Author: That Mother Trucker

As a hotshot owner-operator, you spend most of your time on the road hauling loads from one destination to another. The majority of the miles you’ll be traveling will be on the U.S. Interstate System. How well do you know the various interstate highways in the United States? Here’s a list of the six longest U.S. interstates and what makes them unique. East-west interstates are even-numbered with the lowest starting in the south, while north-south interstates are odd-numbered, with numbers increasing from west to east. 1.) I-90: 3,085 Miles (Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts) I-90 is the longest interstate...

If you are on the hotshotting business, this type of situation may be familiar to you. You are excited to start hotshotting, and you buy a pickup truck. You got the vehicle. Now comes the bills — the loan payments. You tell yourself, “I will work double time in my hotshot business so I can cover my costs and my loans.” You do good, but still, expenses are winning over your income. You keep going and going, yet you are getting the same results: more money goes out than stays… Until the day you find yourself upside down with...

Hustle is the name of the game when it comes to hotshot trucking. No matter how experienced or brand new are you to the business, you have to hustle. Hustling is imperative to reach success in the hotshot industry. If you want to bring more money and value into your hotshot hustle, here are some tips that would help. 1. Be On Time In the hotshot industry, being on time can spell the difference between more money or less money. An hour could make a big difference between you making another thousand dollars. To make this happen, plan to...

What’s the most important thing in any business? There’s one way to succeed and one way to fail. The way to succeed is to know your numbers. The way to fail — is not to know your numbers. So it all comes down to a numbers game. You need to know all the costs of operating your hotshot trucking business. How much does it cost you to run your truck? If you don’t know your numbers, you have nothing to go off of. There’s no basis. Without your numbers, you have nothing because you don’t even know what to...