When you see this topic, don’t think that running most trucks is very profitable now. That was in the past few years. In recent years, it has been much harder to make money for long-distance freight transport. Some people can’t make money after a year. Make money and lose money.

We here buy most trucks to transport coal over long distances. In the past few years, the coal situation was good, freight rates were high, and there were still few vehicles. Indeed, many car owners made money. Generally speaking, in the past few years, In 2008, I made money from a car after running it for two years. I saw some people making money, and many people also paid down payments to buy most of the trucks for transportation, and there were quite a few who lost money.

In recent years, most trucks have been engaged in long-distance transportation, which is difficult to do for three reasons: First, due to the pressure of the environmental protection situation, many small businesses have stopped production, resulting in much less work; second, there are too many trucks. The competition has become fierce, so the freight cannot go up; thirdly, the salary of truck drivers is now high. In the past, the salary of hiring a driver was more than 5,000, but now it is more than 10,000.

If you see someone who used to drive most trucks, bought a house and a small car in the city, and now you are blindly buying a car for transportation, you really need to think about it carefully.

Let me answer it for you.

Those who drive semi-trailers are generally long-distance drivers, and A license is required. You can basically earn around 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a month.

There are about 3,000 semi-trailers in our town, and they are distributed all over the country.

Some people start out as their own drivers. Later, when they make money, they buy a semi-trailer and become their own boss. Drivers who have been driving for a long time, are skilled, and have a stable supply of goods basically have a house in the city, and luxury cars are not included. Basically, buying a private car costs hundreds of thousands or two hundred thousand.

I know a boss who now owns more than 30 semi-trailers. He no longer drives the trucks himself. He just sits in the office every day and contacts the business.

The derived industry , the driver's daily salary is about 300, and there are also expenses for meals and rest.

The salary is quite high, but driving a long-distance semi-trailer is also risky. I know several people who have had accidents.

Nowadays, the threshold for running a large truck is relatively low, so many people have joined in. The online quotations for logistics and distribution are even lower than those of each other. This not only disrupts the market for large trucks, but also causes everyone to lose money. money. If there is a stable supply of goods, it would be good to run a large truck.

I used to have a car, and it was really profitable to have some supplies. That’s no longer possible. The advent of mobile phone shipments, etc., has disrupted the freight market. As soon as the cargo owner sends the cargo order online, there will immediately be people rushing to do it. Many return buses can be used as long as the fuel is enough, resulting in low prices! Those who have a low threshold for freight transportation can do it if they have a certificate. If there are more people doing it, there will be a situation where there are less goods and more trucks. What should we do? Compare prices and services. If you make a little money, you can do it. If the price is low, you have to help people unload the goods! Trucks are constantly being updated, and the horsepower of the trucks is getting bigger and bigger. A 4.2-meter small truck can pull more than ten tons of cargo, and it can be pulled as long as it can be loaded. Small trucks have no work to do, but they have to compete with larger trucks, and so on. A 9.6-meter dry semi-trailer live. There are more violations, there are more and more restricted areas in the city, and you have to be careful when overtaking at high speeds. There are fines everywhere! There are very few people who can make a lot of money running trucks

I also ran a truck for a while a few years ago. It was a 9.6-meter box truck. Let’s talk about some of my experiences

< p>When I first started running a truck, I was mainly responsible for transporting some hotel disposable items. At that time, we were running from Yangzhou to Shanghai, and Yangzhou loaded the goods and delivered them to every hotel in Shanghai.

A truck can hold about 300-400 pieces of goods, and each item was paid 10 yuan at that time. The gross profit for a single trip was about 3,500 yuan, and the sports car loaded the goods and drove back and forth all day and night! Returned goods usually only cost RMB 1,800

It was really easy to make money at that time. A driver and a loader, just two people, could make a net profit of about 3,000 yuan a day and a night. There is almost no leisure time and no time for the truck to be empty

But it is a kind of suffering that ordinary people cannot endure. One truck has hundreds of items, loaded during the day, arrived in Shanghai in the middle of the night, and then delivered to one hotel after another. , it will be delivered to about 20-30 homes. Many hotels do not allow you to ride on the passenger elevators, so you have to climb the stairs. One piece of goods is about 30 kilograms. It will be almost three or four o'clock in the morning when everything is finished. The most brutal time was when I moved and drove for 2 days and a night without closing my eyes!

To be honest, this industry is about making money at the expense of your life.

But sports cars are really hard to run now. . . The price is transparent, if the price is too low, if you don’t take advantage, someone else will.

You can’t afford a sports car even if you starve to death. The effort and reward are generally equal. As long as you are willing to endure hardship, life will not be bad. . . .

An incident happened recently

A large truck was overloaded and crushed a viaduct. Of course, this incident had not happened when this issue was raised.

According to the report*** there were two large trucks, one pulling 5 rolls and the other pulling 6 rolls

Each roll of steel is nearly 27 or 28 tons of steel. It weighs almost 300 tons. It is understood that the weight limit of such a large truck is 38.5 tons, which is several times higher.

It is not recommended to run long-distance trucks now

According to an article on the Truck Home Forum "Freight rates have dropped again and again, and drivers' monthly profits have dropped to two to three thousand yuan"

pointed out, “Even in areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, where the logistics and transportation industry is developed and there are many logistics goods sources, the monthly income of some individual heavy truck drivers may not reach 5,000 yuan, and some drivers can only earn 2,000 yuan a month. Three thousand yuan.

