Honey Dippin
#21
11-05-2007, 09:14 PM
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Concordville PA
Posts: 3,841
we are #1 in a #2 bussiness
we pump what you dump No one sticks there nose in our bussiness Good ideas.  I called the guy today he said he was lookin for someone to help him on the weekends i said i will be more then welling to drive on the weekends for him. SO that is a plus. Let you guys know how it goes. Like i said it might be around 6 months or so. But that give me time to save for $$$$ and think about what has to be done. I called my oldboss today. There is alot of paperwork involed. in owning a honey dipper. Well you got all the DOT stuff which you guys know about. Plus you have DEP stuff. Stuff for the health dept. some twp. and countys require waste permits. dumping sties you have to keep your waste manfiests for up to 1 year and so on. :shock: But he said he wife did all that and iof i was for real she would be more then willing to help me out intill i know what am doing.
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#22
11-05-2007, 09:40 PM
That sounds good Mackman, you'll get to know some of the customers by working weekends, and the old bosses wife is willing to help out also. I would definitely take her up on that.
By 6 months or so you should feel pretty confident to take over and run with it.
#23
11-05-2007, 09:52 PM
Re: Honey Dippin
Originally Posted by Mackman
I have a chance to buy a honey dipping company (septic truck). In like 6months i have been waiting for this day
. Problem is the 40k price tag. The truck is JUNK a 1988 ford F-800 with a 3,000gallon steel Tank. Customer base of about 375-400. Guy did this part time and wants to get out of it it is getting to big for him. Kind of a 1/2 azz friend of my dads. He works at the quarry full time the one my dad hauls out of.I know him from when i drove honey dippers for almost 3 years. I think i can make some money with it. ITs not like normal trucking. When fuel goes up over night you can add a 5.00 per stop fuel surcharge on the bill if you wanted. Well i got about 10k in the bank and my oldman is more then willing to help me out. He just doesnt want to see me buy a dump truck or tractor. Just to give you some inside info. We used to pump houses out for 195 a pop could do about 6 a day 10hrs give or take. Thats almost 1200 dollers for a day. Dumping fee was 0.02 cents a gallon so you have to take that out. One day i pulled off 9 houses in about 12hrs. That was a money makin day. All the houses where in about a 10mile radius. Some house you can do in 15mins other ones are 2 1/2hrs depends on where the tanks are at how far in the ground etc etc. So maybe if i play my cards right i can be some what of a O/O soon. But i will need more customers to go full time for one truck to work 8hrs a day you will need about 1500 customers. I would go into more detail about the truck but i dont think anyone on here knows about septic pumps and all that good stuff. My old boss who sold out to the last company i worked for has a 5year work cont. that will be up in about 2years. Once that is up i know he will help me out big time. Cuz he aint to happy with the company who he sold to with what they are doing. Plus he is real good friends with my dad thats how i got the job there to begin with. Well i just put that all out there for you all. Me and my dad do alot of talkin all the time about trucks and i just doint think in real truckin for all you have on the line it is not worth it so this may be a good way to go. I worked for a guy who had one about 20 years ago, in his ad, it said " 100 feet of hose, we pump from the street!" I cant tell you how much business he got just because of that, people like it when you dont drive in their yard, just a suggestion.. also if you live in an area where there are farms try to work out a deal to dump there, I lived in Florida, we dumped in an orange grove for no charge, they were glad to have the free fertilizer.
#24
11-05-2007, 10:00 PM
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Concordville PA
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we also pumped form the street as long as it wasnt busy highway. And it was about 75ft away. any longer then that we used the driveway if it was closer. I know about the farm thing but my oldboss says there alot of BS with that as far as DEP goes. thats why he never did it. He said he would rather pay the small dumping fee and not have to deal with all the BS with land applying it and the DEP.
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#27
11-05-2007, 11:04 PM
*A flush beats a Full House*
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#28
11-06-2007, 10:30 PM
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Concordville PA
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#30
11-06-2007, 11:04 PM
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Location: Concordville PA
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i was laughing so hard when i was lookin at that. I had to post it. :wink:
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