Hello everybody!
I've been six months at this business. I started by working for guy that scraps trailers and has a yard where he also buys scrap metal from people that brings it from the streets. He wanted me to locate more trailers and negociate for him to buy them very cheap so he can scrap them. After several months, I was able to locate some trailers in local trucking and rental companies.



However, now i find much harder to locate them. He says he used to find groups of trailers and buy about 50 at the time. I can't locate that many. Just 2 or 3 per week. He sent me to local factories where they produce metal scrap but they already have contracts with big companies like Metal Management, etc. He says I am not looking hard enough.

My questions are: Am I not looking hard or is it that there is not a lot of trailers anymore available for scrap? One guy told me that trucking is getting better so companies rather fix their old trailers instead of sell them as scrap. Is this true?
Am I looking in the wrong places for metal scrap? Where are all the group of trailers available for scrap? Is there now a new way to buy them like auctions in the internet?
The guy has been very pacient and good. He pays me about $700.00/week. But I am afraid that he will fire me if I don't bring enough business to him.
Any suggestions will be very appreciated.
Thank you all