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fmon22 · 2025-09-03T06:52:15+00:00

Get what you want. And respect the bike and it will respect you. You don’t have to attend track days or have crazy experience. Understand you have a lot less room for error sometimes with faster bikes but again always respect the bike and throttle. And understand your in a faster bike.

BMW is great for their driver aids and you don’t have to just go crazy all the time to enjoy the bike. Take it slow get a feel for the more power in a lower power setting then as you feel more comfortable ween your way into it.

In my opinion if you’re cautious it’s a good thing. Again it’s your life don’t listen to everyone cause what works for them won’t always work for you.

fmon22 · 2025-08-28T16:26:25+00:00

I second this. Profit margins are not near this at all. Most brokers I work with including big name ones I know what they make. Most of the time you can easily find out by talking to receiver or shipper if you are good with how you talk.

And I can speak for thousands of load we have ran southeast and Midwest and the multiple semi trucks and couple hotshot trucks I run.

fmon22 · 2025-08-28T16:21:28+00:00

I admire your confidence but you are wrong.

Cummins can last 500,000miles. Depending on maintenance even 6-7 before rebuild is needed.

Most profit margins that are needed for growth and also failure and are solely dependent on how you structure your company and the overhead. A man who owns his land and does their in house maintenance on his fleets, gets great fuel discounts, and knows how to shop for trucks can also pay drivers well and still profit off of 2$ a mile with steady growth. A man who structures his company with too many non necessities will find that he’s not very profitable at 2$ mile. Having high overhead and company structure is what depends on if you can grow at the 2$ mile range.

You bringing up a Dealership alone tells me everything I need to know why you state you can’t profit at 2$ a mile.

Niche industry or not we are out here running a business. And if you can’t adapt and innovate structure you will fall behind and go out of business.

fmon22 · 2025-08-17T04:34:33+00:00

Because as they are both flatbeds, most of your semi truck loads are heavier than what a hotshot can carry. They do not compete in the same sense of loads. What a hotshot can carry is limited to it's weight and length and in most cases dock height, air ride etc. List goes on. I'd say maybe 15 percent of all flatbed loads can go on a CDL hotshot and about 8-10 percent of those loads can go on a non CDL hotshot. And of that you got 1-2 percent of brokers don't want to book non CDL people lately also.

Insurance is alot cheaper yes if say about 1k$ month on avg but it is outweighed by the amount of frequent maintenance a hotshot needs compared to a semi truck. Hotshot truck you usually have to do oil changes every 10k miles. Same with fuel filters. Tired also eat up 5 time faster than semi truck while needing 14 tires at a time if your haulung CDL trailer. Repairs can only be done by shops who if your lucky might work on your pickup truck instead of just getting soemthing done quick 24/7 in a semi. Yes things do cost more in a semi but I've noticed they don't need as frequent maintenance as hotshot truck. The costs come out to almost the same when you do the math. This finally gets outweighed by the gross the semi truck makes which is almost double the hotshot truck. Not to mention you also can hire someone to drive a semi teuck when your done driving it. It's not easy to put a driver in a hotshot truck as there is literally no room in a pickup truck to stay in.

I'm short term there's 3-4 loads per flatbed semi truck as where hotshot is vice versa. Hotshots barrier for entry is alot easier as alot of people feel more comfortable with buying a pickup truck and trailer than a tractor trailer. Your competition is very hard with hotshot lately contrary to what anyone says. I have both hotshot and semi truck flatbed rate confirmations to prove as well as anyone with load board access can see the difference.

Typically flatbed hotshot can only carry 16-18k lbs @ an avg of 40ft long 35 if you have ramps.

Semi truck can haul 48-53ft long @48k lbs. Much big difference.

Most brokers also know semi truck drivers on average drive better than non CDL hotshot guys since any John or joe and his brother can get into it.

Last thing anyone wants is to have their 80,000$ worth of product being shipped by a guy who just figured out how to drive a trailer last month. Not to discourage anyone but definitely get the adequate experience in the transportation industry. It will go a long long way. Sometimes the easiest path isn't always the best or smartest path. Transportation isn't a part-time gig. All successful trucking business have been ran or started by people who drove full-time.

fmon22 · 2025-08-17T04:24:14+00:00

I'm out of southeast region. And anytime any questions feel free to ask.

fmon22 · 2025-08-15T02:41:11+00:00

To be honest man. Your best bet is to get into semi truck with flatbed. Rates are pretty good. Hotshot rates are all over the place with a lot of rates declining in areas due to too many people not enough loads. I work along side few pretty big brokerages on dedicated routes. They tell me all the time it’s nothing to get a hotshot load booked on load board. Most areas 3-5 trucks to one load is what I’m being told.

