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[QUOTE="TrailerHauler, post: 370399, member: 144"] Well put, this isn't something nearly as easy to become involved in as a lot of folks on these forums will make it sound. If you have a SRW superduty, your already at a huge dis advantage in my opinion. To make money moving boats or cars you need to be able to move a few at a time. That way since a lot of cars seem to pay $1 per mile, if you can move three of those $1 per mile cars now your making $3 per loaded mile. Three cars, and a trailer will probably be a little much for a single rear wheel superduty. Three cars on a wedge, or a 45' lowboy with flip outs behind a one ton dually is probably the bare minimum. Lots of people haul cars with wedge style trailers behind one ton duallys and don't have to many problems, but like I said that's the bare minimum tow vehicle in my book. And that dually is going to get worked pretty hard, and go through wear parts faster than normal. Now if your going to be moving oilfield equipment or freight and get yourself into something like a 40' deckover gooseneck, again pulling that with a one ton dually is pushing the limits of the truck. Most 40' deckover goosenecks weight upwards of 9,000#'s by themselves, and with the weight of the truck your already around 18k#. Like Jason said, a med. duty truck, or even a single axle tractor (since the tractors are cheaper to purchase sometimes) is the ideal tow vehicle for hotshotting freight or cars. However most people use a 450, or 550 size truck and do just fine. And since truck cost is always a factor, I don't see any reason a 550 wouldn't do most hotshot work and stay within or near the limits of the truck. That is if someone was going to be shopping for a vehicle to get into this line of work. [/QUOTE]
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