How do you advertise? - Page 2

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

craigslist, word of month, cards, flyer, door to door sales, B2B sales, cold calling, new paper ads, videos/youtube, website, posts (here and other places), truck and trailer moving ads.



Going to try a radio ad soon =)

hey, easy. the "moving" ads, you referring to things like box trucks that drive around and every few seconds the ads on the truck rotate?

If so, how much does that normally run you?

we do the craigslist of course, i run 6 different adds. here we have alot of free papers to the customer paid for by adds, one is called the merchansdiser we run a 1/4 page add for 80 a week and every 8th week we get a full page for the same price. the other is called the shopper and we run a 1/4 page add for 50 a week, typically our first car every week pays for both adds

EDIT you said to help the newbies im still in my rookie year so im still a newbie but i told ya anyway

make trin do it

Originally Posted by Area67

I believe there is both a Federal GVW set of regulations and State regs, then there are usually travel restrictions in larger towns. Unless you are Big Time..do not advertise on your truck or trailer. DOT regs can push you into getting a CDL and good luck passing a DOT check on any older truck. One major reason I started a yard was to get off the road due to relentless DOT harassment. I use word of mouth..it is slow but you kind of build a circle of decent people (that means a lot to me). I have business cards and some flyers. Every now and then a small ad in the local want ad paper. I am sure social media would be a powerful tool, but my hands are too shot to text on these little phones....

Could just be VA, but I never heard of any requirement to have a CDL, unless the vehicle you are driving has air brakes.

Air brakes are just an endorcement on a CLD liscence. Like a motorcycle is on a regualr liscence.

there are diferent classes of CDL here is a break down.
ss A - Any combination of vehicles where the combined weight is over 26,000 pounds, and the trailer is over 10,000. (tractor trailer)

Class B - Any vehicle over 26,000 pounds. Can tow a trailer under 10,000 (dump truck, cement mixer etc)

Class C - Any other vehicle which falls into the definition of commercial vehicle (hauling haz-mat, or passenger vehicle over 16 passengers)


Class C is your pickup truck if being used for commercial transport. I use to have a class c liscence when I worked for the medical company because we had hazmat requirments and we drove ford 1 ton vans. You see it all the time with landscape companies as well. they have DOT numbers on the side of the trucks. I know alot of them dont but maybe they are playing the game and hoping not to get caught? I know my cousin runs his truck and trailer for his general contracting business and he doesnt have dot numbers for his stuff. He did however get busted once when he was hauling a trailer that didnt have electric breaks. Trooper told him since he was doing it for a business trailer it had to have breaks.

I found this on the gov website to answer your question.

2.
I am an intrastate non-hazardous-materials motor carrier (my cargo or vehicle NEVER leaves the state that I am registered in). Do I need a USDOT Number?

The answer varies from state to state. In most states, intrastate non-hazardous-material motor carriers do not require a USDOT Number, but several States participate in programs such as PRISM, which does require intrastate motor carriers, with or without HazMat, to have a USDOT Number. If you do not know whether your state requires intrastate motor carriers to have a USDOT Number, contact the Office of Motor Carrier Safety field office in your state. For a listing of State offices, go to the FMCSA Field Roster.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/conta...eldroster.aspx

YEah colorado has some messed up state laws that is for sure. Only place I have ever lived that has higher insurance rates than california. When I moved from texas to cali my auto insurance doubled. When I went from cali to here in colorado it doubled again.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Air brakes are just an endorcement on a CLD liscence. Like a motorcycle is on a regualr liscence.

there are diferent classes of CDL here is a break down.
ss A - Any combination of vehicles where the combined weight is over 26,000 pounds, and the trailer is over 10,000. (tractor trailer)

Class B - Any vehicle over 26,000 pounds. Can tow a trailer under 10,000 (dump truck, cement mixer etc)

Class C - Any other vehicle which falls into the definition of commercial vehicle (hauling haz-mat, or passenger vehicle over 16 passengers)


Class C is your pickup truck if being used for commercial transport. I use to have a class c liscence when I worked for the medical company because we had hazmat requirments and we drove ford 1 ton vans. You see it all the time with landscape companies as well. they have DOT numbers on the side of the trucks. I know alot of them dont but maybe they are playing the game and hoping not to get caught? I know my cousin runs his truck and trailer for his general contracting business and he doesnt have dot numbers for his stuff. He did however get busted once when he was hauling a trailer that didnt have electric breaks. Trooper told him since he was doing it for a business trailer it had to have breaks.

I know there is different classifications for CDL, but I never have heard (here in VA anyways) of you needing one for a pickup. I see some guys using regular pickups for their businesses all the time, because it is cheaper for them in lots of ways, and not one has a DOT# anywhere.

I highly doubt I would need one for truck because I use it for everything, not just VIP Recycling, with or without advertising on it.

I was stopped once my a fairfax county police officer because one of the chains on my truck had broken off (don't ask me how!), and he was trying to tell me that my trailer needed air brakes on it.

I told him, not to argue with him on the subject, but I knew several people and companies with single axle trailers and none of them have air brakes, and that my trailer could only carry 3,500 lbs max on it.

The only type of trucks that I have seen that do have VDOT# on them is some of the bigger landscape trucks (not pickups), and other commercial vehicles.


I will call them tomorrow to find out either way for my truck to be on the safe side, but I am pretty sure, I wont be required too.

Originally Posted by Mick

Website and FaceBook.

how do people get traffic to their facebook page to begin with? tia.

Originally Posted by Scrapette

how do people get traffic to their facebook page to begin with? tia.

By listing it on your website and having a link on your personal Facebook site as a "page".

So the majority of advertising I've been doing lately is strictly Email to people "In the know" in Electronics....Tech Advisers, PC shop owners, etc. Someone passed my information along to the Press, and if I'm lucky I might see an article in the paper. Now THAT would be exciting! Add a little legitimacy to our operation.