I’m going on the 10th year in trucking and both experienced and inexperienced people can learn a lot from this guy. Listen to him, he’s honest and transparent about what’s going on in the industry

@jbaru648

Жыл бұрын

Yes over 90 percent of these cargo van, trucking KZread gurus are lying about how much they make

@TomSmith-sr2br

Жыл бұрын

@@jbaru648 Is this the same way ?

@JordanGmt

Жыл бұрын

That's true I'm going in my 13th year in trucking and this guy definitely has clarity. Some of the things he said not only applies to cargo vans but also box trucks and semi trucks as well.

@sasquatchrosefarts

Жыл бұрын

Wrong, ignore every single word this man says. He stops in the middle of the video and claims that people who talk about expenses are diminishing the accomplishment of a driver. Expenses are critical, and directly related to success. This man is disabled.

@sentra2skyline141

Жыл бұрын

@@sasquatchrosefartswtf

Geezer, you're not doing bad at all! One of the takeaways from your video is that you're making decent money, and you're home every night. I look forward to seeing the journey.

As a guy less than a year away from retirement, I’m looking for a gig to keep me busy and focused. In my engineering field, I could contract and do well. But I don’t WANT to work 40 plus hours a week. I want something part time on MY time. I’ve just started investigating what I might do…but channels like yours do a real service for a guy like me. Thanks a lot.

@steveoreno517

2 ай бұрын

@Hard_7_Iron I'm in the same situation, did you end up finding something that worked?

Sounds like you're going about this in a very professional manner . Hope you get that 7000 to 10,000 a month range . Always root for the small independent business man as that's what I am .

@lifeafternarcissism

10 ай бұрын

Yaaaaas, I’ve been thinking about starting a cargo van 🚐 business

@TC.._

8 ай бұрын

Me too.

@cbfrmcrystalave

2 ай бұрын

With that mindset you got rooting for small businesses your gonna win in life ❤

You should temporarily work with a company to learn the ins and outs of the expediting industry. Then decide if you can navigate from there.

good job less miles more money iam a class 8 driver 38yrs owned 3 truck your business will run you or you will run your business keep going always know your cost per mile

LOL. I love your straight forward, no nonsense content. And your sense of humor. Thx for the great info.

As an ex business owner, profits and losses have to be done every, week, you'll get tax breaks on must loses and expenses on running the business, you must watch your overhead, you are doing well on this by doing the work yourselves, princesa including 😀 ,great job and thanks.

I appreciate you being honest about the business. Everybody make it seems so easy. But just like you said it depends on where you live as to say how much loads are out there

Soon as I heard you say expenses are nothing more than a way to reduce your taxable income, I was like, yeah, this guy knows what he's talking about 😊 good info, great video.

@tcwaterdrill

6 ай бұрын

Be careful, my dad worked for himself for about 20 years between 30 and 50 years of age., reducing his taxes and SS payments as much as he could legally because of the cost of being your own boss. At 51 he went and worked for a company full time. At 65 he retired only to find out how much that 20 years working for himself paying in the lease he had to in taxes and SS tax. That 20 years cost him dearly when it came time to retire and draw Social Security. The number of hours he had to put in per week to feed us, his family and keep everything running was way less than the 40 hours he worked for the other company in the end and he still ended up with more time for use and less headaches.

Unrelated but I love that you called your wife/girlfriend the queen of your life. Im definitely calling my wife that from now on.

Keep going geezer. Do YOUR business YOUR way but also take some time to investigate input from others. Learn from your mistakes and move forward but don't give up and you will (continue to) be successful. Let people know in your videos you are reporting what you are doing, what works for you, how things are going, and that you are not telling anyone how to run their business. If your business works for you (and your Queen) then that's what matters. Being at home every night is priceless, can't put a $ figure on that one.

grandfather recently gave me his 2008 Ford econoline 5.2 V8. I'm a university of South Carolina grad, sill located in the downtown columbia area. Would love to meet up for a drink and get some advice from you. Currently i work in IT, however i don't really believe in free time. I'm trying to use all my off days to do runs, Want to grow as many streams of income as possible this year. I predict a 2008 like economy coming soon, i want to be ready and stable when it comes.

