@@TyMarlowe-wl3ng it means a lot to me that its helpful. I appreciate the kind words!

If I am wrong, would you mind explaining why, and what you did to be so successful that differs from what I said?

This makes me feel very good about myself lol. Thank you!

@@lucasadams102 as you should

That was interesting, I’ve never thought twice about hauling snow. We just shut down and do maint in the winter so I’ve never thought of billing it. I think Lucile to the Fairview loop snow dump (if thats what I saw on the map) is a 20 min round if you’re hauling at night.. 30 EASY if you’re dealing with traffic. I’ve also never seen someone factor volume that way. I’ve always done LxWxH/27 all in feet then add a shrink/waste percentage over that… Good video Cameron!

And yet you still watched the video for his knowledge because you don't have it 😅😅😅

@@bndwoodlands775 If i had a dollar for every time someone talked shit about my trying to help people, while they did exactly 0 to help others, I wouldnt have to be in the dirt business anymore lol

@gravelboss907 😅😅😅...thanks for the video

You must not have understood. That’s 85$ per hr for JUST overhead and cost. There is always a percentage of profit so you can stay in business and grow.

Im aware i never responded to this, nkr your fb message from a year ago. I apologize. This question does pop into my mind from time to time so I figured I should answer. A big plight in the trucking industry is charging a rate because everyone else charges that. If you get to the bottom of it, its based purely off of “I charge this because everyone else does” According to the industry, price increase is only justified when fuel is up, and a cost decrease only happens when you are trying to tank the market or steal work. No other business operates this way. The way business is supposed to work, if you want a healthy, sustainable, and growing business, is to formulate your own prices, based off of your own costs and goals, and then sell on value brought to the customer. Sometimes that value you bring is that you are the cheapest. Sometimes its because you have the best customer service Sometimes the value is because you offer a specialized product. What ever it is, you still need to operate with YOUR costs and ideal profit margin, to run an effective business. We all know that 5 yd trucks dont cost half to buy or operate just because they haul half the material, but if 90% of your orders are 5 yds and under, why does the customer need to, in yiur words, pay the extra $20 for the bigger truck? Its important to note that when i owned this truck, i wasnt hauling large volumes for contractors, it was just used for my own little dirt jobs as well as home owner deliveries. For 3 years, I completely owned the homeowner market due to the ecomm side, insane customer service, and being able to arbitrage price discrepancies between pits. The customer felt as if i valued them, and they knew they were paying for for the better and way easier service. People wanted low hassle ordering, fixed prices, and stellar service. This is not found in most places in the valley or anchorage, and where it is, the business offering it are terrible at promoting it, leaving the customer without knowing they have the option, being forced to hire a company whos only value is price, at the cost of service. I guess Ill end with this. If I can charge more than my competition, and still steal all their customers, then maybe its a them problem, not a me problem. If my price didnt match my value, I would go out of business. You see this exactly happening in real time this summer as people have reduced spending. Last year I had 1100 orders. This year I only had 450. Id imagine a similar number of customers order, but they started price shopping more. They decided it was more valuable to them, to pay a lower price and deal with potentially worse service, than to pay a higher price and get better service. Its the customers right to choose exactly how they spend all their money. People vote with their dollars. Watch how they spend and do the thing you need to do to capture the money flow. P.s. we need to go snag a bite and converse all things gravel!

@@gravelboss907 I’m for that (chow) and I hope that question didn’t come off the wrong way. I’m glad you’re doing well!

Work for them and yourself. Then your truck breaks less, and you always have other income with the option to expand on the side if it becomes valuable

Colorradddoooooo!!!! What’s good man? Happy to help 😎🤙🏽

Thank you for the support! New videos in this series coming soon!

I love to hear that! Happy to help in any way I can :)

Thank you sir!

“Per push” is the term for “each visit” The $750 a season came from $50 per push, times our annual average snow falls of 15 per year. For the number of accounts: we manage 30-60 accounts per truck (obviously depending on size) That takes us about 14 hours of plowing per snow fall.

That’s what I wanna know I estimate if a 7-8yd truck is making 2500-3000 a week is a good week avg 120-150x 5 working days to the truck is good plus whatever the material cost added on top of your fee

Well said Dave! Are you increasing your rates for the 22-23 season?

Add profit on every aspect of the job including the rental, don’t do what I did and call for a quote and them be like “oh that rents for $460/day” get them to give you a quote w tax and all then add 10-30% profit for you

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