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

Fancy trucks inflate ego not profits

27 Mar 2023 · 0 min

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This YouTube video (creator: Mike Andes, uploaded March 27, 2023) argues that service businesses should prioritize cost-effective fleet choices over luxury vehicles. The speaker uses an HVAC company example with 22 service trucks and asks rhetorically whether one would buy $85,000 Raptors for such work, recommending instead the cheapest pickup that can carry a toolbox and reach jobs; upgrades are possible later as profits grow.

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March 27, 2023

Mike Andes

Let's say you're running a heating and air company and you have 22 trucks calling on people fixing their heating and air. Okay. Do you buy $85,000 Raptors for your service trucks? Well, crap, no, of course you don't. You buy the least possible pickup that you can put a toolbox on, and that will get to the job and get the job done. Now, as you make more money, can you upgrade your your fleet and drive better and better trucks? Sure.