Hey everyone, I'm new here and hoping to find some advice on starting out as an owner operator hauling local dump trailer. Just wondering if anyone has any contacts in my area. I'm in the Hudson River valley in New York. Any and all advice is appreciated
Need advice on dump trailer work
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by GRS truck, Aug 18, 2015.
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Sorry, not from your area..
Hmmm, id drop ads in craigslist, then go hang out at the hot mix plant, or the sand and gravel pit with a big' for hire' sign, then i would pull out the laptop and start calling places...assuming your talking full size end dump trailer then again, you said dump trailer, im assuming now you mean this?
Is that the case? If it is, well you cant do crap with that trailer except yard hauling, i refer back to craigslist...my kid does exactly that, quite busy on weekends..
He'll advertise as a bobcat and trailer hauler, occasionally borrowing or renting one and using the trailer to haul it -
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Wow, cool deal....The company I work for hires O/O's quite a bit, they simply pull out business cards that they had dropped off..If you answer, and accept and complete mission, card goes back into the stack...If not it hits the trash
In a city of half a mil....they work about 15 different contractors
Good luck finding the constant stable mable...When you find it, it will be sweet
My pals who run end dumps here havent found stable mable..they are runnin for different people all the time..lots of one day jobs, lots of one week jobs, some one month jobs...thats it
So, plan on a serious networking campaign, and be ready for it all to hit at once...Find a couple other o/o dumpers and get thier business cards!! You'll want to hook up the caller you cant service, just farm it out to another driver...
Just gave me an idea, online local dirt and rock hauling board!!! -
My pals are busy though...charging on average 90 an hour
They got train horns, boat horns, police sirens, strobelights, spotlights the fat giant stacks all that..all the signs of a guy doin good...In fact one of my pals, the more mentally challenged one, keeps replacing the long pointy lug nut covers he keeps knocking off when he goes under the asphalt hopper and hits the sides...lol...its always one side or the other..one of them told me last year was 150k for him -
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