I enjoyed your honesty so many talk up the transport industry which has cause a flooded market of hopes and dreams.. it's not a get rich quick type of life but I have done well the last 3 years with hard work and dedication

There is 'stuff' to learn when 'cut-throating' on these bid boards. I'm sure there are some drivers bidding away without a clear understanding how this works. And it's quite simple. The closer you live to a shipper, the cheaper your bid. And vice versa. You have to take into account dead/head miles, m.p.g. and the cost per gallon to make this work in your favor. Gig is making it work for him. Thanks for sharing!!!

As a truck driver who saw this video in my fyp. My best advice is to build relationships with shippers. All the carriers do it and charge more than any load board will pay. Load boards may have had 2-3 people take cuts off before posted. Most local drivers make around 1500 a week local while also working 12 hours an day. You are doing better than company drivers. Most businesses have 80% fail rate within 1st 3 years. Slow steady growth is best.

Thank you for this video. I’m retired (relatively young - 55) and looking for something to do that also makes me additional income (no one wants to lose money). Having a review of the business as realistic as this one is priceless, especially for a brand new person.

@WhyJesusSaid

9 ай бұрын

This is where I’m at as well. Looking at this as 2nd career to do something

You are a breath of fresh air! Great content that I've been looking for...

Just keep going on this journey!!!!! I’m working so hard to have my own Cargo van

Dude… you have a awesome radio voice 👍… I hope you have a podcast 👍

I love these more realistic and practical videos. Very informative. I have every intention to start out as a part time owner operator.

Danggg…. I really love this guy! So cool, calm and straight forward!!! Feels like a long time friend talking to me! And I sooo appreciate that! Gig Geezer, THANK YOUUU!!!!

Keep working hard & smart. Being frugal & not giving your service away is smart. Ignore the people that constantly try to tear you down.

"The queen in my life." That's a great way to put it.

Thanks for putting these out. I am researching to give this business a go and have no idea how to go about it. (I'm pretty much a geezer too). Subbed.

I'm a new subscriber and I want to state that I really appreciate your honesty and transparency brother.

Excellent video, thank you for taking the time to share this real world info!

as a person totally new and trying to get into the cargo van game these videos help alot ty and god bless keep up the amazing videos with great info

Good stuff thank you for keeping it real. I’m looking at the same time I need to be home nights as well so appreciate what you shared. I’m following

I'm looking to pick up some vans, been looking for those real numbers. Seems to be hard to come by. Just found you. Looking forward to listen to your experiences and opinions. I'm looking to start a business starting with vans. Don't change nothing man, perfect delivery.

I’m happy I found this video!. Thank you !. You just gained a subscription for sure!. Keep up the fantastic work and I hope you prosper and win big!. Peace and love.

This is very helpful brother. I’m definitely gonna say a prayer for you and your family that you all prosper. Thank you for sharing.

1600 local is not bad at all in this environment. Keep pushin🔥

Some good information. My advice, I heard you say there's not a lot of opportunities for vans in your area. Try going on your load board and look for loads under box trucks, give them a call and ask if that load can fit in a your type of van. From my experience, when they book loads for a box truck, it's not even enough to fill a van. Just make sure you know the measurements of the space in the back. Hope this helps. Good luck out there

GenX -- Fuck Around and Find Out! Love the real talk Bruh. Oakland Yay Area sending that Cali Love.

I feel like this man is honest. Great content.

Great video! Glad I sold my van 🎉 and made profit while prices are high

Thank you so much, you are honest and transparent, no doubt.

New Subscriber here. Thanks to your videos.

Great information! Thanks for going into detail, and the insight.....

thank you for this fair and honest take. found this very informative buddy. you got my ear now, sub'd!

