Hotshot Or Class A?
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I wouldn't really know about that business personally, and most here probably wouldn't. It's a special niche.
To answer your question, no. Not just anyone can get a pickup truck and go. Well maybe if all you were going to pull was campers.. 1 at a time and that pays pretty bad from what I've ever heard. Generally they are not just regular pickups. I know my nephew's truck certainly isn't. His looks like a heavy haul pickup cab with a sleeper attached.. has 3 axles (steers and 2 drive axles) for a total of 5 axles including his trailers, a flatbed platform for chains, straps, and tarps, and a 5th wheel sized like a big rig... Not the rinky dink ones you see pulling campers or small horse trailers. He also runs elogs. Also trucks like his are classed as a COMMERCIAL VEHICLE (all hotshots are) but requiring a class A CDL. It's a COMBINATION VEHICLE and his gross is almost always over 26k pounds.
Again , I that highly recommend you do your research on the OOIDA forums and website. Talk to people who do this type of work. I think your goals are very unrealistic.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Elog:
Electronic Onboard Recorder
Electronic Logbook
A device which records the amount of time a vehicle has been driven. If the vehicle is not being driven, the operator will manually input whether or not he/she is on duty or not.
Elogs:
Electronic Onboard Recorder
Electronic Logbook
A device which records the amount of time a vehicle has been driven. If the vehicle is not being driven, the operator will manually input whether or not he/she is on duty or not.
Combination Vehicle:
A vehicle with two separate parts - the power unit (tractor) and the trailer. Tractor-trailers are considered combination vehicles.
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Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
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Their Mission
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