Business plans for Mulching

[elk land restoration]

Please send me a message about the t300. I am looking at one here in virginia. I would be interested in finding oyt more about it.

[Landwise]

Trust me on this...from experience...

NC is a little strange on requirements, and it can be very hard to find the right answers...

An f250, with a GVWR of #8800 lbs can tow a 7 ton trailer GVWR of #14,200 lbs with no CDL. YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE A CLASS A CLASSIFIED LICENSE, but not a CDL.

No matter what the tow vehicle weighs, if the trailer is over #10,000 you must have a class A License. If your combined GVW is over 26,001, you must have a Class A CDL.

Also, if your trailer has brakes or weighs over #4000, now it has to be inspected.

GCWR in NC can be purchased. It does not matter what the sticker in your door says. If you want to tow a #30,000 trailer with a Nissan Pickup, you can, as long as you purchase the right plates for your truck.

I pull a 10 ton gooseneck with my f250s, and it requires a Class A CDL (Which means that I have to have a DOT inspection), but I do not have to keep logs unless we drive over 150 air miles per day. Also, you must have a fuel sticker, but until you go over #50,000, you pay nothing for that sticker.

I have been round and round trying to get the right answers, and ended up calling the HP at a weigh station. I just happened to catch a Sargeant there that told me the answers, and where to find them.

[john_bud]

Originally Posted by Landwise

GCWR in NC can be purchased. It does not matter what the sticker in your door says. If you want to tow a #30,000 trailer with a Nissan Pickup, you can, as long as you purchase the right plates for your truck.

I pull a 10 ton gooseneck with my f250s, and it requires a Class A CDL.

I do wonder what happens if you cross state lines with either the Nissan (I know, it's a joke...) or more seriously your F250 and find yourself in a hard bottom state like WI?

The whole CDL / USDOT number thing makes my head spin and I understand the WI regs fairly well!

jb

[Landwise]

NC, as well as many other states use the Bridge formula to figure the weight you can move. As long as the state you are gong into uses the bridge formula, you should be ok.

[john_bud]

Originally Posted by Landwise

NC, as well as many other states use the Bridge formula to figure the weight you can move. As long as the state you are gong into uses the bridge formula, you should be ok.

It'd be my luck to only visit states that did not follow that!

As they say, if I had no bad luck....

jb

[dive2diver]

Landwise

Ok that makes more sense to me and goes along the lines of what the State Trooper told me as well. The CDL hand book is so vague on this issue and only refers to unless exept from CDL requirements and you cannot find that information in the hand book.

[rrinc]

The short answer - Check out YOUR local market. Not the guy in the next county. Develop your own business and niche market. You will do much better developing your own business if you do not assume that the guy driving the new truck with the new mulcher has all of the answers and is either charging too much or making millions.Undercutting other peoples prices,
Its bad for both of you.Evaluate the market first. Determine if there is enough work to sustain you.Figure you need to bring in 1% of your gross cost of your machine per day.Take whatever a dealer tells you avg life is and cut it by half. Then figure that every hour you run requires at least 10 minutes of service.It is not romantic, the ego feed will be very short and then reality sets in. In most cases , most people get a bunch of work in the beginning and then it quickly tapers off. Then you and everyone around you starts dropping prices until no one makes any money.