In addition to this increasingly difficult situation, there are also high tolls for large trucks and rising gas prices.

Truck drivers mainly make money. The money is for overloading. Generally speaking, the vehicle weight limit is 15 tons, and in the eyes of drivers, the weight limit is 20 tons. However, after the Wuxi viaduct incident, overloading has become more stringent in various places, and the fines have become heavier.

It is not suitable for newcomers to enter the long-distance truck industry at this time.

The people who made money were in the past.

A relative of mine used to run a large truck. He told me that he used to go back and forth. After running more than a thousand kilometers, I can earn more than 3,000 yuan after excluding various miscellaneous expenses on the road.

In a month, I can earn about 45,000 yuan. , now the vehicle damage is serious, overloading is strictly checked, and it is no longer profitable.

In the past, it was entirely based on overloading.

So now you have to be mentally prepared for long-distance trucks.< /p>

Safety issues

If you really want to enter the industry, you have to pay attention to this issue.

Driving when you are tired, do not drink and drive, and prevent theft and robbery when taking a break. Pay attention to the maintenance of the truck, pay attention to the tire temperature and pressure when running outside in hot weather, and check the brakes frequently.

It is also particularly important in rainy days and when going down steep slopes

< p>There are many more, but in short, you must pay attention, this is an industry with a relatively high risk factor.

Life is not easy, otherwise who wants to risk their lives to make money?

You can be very responsible! Let me tell you, as long as there are no accidents, you can definitely make money. This industry is very deep, and it is not just about being able to drive. Experience, luck and vision are also very important! If you have time, I will tell you a real-life example, because I witnessed how he came through step by step! It started in 2007, probably the year of the financial crisis, when a friend of mine lost his job because of his former factory. He was thinking about what to do because many people in the town were engaged in transportation. There were probably more than 200 cars at that time, but I took out a loan and bought a 9.6-meter car, which cost more than 300,000 at that time. I just got my driver's license and didn't hire anyone. I drove it myself because I just started in the industry. I don’t know much about it. I just started doing it and it was new. I bought it whenever there was something available. After working hard for five or six years, I bought my first house with full payment in the county. In the last few years, I continued to work hard, and I also had a serious traffic accident. Fortunately, the car was finished and I was fine. I didn’t change my career and took out a loan to buy a semi-trailer. Of course, I passed the A2 test in the driving school.

I traveled to Jiangsu and Shandong. After working for a few years, I bought an Audi A4 with full payment. Because I became more and more proficient in the market and freight market, and a few years later I bought my second house! You are not afraid of hardship or tiredness in this business, you are brave and careful, and it is also a good choice for people with little education!

Hello, I am Bo Zai from Shaanxi. I am very happy to answer this question. Do you make money by running a semi? You can definitely make money running a semi. As far as the examples around me are concerned, it is normal for people to earn hundreds of thousands a year.

But then again, running

The most important thing about semi-trailers is how many connections you have. If you don’t have many connections, you won’t be able to make much money. It's basically impossible to stop when running a semi. The more you contact and cooperate with logistics companies, the better. Nowadays, if you run a semi-truck job, you basically can’t get any work.

There are some around me. When traveling from Shandong to Shaanxi, some earn more than 50,000 yuan per trip, some earn more than 30,000 yuan, and some may make almost no money per trip.

It depends on how you view the problem. Running a semi basically means traveling around the country, going here today and there in a few days.

As mentioned above, if you find a few more logistics companies to cooperate with you, you don’t have to worry. There will basically be goods delivered every day.

I have a 13-meter high hurdle and I never run long distances. I drive a thousand kilometers one way by myself. I go to bed at 10 o'clock every day and get up at 6 o'clock in the morning. A trip from Wuhan to Guangzhou, and a trip from Guangzhou to Wuhan only costs eight to nine thousand yuan, five times a month. Long-distance running usually costs about 50,000 a month. I support my brother in buying a car. Remember to buy a 13-meter high hurdle car. Don't believe I'm trying to make it clear to you. Hubei toll is 130, Hunan 760, Wengcheng 364. Oil 370 liters of oil. You can calculate it yourself at 4.7 per liter

It is normal to run a semi-truck and buy a building, but to buy a small car. We have some people who drive trailers here. At first, they bought their trailers with a down payment, but later the car payment was paid off. They started buying cars and making down payments on houses in the city.

Let’s analyze why they make money. For those who drive big trucks here, they have more than 3,000 yuan to travel hundreds of kilometers. For example, if they pull a truck of goods to a distant place, the distance is 3,000 yuan. Eight hundred miles, the round trip costs more than 6,000 yuan. After deducting about 3,000 yuan for gas and tolls, they still earn more than 3,000 yuan. Calculated in this way, one trip costs more than 3,000 yuan, and ten trips cost more than 3,000 yuan. On average, they can earn more than 3,000 yuan per month. They run about twelve times, so they can earn about 40,000 yuan a month. If they keep doing business, excluding living expenses and family expenses, they will earn 230,000 yuan a year.

Why do they dare to buy a house! It's because after they ran for a year or two, they paid off the car, and then the car became their own, and they didn't have to pay back the car if they bought it in the future. So if they make money and don't buy a house or a car, how can they save it in the bank?

My family also has a big car, and my husband drives it for long distances. We have been buying the big car for two years, and we don’t have enough money to cover family expenses.