charge them a fuel surcharge to survive. Every truck owner has to be on board with it and force customers to pay.
Well presented, all true
Avoid debt like it's the plague focus on profit, not revenue.
Maybe u can become a MENTOR and show these guyS how it goes? Consultant at the very least
I have mixed emotions about hotshot trucks. No offense but get a cdl and commit.
i mean shiit hot shotters b in tha way man soo i really dont care. stop playin truccer.
So you probably had your CDL for maybe a little over a year if you have one, and that makes you a super trucker, I probably got more miles in reverse than you have going forward and you probably drive an automatic for Swift, I can tell by the your statement and grammar your the problem with trucking
@@robertesposito9871 well if u think grammer has anything to do with how i drive than ur tha problem also i do drive an automatic but thats because thats all my company owns, and u prolly hotshot in auto f250 soo stfu also i sont drove for swift, i put 54k pound coils on my decc. and yes yall hot shotters are in tha way. yall drive worse than some of these four wheelers. dont run a cb, yall pull head first into trucc parking knowing damn well yall can sneak in any where else and park but take up parking for us. alot of us that drive real truccs dont respect yall. yall are in tha way n like i said quit playing truccer!
@@412hwc dude learn to spell Jesus Christ. Nice to see you are big bad super trucker lmfao. Btw I do hotshots and have way over 1 million safe miles as a prior company driver for hazmat tankers. I drove a 18 speed without Elogs, no adoptive cruise control, no automatic braking, non of that bs you newbies have but consider yourselves super truckers lmfao. I’m not bragging btw but just stating I have considerably more exp than you and YES I drive a F350 but I’m not a super trucker. Based on your response you are what’s the problem with this industry today.
Why are you here?
@@DrSamBeckett to let you guys know how much of the way yall are and that yall are tha douche bags of truccers! keep playn truccer brother! hope its fun.
I haven't ran in 5 weeks, I refuse to run this cheap crap. Luckily my overhead is $1170 a month so I'm hanging in there by a thread, just worried what my upcoming insurance renewal is going to be.
Let's talk. Reach out
Looks to me like the easy solution is before you decide to get into this business, pay for an hour or two of an accountant's time that is very familiar with or specializes in accounting for owner operator trucking businesses. I've watched videos on this hot shotting with pickups and trailers and the fad of the Sprinter vans. There's a lot of guys that are basically telling you to stay the hell away from both of them. If there was a lot of money in either one of them there would be companies that would be looking for drivers for Sprinter vans and hot shot business with pickups and trailers. However there are plenty of trucking companies that are looking for drivers. Best of luck to anyone that's in this business because there's something Un-American about hoping to see somebody fail.
Semper Fi brother!
Semper Fi
How they getting loaded?...first thing a broker ask me is....what's your MC#..... problem is deeper than it seems......
But them brokers will stop working with you if you turn down all the low numbers offered. What are we supposed to do?
No they will not. They need you as much as you need them. If it don't pay let it stay.
Awesome 👌
Spot on…excellent post
Info isn’t bad, but it’s tedious watching his videos….dude talks so slow.
That's the difference between education and entertainment. Most people with attention deficit disorder have a problem following educational programs.
RUclips has an accelerated play feature. 1.5x or 1.25x speed
@@DD214TRANSPORT nope, you are just slow. Got through graduate school just fine with no problem, so good instructors can hold my attention even when discussing the most boring topics. So your boring & pretentious✌️
I’m tired of hearing about how these guys don’t have “numbers” or there “un marked” before you act like you know everything about the transportation industry and talking down/ worrying about what other people are doing maybe do a little research. There are states like Texas where as long as you don’t leave the state, are under 26k and not hazmat YOU DO NOT NEED TO RUN NUMBERS! You can go straight to the fmcsa and find that out it varies state by state. Just cause you see someone “running with out numbers” maybe mind your own business and don’t just assume there doing something illegal.
Just my 2 cents lol I grew up around real outlaw truckers back in the day they didn’t necessarily do things by the book. But other drivers minded there own damn business back then drivers stuck together instead of throwing each other under the damn bus.
The FMCSA is very clear about the FEDERAL marking Requirements for all Motor Carriers.
If you have an MC and doing business in Texas and you are running intrastate trucking. You still have to run a TDOT #
Its the people that ran "back in the day" that cause all these regulations we have to deal with today.... everyone thanks you.
No one really cares if you are running illegal.. you won't be around long.
Life is full of choices and seem you have spent a lifetime making poor ones
Now...If you don't like the fact that I teach safety and compliance find something else to watch.
I see them all over Indy Illinois Ohio Kentucky tennasee Missouri with no numbers at all I see a lot of Texas plates on trailers running INMB to care whatever u doing to feed ur family then go for it
I honestly do not care abt this running legal bs or markings on your truck. Don’t be an idiot by driving like a moron, don’t use drugs or drink, keep your equipment clean and be on top of maintenance and do the damn thing. Run how you feel and avoid the bs. I have a 2020 platinum f350 srw swb and I’m actually swapping out the emblems to f250 plus my trailer is a non cdl 40 ft. I am not putting and stickers or decals on my 90k truck. I stay under 26k and don’t plan on stopping by any scale houses. If I get a roadside inspection as far as I’m concerned whatever that’s on my trailer is mine and not for hire. Eff the government and dot. Let us earn our living to put food on the table without being in our pockets!
@@marioavila1559 you going to jail bro 😂