Get your own authority and hustle that's the only advice I can give besides exploring all options because you're working for self now, so you give yourself overtime as needed

Thank you Bro, you seems very honest,and I appreciate that. I am a lady, just brought a van and would love to start getting some loads. Just watching videos but need to start. Be safe

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Very well spoken and laid out video. Class A driver for 20 years considering getting a Ford Transit and doing the same as you.

@Lyudtaru

Жыл бұрын

How much can you make? Is it worth it?

Thanks, for sharing your experience with such an honesty!

My grandfather was a bug truk driver his career for a liquor company, after he retired from thst he always kept a Chevy Cargo Van. 3-4 different business year round. Making money even after retirement they showed my what its going to take. I got a lot of work to do.

I have been driving 26 years. On the road and local, I'm Ready for the new For a new gig.

I appreciate the information Geezer! This is a ton of help

dude i think your doing great keep at it AND your home every night!.. ease into the week-long trips and you will be doing great !!! i worked with barrett directline out of little rock they paid well and i owned my own van i would still be with them had my hip not gone out id check them out very fair

@giggeezer

Жыл бұрын

I'm doing what I'm doing with cobalt and titanium in my left hip. I'm not incline to doing those week-plus trips.

@Lex-gu5el

Жыл бұрын

The metal should make u work longer. We all just have bones. And u should be grateful for the opportunity 🙏. So many 'better' Men are doing worse.

I’m looking for a side hustle too but , I can assure you from a person who got out of the landscaping business because of overhead, if you are anywhere near the word “bid”, you aren’t going to make any money. The rule for bidding is that you’re willing to do it for less than anyone else

Great video. Great information. With people under bidding loads eventually, they’ll be out of the business once they have a breakdown or any extra added expenses to their vehicle.

SUBSCRIBED 🤝🏻..been OTR with dispatchers for about 3 months now I’m a bit worn out.want to do local be home with family every night but not sure where to head towards because I live in Florida and from my experience Florida is bad when it comes to rate per mile..but once I heal from my ankle injury I’m giving it my all 💪🏻

You don’t have to go under there company. There are dispatcher I talk to that encourages you to have multiple companies up under your belt so that you have work daily. Local, regional and OTR. She told me to have different opinions for work. No force dispatch! You don’t have to put money down. Title 15 usc 1662b and 15 usc 1605 when you do a credit transaction cash is not involved. Please look it up king. Good content new sub!

Very good and informative video! I haven't secured a van yet, but will soon. This video definitely helps! Thank you!

As a former semi owner op, I would add that in semis, the public load boards are full of mostly bottom-of-the-barrel cheap freight nobody wants, sprinkled with halfway decent scraps from fleet contract overflows. The main use is for finding backhauls, or maybe as LTL with multiple loads in one vehicle at the same time, which is tough to set up. The money is in finding a good company with specialized contracts, or in landing your own regular contract as an owner op. Basic 53’ spotmarket dryvan freight (“dog food and toiletpaper” as they say in the industry) is not going to build a retirement for a one-truck owner op. The retirement money is in building a fleet of 5+ to 10+, or again, some kind of specialized freight. Or ideally, both. Translating that concept into cargovans, you’d either want to get into something specialized (such as DOT regulated, hazmat, medical, anything higher up than “regular-guy-with-a-regular-van”), or else build a fleet - ideally a specialized fleet, anything above the basic entry level. As an owner op, offer some kind of extra service. You can start super easy by always staying tucked in and wearing a safety vest. Don’t worry if nobody at the pickup is wearing one. If you’re the safest guy in the building, that right there can be a leg up above the basic level, at least in the eyes of the people who matter to your business and decide which cargo van to hire. 😃👍

@SZJA

7 ай бұрын

Not even worth being an owner operator since the big boys are putting most of them out of business. The new ones and even the older ones with 5+ fleet are getting killed since the megas can take hits on shitty loads and the hits aren't even bad since they have drivers everywhere. Industry is changing being an owner op is 90% guaranteed to fail.

