Two people break down the economics of buying a heavy duty truck and trailer to haul tires yourself. They walk through the costs, what you can charge per load, and why handling disposal in-house grows your tire business faster.
I'm about to show you how to make a minimum of an extra $60,000 or more per year.
All right, first you're going to want to go get you a 2500 or a 3500 heavy duty truck. You can get them in either gas or diesel. I recommend diesel because they're going to pull a lot better.
All right, next you're going to go.
Get you one of these big old trailers right here. And if you don't own a tire company, let me show you exactly what to charge. So for your smaller passenger car tires, you're going to charge about $3.
To dispose of them.
And then your bigger stuff, like your 35, 33s, you're going to charge $5 to dispose of. Right? Now, if you own a tire company, you're going to charge a minimum of $5 a tire to dispose of tires. And that's going to pay for this trailer in the first month or two. And then you make your monthly payments on this and it's going to pay for that. Now that trailer.
I got is about $9,000. And if you go out there and buy you a new truck, I recommend a new one. Don't get a used one. You're going to pay right around 12, $1300 a month, depending on your credit. So a lot of tire stores, they pay somebody else to haul their tires off. Me, I choose to do it in house because we get to actually keep the money. We can use that money to help the company grow and, and also give our guys bonuses and pay more to our guys.
