Full truckload shipping

Originally Posted by matador

You'll also need a dock to load the truck. That's the real problem for those of us out here in the middle of nowhere- it just eats into your profits so much to have a truck come to you. That, and I can't imagine having enough stuff to fill an entire truck anyways

You can get a dependable walkie stacker for as little as $600. That and a pallet jack gets your truck loaded albeit slower than with forklift with a dock or ramp. If you part-time it's hard to imagine how you could get a full truck without some really substantial storage space. Scrapping full time it's hard to say. You have to save up quantity while selling enough to support yourself as you tie up funds buying enough to ship. If you've got a good group of suppliers it's for sure possible though or if you do enough great-than-scrap value to grow your buy-sell margin enough that you don't have as much pressure to sell right away it's possible that way too. All that if it's even desirable for you though! People meeting their goals already certainly don't need to add more work just for the sake of more work and a few more pennies.