@meminustherandomgooglenumbers

7 ай бұрын

@@SZJA Yup I got run out of business despite basically zero living expenses. Working 60-70 hours per week, no rent, no mortgage, no spouse, no dependents, no commute. All I had to pay for was a storage locker and groceries, but I still couldn’t even stay afloat. Something isn’t right. 😡

@SZJA

7 ай бұрын

@@meminustherandomgooglenumbers it's pretty sad buy this is the Era of big companies completely taking over the little guys in every industry it seems

@judiarvay1146

Ай бұрын

Amen! Expenses are good they serve as wonderful deductions!

I appreciate the time you take to break this down because dates and numbers don't lie

Appreciate your video and your time Sir

Thank you so much for this content, I’m always watching because you explained it so well. I just start my LLC now looking for a cargo van thank tou

Thanks for being honest and transparent

I have listened to your entire content . Here is my opinion (2cent) you are doing great and you have figured out a lot about the gig business. Well you sure have given me quit a lot of info that makes sense. Keep moving forward on your own. I believe you got this. Be blessed

@giggeezer

7 ай бұрын

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I've driven a lot of Lyft and Uber. The things you're talking about shows how much the overlap is. Can't take those dead miles for long trips where you're not gonna get anything back. It's a roll of the dice at best, total waste of time at worst. They tried to get me to drive someone from downtown Chicago to Milwaukee, 3 hour/184 mile round trip for $80 ($0.44 a mile - one way would be almost a dollar a mile). They were gonna charge the rider $280. I tried to contact the rider to work out a deal, because yeah, that's only $26/hr round trip, minus gas (prob about $30). That'd be $50 for a 3 hour 184 mile ride--aka H3LL NAW. Better to take the rides within your market, even if they're shorter, because you won't have as much dead mileage, if any at all. I try to explain ti to guys and they're like, "IT'S GUARANTEED MONEY!" Yeah, but you can't be driving a vehicle you probably financed or rented, pulling in $16/hr and $0.27/mile.

Good content, I got my DOT physical today and passed, getting closer to being ready to drive.

May be the best vid on the topic. I head out monday. See you out there.

I've got an older cargo van, and I'm not far away- right outside Aiken. Just a few days ago I started watching everything I can. Appreciate your information! Hope you have continuing success!

@giggeezer

Жыл бұрын

E-mail me. I may have some gigs to discuss with you.

@terryeley6218

Жыл бұрын

Great! What's your email address?

You only have been in the business for two months. Concentrate on being on time and being friendly. Someone will eventually point you in the right direction

Great content 🔥🔥 Keep pushing my brother ❤

I appreciate your effort to explain every single detail keep up 👍🏻 cheers from LA

@giggeezer

Жыл бұрын

I once lived there decades ago.

Highly recommend keeping stats so you can figure out your cost per mile. You must know your numbers so you can know when a load just isn’t worth it. You have to have maintenance costs, profit, and pay yourself and hopefully reinvest money towards your business.

@mediaoutlook3803

Жыл бұрын

Seems like your business is booming...

@jaygee6763

Жыл бұрын

​@@mediaoutlook3803seems like yours is too

I just happened to see this video on my youtube feed. Coincidentally, I am in the process of looking for something closer to self employed. Although I would love to do what you are I don't think, many thanks to the information you have provided in just this video, it would work for me in the area I live. Your video is much appreciated and I wish you the best of luc attaining your goal!

I’m starting new and I needed this.. thanks

You gotta be willing to hustle.... Also your main goal shouldn't be brokers, dispatchers, or even gigs... Your goal should be working with customers directly... Saving them money and putting more in your pocket while building a partnership... Ive been a broker for 7 years and know the ins/outs of the industry and ill be jumping into a Cargo van within the next few months. Also look into medical and auto parts transport locally... Big big business. If you want to go over the road make sure your van is set up to do so... Over the road can get expensive in smaller costs you take for granted sleeping at home.

