 is DDK and today you're gonna find out if you should or should not start a cargo van or box truck business. Just like that we are here at Flow and Deco. Get to this money we never ignore. How you doing boss? Good how are you? I'm big up in order. Yes sir uh 54 39 our last four digits. 54 39? Yes sir it's supposed to be two two boxes of 48 by 48 towel. I don't see anything number. See do the same thing happen yesterday I just took them three three of yesterday it's the same thing happened yesterday he was here. I'm back again I gotta I gotta take them. So you know about this? Yeah uh yeah so yesterday I picked up uh some little disorder I think it's like uh you remember the name? It's Mohammed. Well what's the order number? You don't have an order number? Uh the last five four three nine. And the name's Mohammed. I didn't see no Mohammed. Mohammed or Lou G? Well yesterday it was Lou G and today it's Mohammed. What's that one? Lou? Yeah maybe they uh lived together or something because yesterday I said Lou G but and I went to the house it was Mohammed. Yeah Mohammed is the contractor or something. Yeah Deliver it and then I'll ask Tanner and then how to deliver it. So just help him load it out. And just like that we got everything figured out we want the money not the cloud don't forget that baby some people want the cloud I want the money I just want the money babe I just want the money I just want the money babe I just want the money I don't know about that comment below and let me know if you know about I just want the money baby and comment below and let me know who's in that song. That is game time about to go ahead and get on the grind let's shop. Under the chair it's a whole pile. Oh yeah I see it. Right there it was a whole box. Yeah well no me and Mohammed took it up yesterday together so it was fine it was actually uh shrink wrapped and everything so I don't know what happened. Oh this is not yesterday. Oh before the first one. Oh okay yesterday they were on sports you know when uh yeah. Can he actually help me take this off? Yes sir. You got it? Put it like this. Like this? Yeah it is the most better because. Oh okay I got it. Are you sure? Yeah. I can pull some of the weight. Oh I'm going the wrong way. Team work. I put mine first? Yeah okay. Yeah okay okay my aim first is your aim. Yeah you can pull first. Okay my hand is fire. Okay I have to take a picture. Yes. You guys have been having some fun I see it always happens. Oh my gosh. You always have to go to the store five more extra times. Yes we have to come to return we have some stuff on that pile and on this one. Oh I mean not to return it's extra. Oh yeah did you return? Yeah yeah it's the leftover. Okay and we are good to go. Yeah no signature. No thank you so much. Thank you guys very much. You guys have a good one. Thank you for coming. For that order the pickup place of course was Florin Decor. We drove 15.38 miles we picked up two boxes of towel and we made 48 dollars and 95 cents. Enough money to pay the rent. We ran around on beans with no tent let's go. Just like that we are here at Home Depot. Let's see if we're in the right area we might be messing up. Nope. Do you mind if I flinch? I guess I have to go down here. Hello. How are you doing? I have an order to pick up. Am I supposed to come here? Yeah okay. Are you in a van? Yes ma'am. Oh good. They told me that the van guys are coming here now instead of going in back so that's good I have a feeling. So what's the order number? Um the last you need the whole order number or just the last four? No I would need the whole. Okay H. 1952. H. 1907. Oh sorry. I thought it was a van. Okay. Uh 286429. Okay. That's the heater? Yeah these are heaters for outdoors. Oh kind of cool I've never seen it before. Well you've gone to restaurants during COVID but I don't know why they need 20 of them what they're doing. Maybe they open up a big restaurant. We I don't know. I'll see if I get there. Yeah thank you very much. Thank you. You have a great day ma'am. Y'all see what's going on baby. We got these John. They said they weigh 86 pounds. All these joints they got a little they look it's not even. They don't smell like 86 pounds. More like I would say like 50 pounds. I feel like we're like 50 pounds. That's it that's all. We do have the dollars and the four road card we need to give. And the reason why I'm putting it over here is because that means we don't have to strap it down because it's gonna be right here in this area. How many of them are gonna get our pockets on the floor? Let's go. So we are here at the drop-off location but I have no idea exactly where to go because it's like three different apartments. Well it's like not an apartment but businesses so I figure which one to go to. I don't know if I'm supposed to go over here or go over here. I called and they didn't answer so see what's going on. Dang it's way more than three. It's all the way up to number nine. Where am I supposed to go? Well guys we're going to take the four road card and take it to the front door. Take it to the front door. Honestly I'm probably supposed to use the dolly instead of using the four car but I ain't like it. So it is what it is baby. Now we gotta step back out of the photo. We're nervous. We're gone. So the second order we just completed was actually supposed to be five items weighing 86 pounds apiece. So it was supposed to be 430 pounds driving seven miles for 47 38 went out there to be great and got that K. The customer wasn't there so we had to do what we had to do. We had to drop that joint off and keep on moving and grooving. We are getting