If you wonder how to make money with a pickup truck, you may need to start figuring out the niches where people or businesses most often need the help of a powerful vehicle.
Below, find a list most popular ways how pickup truck owners make their money.
How profitable can a pickup truck business be?
It's difficult to give an estimation on how much money it's possible to make owning a pickup truck because this depends on the type of services your pickup provides, where you live, and how many hours you work.
For example.
You can expect to earn from $15 to $20 per hour for delivering small items such as packages.
You can increase your pay to up to $40 by delivering bigger stuff with the pickup truck.
Or, you can earn larger amounts of around $1000 per day for making long hauls crossing several state lines and which can take all day to complete.
1. Hauling work
The first way to make money with a pickup truck described in this list is by providing pickup services to workplaces such as construction sites, landscaping places, home repairs, yard work, mounting TVs and ceiling fans, and fixing leaky faucets.
Pickup trucks are powerful vehicles with strong engines and they can easily haul heavy loads to or from these types of workplaces.
2. Moving Service
The next way to make money with a pickup truck is by providing moving services.
When homeowners or business owners move from one location to another, they usually need the help of a pickup truck to move their stuff. It helps to have a trailer attached to your pickup truck. That way, you'll be able to make fewer trips back and forth.
You are responsible for taking all their belongings from point A to point B without damaging them.
If you choose to provide moving services, you need to be in the good physical condition and take probably a friend to help you with the job.
A good physical condition helps to move heavy furniture or other stuff easier.
The amount you can make will vary by job, how often you work, and the distance of the move.
3. Deliver Items
One of the easiest ways to make money with your pickup truck is by becoming a delivery driver.
A delivery driver can provide delivery services to all kinds of businesses so long as the freight fits in a pickup truck.
Thanks to Amazon, many companies try to keep up with the demand of delivering fast to their customer.
Many people want their items quickly ordered online and delivered to their homes or their workplaces. You may deliver things from office supply places, grocery stores, or package stores.
By adding a trailer to your pickup truck, you can keep up with the demand and make more deliveries and take on more and larger packages.
4. Snow Plowing
If you live in a location that gets a lot of snow, snow removal is another good way to make money with a pickup truck.
Did you know that you can turn your pickup truck into a snowplow?
To make your pickup truck ready for snow removal, there are a few modifications to be made such as winter tires, auxiliary headlights, and a snow plow that works with the truck.
Many private businesses need someone to clear their parking lot each day. You can provide these clients with longer driveways.
5. Towing Services
Sometimes when people who don't own a truck rent a boat or trailer for the day and may need a truck to tow it to their destination.
In these cases, they call a towing service near their location.
This is when your pickup truck comes in as the best option.
But, I don't mean towing broken-down vehicles. Leave that to the rollback tow trucks with winches and hooks.
I mean using your pickup truck to make money by towing RVs, campers, trailers, boats, and cars because people always need to move these kinds of vehicles.
Also, it is important to understand the towing capacity of your pickup truck to prevent potential problems that could damage your vehicle.
6. Advertise on Your Truck
Making money with a pickup truck by advertising on it is by far the easiest way to earn a buck.
Advertising on your pickup means snapping an ad on its sides and keep rolling as regularly.
Advertising is a passive way of income.
If your pickup truck is regularly driven in areas with lots of eyeballs, you can make money by renting out advertising space on your truck.
You can either sell advertising space directly to local businesses or work with an advertising agency that will find advertisers for you.
7. Rent Out Your Truck
If you want to earn money on your pickup truck when it is not in use, renting it out to people who need it is an ideal solution. In this case, you don't do the actual driving.
Keep your truck clean and in good working order, and be punctual and professional with each rental.
8. Provide a Junk Hauling Service
If you own a pickup truck, you can make money with it by helping people clear out their space.
Many people simply don’t have a way to get rid of large items without hiring someone to do it for them.
For example, homeowners can remove some things with their personal vehicles but the larger items can't fit in. So, they need the help of a moving service to haul larger items like mattresses, furniture, old washing machine, or dryer.
When you add a trailer to your pickup truck, you can haul larger junk and take on bigger jobs meaning more money.
For example.
- Small jobs are typically 1-3 items.
- Larger jobs could be a full basement clean out, clearing out an estate sale, or even disassembling and removing an entire office full of cubicles.
