What minimum truck-usage frequency does the speaker recommend before buying a truck?

Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Equipment.. The Silent Killer of Small Business

11 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Mike Andes (YouTube, March 11, 2025) warns that equipment can silently kill small businesses by eroding profit margins and efficiency when purchased for appearances rather than need. He urges business owners to prioritize profit margins, bank balance, and operational efficiency over showy metrics (like number of trucks or employees). Concrete advice: do not buy a truck unless it will be used at least four days a week; avoid keeping equipment used only monthly or sporadically; buy equipment only when you actually need it, not to satisfy ego or impress others.

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Use at least four days a week.

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The true measure of success is your profit margins, your bank balance and efficiency. The problem with this in order to validate ourselves and appear successful, we usually just look at numbers of trucks and employees. And so we buy more trucks and we hire more people in order to look good in front of other people. And we do that to prove something to others, many of whom doubted us in the past. You should not buy a truck unless it will be used at least four days a week. And so if you're going to use a piece of equipment once a month, like an excavator, if you're going to use a truck for maybe one or two times a month or one time a week, it's not worth keeping it. Buy more trucks and buy more equipment when you need them. Don't make purchases because of your ego.