this money and y'all know it's soon then let's go. And just like that we are here at the pickup location baby. We've been here a couple times. We've been out here in the grind. We don't seem to see a shine. You don't see where I put that pallet baby. They got big pallets right here so they probably use a lot of them so yes sir I gotta go to Woodridge. I got about to get us together. I think we came we came here a few times to do the same exact load or to get our pockets on the floor. It's three pallets so we're gonna move this stuff out the way for right now. Then we're gonna after you strap it up and stop just like that. If I got about to pull up so we can go ahead and get these dividend ends and win. You know what I'm talking about? Then we're gonna spin. I hope we get another order again. You know what I'm talking about? And just like that y'all already know what time it is. It's time for us to get these dividend ends and win. Let's go. And just like that we are here at the drop ball. Time to knock face socks off. How you doing boss? You work here? No? Oh okay. I have a drop off for you from Elgrov Village. Okay appreciate it boss. All right I'm about to get us together so we can run up this shutter. Get this money. We can do better. We can do better getting this money baby. But here's what it is. We ain't complaining. We're maintaining. We're going to keep on doing our thing and gripping grain if we're complaining. Style it too. I know what it's time to do. How many y'all got? Y'all want to put a load out? I don't get carried away. And last but not least that final order we just completed. We drove 10 deadhead miles, 23 miles on it. So 33 miles altogether and we did receive a payment of 125. Now the question is should you or should you not start a cargo van or box truck business in 2023? Honestly I have no clue. It depends on two very important things. One is more important than the other one. But number one it depends on your market and number two which is the most important of them all. It depends on you. It all depends on you. The market is going to do what the market going to do but what are you going to do? So that's why it depends all on you. Now I know you want to start this business. I have some questions for you. Get a pen and a pad out and ask these questions to yourself. Number one, do you have the money to start the business? Do you have the money? Also, if you're not going to pay cash for the cargo van or box truck, do you have the credit or the business credit to start the business? It's another question. Now okay so you got those things. Do you have reserves? You're going to need some reserves just in case something happened. You never know what might happen. The market might change. The cargo van or box truck might mess up. You might have to take it to the shop. You're going to need some reserves. So if everything comes to a halt right now like a complete halt, do you have like six months of reserves to get everything situated? It's nothing you got to think about. So you got all of those things knocked out. Now the question is what are you going to do with the cargo van? What are you going to do? Are you going to do expediting? Are you going to try to get gaps out? Are you going to get a carrier? Are you going to get your DOT and MC? I mean what are you really going to do with the van? Okay so you say you want to be an expediter right? Because you see all these youtubers they running around making all this money doing expediting. And yes they do. So I'm going to make some great money. The question is are you able to drive nine to twelve thousand miles per month on your van or box truck? Are you willing to do that? Are you able to do that? Okay so you can do that. If you're getting one thing, one very important thing, can you drive in snow? I mean you're going to be an expeditor so you got to think about this. I know that you may live in Texas or Florida or wherever you may live in but you're going to have to come to Illinois and New York and all the places in the Midwest where snow. You're going to eventually have to come through there. Can you drive in that snow? It's different and everybody see if they can do but can you really do it? Okay so you may not want to do expediting. You may want to go ahead and do the gig gaps. Okay you got the gig gaps. Now do you have all of the gig gaps available in your area? Have you watched all the videos and found out all about all these gig gaps? Have you done any research about different gig gaps that may be in your area and not in my area or other people's area? Gotta make sure you do that. What are you going to do when the gig gaps get slow? They're pretty slow right now so what are you going to do then? I don't know. I know. I know. I know. These are just some questions. I'm just asking some questions. It's up to you what your answer is going to be. So now you're saying okay you want to get a carrier company. What are you going to do when a carrier company loads it slow? It's pretty slow in my area right now. What are you going to do then? This is where the six months of reserve is going to kick in for you because you need to have money set aside just in case something happened or what are you going to do if the carrier company shuts down because some of these carrier companies they scam and all that stuff so which they mean to the next thing? Or you wouldn't do non-stop research? Or you wouldn't do research because things are going to happen. The gig gaps may get slow, the expedited may get slow, the carrier company may get slow. Or you wouldn't put in non-stop research meaning at