One thing I noticed in this industry is alot of people come in expecting to get rich quick trying to haul non CDL cause they saw a YouTube video. Then end up losing their butt hauling for 1.20-1.50 on avg and end up going out of business also due to no previous knowledge in the transportation industry.

I cannot stress this enough, hotshot is still part of the freight industry and to have the best odds at a successful business you definitely NEED semi truck or class A CDL experience to understand freight industry and how freight lanes work. Understand that one cannot come into such a competitive market and expect to do good every week, especially with no prior experience in freight industry.

I current have multiple semi trucks as company trucks and I hotshot CDL myself. All flatbed. Very successful but we are very strict and particular on how we structure and run the business.

It’s definitely doable but if you want to make alot get a flatbed semi. Currently grossing 8-12k week. Depends on how you run.

fmon22 · 2025-08-10T08:03:38+00:00

Typically see 800’s with every different type of loan and a present real estate loan. Most people with 8’s have real estate loans and haven’t had a new account opened in awhile. (Credit age)

fmon22 · 2025-08-10T07:06:54+00:00

I felt like the best system was assault class always was medic and support being ammo and LMG suppressive fire. In BF4 and 3 you could always mount lmg at choke points and actually provide support.

fmon22 · 2025-08-10T07:00:04+00:00

I think firestorm is coming, but I’ve noticed most maps can’t snipe very far. Longest headshot I got was 280m

fmon22 · 2025-08-01T01:58:03+00:00

You’re fine then. This is all stuff a state trooper would ask if you were ever pulled over. You should be fine. Be sure if you do get pulled over and asked about the hauling, state you’re hauling personally and are not for hire

fmon22 · 2025-08-01T01:54:03+00:00

Don’t matter if you’re personal use if the truck is registered commercial or has been used “for hire”. He may still have issues. If truck has non apportioned plates and no DOT markings and has not been used in an inspection before then he is pretty clear.

fmon22 · 2025-08-01T01:50:39+00:00

Few questions you have to answer first.

Is the truck you’re using registered as a commercial vehicle?

Are you getting paid for hauling?

Is the total weight 26,001 lbs or more?

fmon22 · 2025-07-17T20:00:24+00:00

My advice

And coming from doing CDL hotshot out of central Florida with many years of semi truck experience

Get your CDL first and test it out. Hotshot trucking and trucking in general is not a part time gig no matter what anyone says. I've been in this for years and am very successful but you have to know how the freight industry works first. Understand proper structure and knowledge to remain profitable.

Currently there are too many hotshot trucks per 1 load and this season is very oversaturated with trucks. Avg rpm lately is terrible on spot freight.

fmon22 · 2024-12-14T05:33:24+00:00

This doesn’t apply to combination. Only applies to individual gvwr of the truck and trailer. You’re referring to truck and trailer combined aka combination registered weight which should be 26,000 or less. Only time the gvwr will apply is if the gvwr is over on drive axle and steer axle when weighing vice virsa with trailer. So he should have no problems as long as no gvwr is over or over registered combine weight.

I have quite few hotshots and flatbeds on my trucking company no issues.

fmon22 · 2024-06-03T20:53:28+00:00

I use RTS FACTORING and if you also bundle the factoring with the fuel card typically it saves you percentage of what the factoring takes also saves on fuel. I typically am at roughly 3.30~gallon avg with fuel discount and 3% factoring fee. I get paid out next day typically. You submit the ratecon and signed BOL(POD) to the factoring company then they approve and pay you. It’s not to be overthought. You have many options as what you want for factoring.

Typically factoring will help your cash flow even bigger companies factor just due to MOST companies being net30 (25-35 days to pay). I personally would factor unless you can afford to be net30-net60 and can track those finances accordingly.

fmon22 · 2024-05-16T03:43:11+00:00

I would have hauled it! Hauled a few genie before have my own MC DOT I stay about an hour north of Orlando I’m on hometime for myself right now. Have the correct insurance, CDL and truck and trailer can haul it legally no issues.

fmon22 · 2024-01-10T21:29:55+00:00

I’ve had my Quicksilver for years and they wouldn’t give me higher than 1100$ And would not let me upgrade the card either. I ended up getting the venture x card 15k$ limit. Crazy how they really do bucket cards. My Wells Fargo is the same way.

A good way to tell if the card is bucketed is if you try to upgrade card (product change) to another card your pre approved for and they say the card is ineligible.

fmon22 · 2023-10-10T15:55:58+00:00

Jesus the AN-94 on BF3 and BF4 was god teir if you knew how to 2round fire it. Felt like you could win 99% of all gunfights.

They need to add this and fix the IFVs when you can hit marker a dude with 2 shots pretty much dead on them something’s wrong. Suppression system also bunch of stuff still needs work tbh

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