Before you proceed too far with this idea, you may want to check to see whether you can find an insurance company who will insure you without experience. There are probably more claims paid out for those hauling cars than anything else. You get a scratch and you will spend $1,000 or more. Insurance is expensive in this business. Insurance to haul cars is more expensive and without experience will be a real challenge.

Interesting setup. 8)

There is a company in Alabama called FET Sales who restores, refurbishes and sells various types of car haulers. I have seen some 5 packs a few times on their lot. They were sold out a year or so ago and changed their name. They are in a small town in north Alabama near Boaz and Albertville. If you can find a copy of The Truckpaper, he usually has an ad for a carhauler.

Gman,

Good point on the ins. end.
I was figuring with a 12+ yr. clean CDL and zero ins. claims, ins. wouldn't be a problem.
I will check into it ASAP.

I tried doing searches for FET and found nothing....

Looked at the truckpaper.com and didn't see anything in Alabama.
Hopefully someone else might be able to help out with a name?

Going to call Jack Key car hauling and see if he know's of anything...

Thanks guy's!!
Be good, Jim

Could also look at the 4 car rollbacks, you lose 1 car but can do a little more with a rollback hauling other things.



something like this
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Thanks Ben,

Yeah I know about them. Carry 3 on the truck and a stinger wheel lift out back. More for the salvage trade.
I really would like a 6-7-8 car trailer but only have a class B CDL right now.
If I like the work I will jump up to a class A CDL.
Untill then, I can run a 5 pack and see how it goes.
Just trying to find a used one rather than spend $120K for new.

Found 2 Peterbilt 5 pack's in Mass. but 1 is very rusty for $40K and the other is better rust wise for $52K but still rust scabs, even on the cab????? Both have approx 500K miles on them.

Used from the south is the only way to go really....

Be good, Jim

Try this company. If you go to the truck paper website and pull up truck dealers in Alabama you will find them. When I pulled them up they had a photo of a 5 pack.

NORTH EAST AUTO TRUCK BROKERS - (256)561-4068 - Crossville, Alabama - CLICK ON OUR LINK TO VIEW OUR WEBSITE!!


Perhaps it will be different with a Class B license, but with a Class A you will need at least 2 years of otr experience to find a decent insurance company without the radius restriction. You can probably get Progressive to insure you but will probably be restricted to a 300 mile radius. And I am not sure they will cover anyone who hauls cars. If you find someone who will insure you with a Class B to haul cars you may want to let us know so that we can pass the info along to others.

4 years ago, I ran cars on a 53ft stepdeck with dovetail and ramps, driver stayed out 30-45 days at a time. The truck would gross $4000 to $7000 per week. We got cars from Central Dispatch, DAS, HHG moving companies, ebay sellers, and word of mouth. This was a great business, but the claims will cost you, and its always the guy with a piece of crap car or some ebay guy that bought the car site unseen, but you dented the middle of the roof or made the engine smoke. I beat every claim, but they can cost you. Go for it and good luck.

hey Load IT does Central Dispatch have good rates , thinking about starting out with a 4 car hauler lived in Ms would like to stay in the Southeast to start out.

I used to have a form that I used to show damage on a vehicle when I picked it up. Any damage was noted and sometimes photographed and signed off by the shipper. When I arrived at the receiver I made sure that they inspected the vehicle and signed off on it. You need to take special care when you haul cars.