A practical 12-section plan for a one-truck operation. Build your startup budget, customer list, rate model, cash-flow forecast, and 90-day launch plan before committing to a truck.
A plan makes the purchase decision testable. Enter your actual truck payment, written insurance quotes, fuel assumptions, maintenance reserve, expected billable hours, and customer payment terms. If the plan only works in a perfect month, the truck is too expensive or the rate is too low.
[Business name] will operate one [truck configuration] from [city], serving [customer types] within [radius] miles. We need $[capital] and target $[monthly revenue] at [billable hours or loads].
List ten active buyers, three aggregate or disposal facilities, current awarded projects, the truck classes requested, and the source and date for each rate assumption.
Define material, equipment, legal payload, service radius, hourly/per-load/per-ton model, minimums, detention, fuel adjustment, and target customer concentration.
Include down payment, independent inspection, immediate repairs, tax and title, permits, insurance down payment, safety equipment, fuel, and at least a cash buffer for slow-paying customers.
Document dispatch hours, pre-trip and post-trip process, preventive-maintenance intervals, ticket capture, invoicing cadence, breakdown response, and backup-hauler relationships.
Set weekly targets for qualified projects, direct calls, packet submissions, follow-ups, site visits, quotes, first shifts, and repeat bookings.
Show conservative, base, and strong cases. State billable days, cycles per day, rate, fuel price, MPG, maintenance reserve, payment, insurance, taxes, and customer payment lag.
Plan for weather, breakdowns, overweight citations, customer concentration, slow payment, insurance renewal, driver loss, and an unplanned major repair.
Treat every financial figure as an assumption until supported by a written quote, local rate sheet, or buyer conversation. Revenue equals billable units multiplied by collected rate—not invoiced rate. Model cash timing separately because fuel and payroll are due before many customers pay.
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12 pages: executive summary, market analysis, services (hourly / per-load / spec), customer profiles, startup budget, 12-month revenue projection, operating budget, insurance & compliance, and a 90-day launch plan.
Most equipment lenders don't require a business plan for a used dump truck loan under $75K. Banks and SBA loans require one. Either way, writing it forces you to run the math before you buy the truck.
Yes. Copy the section prompts into Google Docs or Word, replace the bracketed fields, and save or print your completed plan.
The template covers what to write. The full Dump Truck Academy — Complete Course covers exactly how — with the 500+ GC & aggregate directory, cycle-time pricing sheets, 12 fill-in-the-blank templates, and the exact 60-day cash-flow model.
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