Super informative keep posting keep striving

Loved the segment! I’m looking into driving but, do a lot of research first before I make up my mind. These numbers help out. Thank you.

Thanks for the insight on this, I couldn’t decide between a box truck or a cargo van. I went with a 24ft box truck but I look forward to seeing how you do with the cargo van this year.

@richkeegan1264

Жыл бұрын

Do you make videos

@jaimesolis8362

Жыл бұрын

Getting back in the game. I'm leaning towards another Van.

@allthings73hs1yf

10 ай бұрын

How is the box truck going? Most dispatchers tell me many more loads in box truck

What a great and informative video. As someone looking to start out studying this business I appreciate it. I live in a little town in NC about 1h30 from Chattanooga, TN. Is it much worse to find loads because I live in a small town? I was thinking that there couldn't be many options to work with cargo van because I live in Murphy, NC. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Your payment on the van and insurance are fixed costs. All other expenses are tied to the miles driven - especially gas. As long as you are covering your fixed nut anything after that is mostly about taking loads that fit your criteria for when you want to drive and rate.

Fam! You just dropped a whole bag of jewels at my feet! Wow. I am right there with you but in a 2019 Sprinter 144" in California which means $$$ 😂 Keep it movin 🖤

@pdavis4436

6 ай бұрын

Man I looked up sprinter vans in California it seems like they can make a lot of money in from California but after military ended up staying in Texas but wanting to Get back

You can also do Medical Courier, big $

I appreciate you. I’m contemplating getting a van.

Great, Great JOB! I Love your honesty and transparency. Thank you for that. My wife and I have recently began our process to become Independent Cargo Van Couriers. So thank you again, for giving us a tangible blueprint to get our business on the road. Looking forward to gleaning more of your experience and insight. Via your KZread vids.

Great video and info👍🏾

You remind me of my cousin and I love ya information and the delivery of it. Continue being great

@giggeezer

6 ай бұрын

Funny thing for me is that none of my surviving cousins, well, maybe one, would make any attribution of me for anything.

Just going to add to what you're doing... I own a tractor trailer and my own trucking company and am thinking about adding a cargo van to my company to supplement the company's cash flow when the bigtruck is parked... I've done cargo van work before years ago as a driver for a fleet owner with Panther... The key to making more money is to try and cut out the middle man when you can... I'd say get some business cards made up with your basic information and try to make contact with a logistics manager at some of the places you've done loads for so you can communicate with them on future orders...I know that sounds easier than it looks, but it can pay off to have local businesses work directly with a local to move their orders versus those shippers calling up some app company to place their shipment in some que... I like the videos by the way...

so Unc stays local and is happy with making $100 a day. nothing wrong with that. i can respect it.

@giggeezer

Жыл бұрын

Who makes $100 a day?

nice thanks on your take and honesty

You sir made me a subscriber. I just got in the business and did completed the LLC and DOT, BOC3, UCR as of yesterday and now shopping for insurance but I hold up on purchasing a van as I am looking at the rates and the carriers' choices to contract with them. I might go back to 9-5 to save some money and do the cargo van as passive income and chose rental since purchasing and leasing are a bit much due to the current rates and the markets. What is your thought on that? Still doing research and learning everything I can before I fully dive in...

I’m here in cola as well and interested in the cargo van business. Thanks for the honest review!

Thx for sharing, great content and insight into the business 👍

Great Video G.

Great video thanks for sharing your insights on this business I’m a ten year trucker looking to scale way down and be local

Congratulations 🎉 I hope everything goes the way you want!!

Well done young Man ,this Honest review and million thanks. Many blessings for showing us the game. Thanks sir from Las Vegas

1st time viewer. Great content.

Appreciate your video, very insightful.

Appreciate ya keep the vids coming

Thanks for being transparent

Good job geezer.

Also the size of cargo van you have will get you better loads.

Great content I’m starting out in South Carolina as well