10 Great Businesses For a Pickup Truck Owner
Spruce up your pick-up truck and start turning it into a cash machine.
1. Building Supply Hauler: Most large building supply stores have delivery available, but if you live in a small town or if you have several small business type Hardware stores in your location this could be an easy 3-day a week type gig.
2. Sand, Sawdust, Firewood, Hay, Gravel, etc… Delivery Service: You can either pick up the customer and have you both pick up the product reducing your workload, or you can do it all yourself increasing your pay.
3. Mall Delivery Service: Small businesses in a Mall Complex can really benefit from this service. Offer 2-3 Days a week where you come to the Mall and pick-up pre-ordered groceries and deliver them to the paying customers. Really small businesses might not be able to afford this but if you hit up 10-15 businesses in a Mall, they can all chip in and cover your fees.
4. Appliance Repair Shop Pick-up/Delivery: You can make a pretty penny by simply picking up and delivering broken appliances to the repair shop. Most people will pay $10-$15 just to avoid having to do it themselves.
5. Economy Towing: Use your 1/2-Ton pickup and a basic tow cable to offer towing at a cheaper rate than tow-truck drivers offer. Make sure you have some sandbags and an emergency kit just in case. You can advertise in all local gas stations and pay phones. You can really increase your profits if you also learn to pick vehicle locks.
6. Parts Car Tower: If you own a Licensed Car Trailer you can work with the local junkyards to offer a Project/Parts Car towing service. Offer it at much less than a Tow-Truck would charge and you're guaranteed business all year round.
7. Junk Pick-Up/Attic Clean Out: This job offers double the benefit. You pick up peoples junk for them and offer to take it to the dump for a fee, but you also get to sort through the junk and see if there's anything of value you could sell on eBay or at a Garage Sale.
8. ATV/Snowmobile/Motorbike Delivery: Some people own these products but have no legal way to transport them. That's where you come in, for a small fee you offer to deliver and pick up the customers toys. They pay for gas and your fee, and also provide their own transportation to and from the delivery spot. Why do they provide their own transportation, you don't want to stay with them all day, and if somebody gets hurt how will they get to a hospital.
9. Small moving company: You can offer cheap and efficient moving service. The customer pays for gas, lunch, and an hourly fee. Just make sure you're fit enough to move for 8 hours straight.
10. Garage Sale Delivery: Visit all the people having Garage Sales on a Saturday and give them a flier explaining that you pick up and deliver large/heavy items for a fee. The customer pays the fee, you deliver the goods, and it’s a nice way to make $100 on a Saturday morning.
