How to make money with a Dodge Diesel?

[rmrc]

I have this posted in the 'General Diesel Tpoics' forum, but I'd like maximum exposure to hopefully get as many ideas as possible.



Just thought I'd throw this question out to the membership and see if one of you can come up with a suggestion.



I hopefully plan to purchase my truch within the next couple of years. If I could come up with an idea to put her to use in some kind of small business, the possibility of finally owning my dream truck would be assured, and, the order date could possibily be sooner.



Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[jandtjil]

small business's

Greetings

Many furniture stores do not offer their own delivery service. Maybe you could seek them out, leave a business card with them and work with their clients to deliver their purchases. Possibly work out fees for disposal of old furniture as well. Get paid coming and going!

Same idea might apply to hardware/lumber stores/yards, although most do offer delivery.



A business I tried to get off the ground a few years ago was a hot tub rental business (tub is mounted on double axle trlr, with propane for heater, requiring only 20 amp 120v circuit from renting household to power the pumps). Insurance wouldn't touch it, and drawing up a rental contract freeing yourself from liability was more costly than I had imagined.



If you haven't done so, consider contacting the Small Business Administration in your area, they can help suggest ideas and get your dream moving forward. Good luck



JJ

 

[Royk]

In my area there are a lot of Amish mini-barn builders. Since the Amish don't drive they pay someone else to haul these things. Some of these "mini" barns are quite big to be hauling on the road. Sometimes I see as many as three smaller ones loaded on a long 5th wheel flatbed. I frequently see a silver 3500 CTD hauling them around my area.



-Roy

 

[Elk]

contact some of the rv manufacures about hauling and delivering rvs. I just got mine back from the factory and the driver had is dodge duelly a 2001 for only 11 months and had clocked in 170,000 miles so there must be a lot of work out there in that field. by the way he said he loved his truck and had not had a like of problems with it.

 

[TPCDrafting]

Here in Wyoming, the towns are spread out (I'm convinced wagon wheels had a 100 mile service life!) and the auto dealerships are relatively small. They hire guys with 1 tons to haul a few cars at a time from dealer to dealer. I've seen them with long goosenecks pulling 3 to 4 cars at a time. Seems less physically laborous than delivering furniture/appliances. Usually that includes getting it off the truck and installation. Depends on what kinds of distances you want to travel and how much work on each end you want to do. People here also hire out the shipping of their livestock although it's mostly big rigs, I've also seen guys with big stock trailers hauling horses, cows, sheep, etc. down the road behind their pickups. I've thought of the same thing, to offset the cost of the truck a bit. But I'm too busy working out of the house to be out enjoying my truck to that extent.

 

[Phil May]

Get a real job

My best advice is buy a real rig for a job and use your Dodge for play. Pick-up just don't have the durabilty for alot of the uses that everyone tries to use them for. The engine will outlast the rest of the truck by several times.

 

[bschmidt]

You may want to consider getting a pesticide liscense and then mount a decent sized tank sprayer in the back... Of course there are a lot of the like around, but if you marketed to strip malls I think you could make a killing... At least around by me, there are weeds all over the parking lots of supermarkets, K'marts, Walmarts and etc... Just a thought!

~Brandon