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J

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I am considering retireing soon and would like to see the country. I thought that hauling yt tractors, E-bay Items and looking for quality horse drawn equptment to re-sell to the old order Amish would be a good way to supliment it. I have located a late model Toter home, (below CDL truck with a gooseneck hitch and a 14 ft all season camper/sleeper) thinking of then getting a new 36 ft heavy open trailer. Any advice on hauling rates and how to Charge fairly, Bid, by the mile, with a discount for overlaping loads or by weight.
Thanks
 
Technically hauling for hire falls under DOT rules once you cross the 10,000 lb level. Since there are many rules other than CDL you may want to make yourself familiar with these.

On the other hand a toter home can be licensed as a RV.

If you know the rules you may be able to take the above statements a read between the lines.
 
Don't know how hard/easy it would be to get into, but another option might be to get in with an RV manufacturer and ferry new units from the factory to the dealers.

Could be either drive motorhomes or tow trailers with your own vehicle. I don't know any more details except someone threw it out to me as an idea once.
 
If your area is fairly flat, then hauling there might work, but, with a lot of weight that you might be hauling, might surely over-tax your braking on the tow vehicle, if you get into hilly areas. Nothing worse starting down a long steep hill, with a heavy tow, or load, and finding out your brakes have heated up, and not slowing down your rig! Ever hear the song about "thirty thousand pounds of bananas?"
 
I was not planing on getting a trailer that excedes the rated tow capacity of the tow rig. these things are used to haul race cars and their equptment around the country, so they are prepared for proper towing. I am familar with the road regs. I have towed a lot of things. I own 4 different trailers now and do a lot of my own hauling with my dodge cummins diesel. I am looking for opinions as fair ways to charge for short/partil loads and ideas on the current going rates.
Thanks
 
Like John said make sure you are familiar with the regs. Also if you haul machinery you will need by FMCSA rules a $1,000,000 in liability insurance plus cargo insurance of at least $100,000 Or forget being able to load for much of anybody. If you doubt this just look at 3 3020"s at $15,000x 3 is $45,000 these are old tractors if you load newer stuff the price goes up. I"m not trying to tell you not to go for it just some of expenses to it. You will also need to have Icc authority to be legal then fuel tax,hut tax for NY,KY,NM,OR then property tax for KS,KY,AR.Also will come the drug test, DOT physical, and some body to be the safety person also the billing comes too. This is just to be legal. Now you can go out load tractors and deliver them till there is an issue like the guy runs a light knocks the tractor off and then WHO pays not your insurance company if you are hauling for hire on your car insurance you will be and they will probably drop you too.
Right now things are so slow I would wait till things pick up some. Just my opinion on that.
 
To answer your question. $1.50 to $2.00 per loaded mile seems to be about the going rate. I did a little of this a while back. Use a gps to determine the miles prior to loading up and have the client pay up front before loading. I would sometimes be able to find a second tractor or item that needed to go in the same direction. I then refunded the owner 20% for miles that overlaped, again based on the GPS. Smaller Items, plows, implements and items under 1000lbs, I did on bids.
 
to also retired:
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. At last someone cared enough to read my post and answer my question instead of rambeling on about things that I had already researched. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE HERE WITH BRAINS AFTER ALL!!!. THANK YOU
 
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