least once or twice a week I'm on the computer researching different things. I'm on Indeed, I'm on Query Exist, I'm on all the different places to find out other ways to generate money with the cargo van. Well we have a cargo van. So are you willing to do extensive research on this type of stuff? These are questions you need to ask yourself before you get into it because once you put that money down and you saw that down the line you're done it's yours. They don't care if you pay it or don't pay it. Now we talked about expediting, we talked about the gig apps, we also talked about a carrier company. Are you going to start your own company? If you start your own company what are you going to do? Like what is going to be your thing? Are you going to do a mobile car wash or start your food truck? What are you going to do? You got to have all this stuff situated before you go and run out and get this van. I know you want to get the van because it look good when I'm doing the videos. It look good when others be doing the videos but it's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that people don't talk about and you don't think about because you're not actually in it. You want to run a dedicated lane, you want to run a dedicated route every day. That seems like it's the most secure doesn't it? I know it seems like it's the most secure out of all the things of this name right? But what happens if the van or the box truck break down? What happens then? Then you can't come to go pick up the load. What you going to do after that? You can't come pick up the dedicated lane, you're supposed to be there every single day at this time at 5.30 in the morning. What are you going to do if the van or box truck break down? You're going to rent your box truck or van. You might break even or you might even lose money. Now with that you just want to make sure that if you are going to rent a box truck or van and you make sure that you knock it out and you might lose money in that particular moment but you're going to save yourself. You're going to save yourself. The reason why you're going to save yourself is because the second that you don't come to pick up that route, the second you just missing days and all that stuff, they're going to give somebody else, baby. Hey, drivers come a dime a dozen. They're coming through them Georgia. They're reaching out every day. They have a whole list of them waiting to get in there. They might have some people in there already who are going to say, you know what, our ticket is right. You might have a better route than them. They might have moved or something. They want to get this route and you got that route. They might want to say, no, let me get that route. He ain't even coming. She ain't even coming. They ain't even coming. So might as well just let me get it. I already been here for three years. Think about that too. Now, those are a lot of different questions but this is the most important. Well, these are the most important. Can you face adversity? Do you have ambition? Do you have drive? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done? Whether it be gig as S. And what if all of that fails? What if everything just fell? Everything just dropped down to the floor. Everything is just everything is just done. What are you going to do then? Are you going to make adjustments? Are you going to figure out the next thing you got to do? That all comes with that research that you're supposed to be doing? I don't know, baby. These are just some questions you want to ask yourself before you get in this business or any business. I mean, this is in general because sometimes stuff may get ugly. What are you going to do? Say you want to run this company. You got all these different things. What are you going to do if somebody don't show up? What are you going to do if somebody tired of us? What is all these are a lot of different questions you should ask yourself before you get into any business, not just the cargo van or box truck business, but any business. And I just want to ask you guys those questions because I know that a lot of people want to get a van or a box truck or whatever they want to get, but you got to make sure you're doing your research and doing your own due diligence on this stuff because just because you see me do it or whoever else may got this van or truck or whatever their case may be, it may be different on your end. You never know anybody's situation. You never know. Somebody might got a whole bunch of money stashed away, so the money really don't matter to them. None of that stuff really matters to them. Somebody might is everybody has different situation. Also a very important thing I forgot to ask you. This is very important. Are you willing to spend less time with your family? Because when you start a business you're going to spend less time with your family. I'm just telling you right now. Those are all the things you need to think about if you plan on getting to this business or starting a business. I just want that you guys know that. Come up below and let me know did we go out there in Skull and get a pop like Chris Crowe. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you're not subscribed, make sure you smash that subscribe button. Also give me a thumbs up and make sure you lock in tomorrow because going back down and throw them C's up in the comment section. Throw them C's up in the comment section. I ain't forget about y'all baby. Y'all know I had to say it before we left, but I will see you guys on the next one. Be going, be going, be flowing. You already know the DDK and I'm on my way.