17 Year Old Starts $1.9M/Month Trucking Business… HOW?!
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Published 2023-12-18
Andrew Gomez was still in college when he started his trucking business, AJG Transport. Now, he’s grown from 2 trucks to a fleet of 80 with over $1 million a month in gross revenue. He’s sharing his tips to start a trucking company with fast growth potential in this episode.
Andrew comes from an entrepreneurial family. His brother owned his own trucking business, too, and his parents had owned their own businesses before, as well, including one in the trucking industry. Their issue was that they didn’t know how to scale the company, something Andrew set about discovering when he started AJG Transport.
Even with these knowledge resources to draw on, Andrew knew starting a trucking company wouldn’t be easy. He got himself a solid start by finding a niche market delivering for Amazon and invested all his profits back into the business to drive steady growth. The company’s big breakthrough happened when Andrew started building relationships with corporate executives to land big-ticket jobs. In this interview, he’ll share his advice for how to break into the corporate world as a small business owner and the strategy that made the difference in securing these jobs for AJG Transport.
AJG Transport has been on an upward growth trajectory since it launched, but that doesn’t mean growing the company was easy. Andrew had plenty of long days and sleepless nights on his journey to building a 7-figure a month business. He’ll share the sacrifices he made to build his business, the mistakes he’s made along the way, and how he overcame those challenges to get to where he is today.
If you enjoyed this interview, make sure to check out some of our past videos with trucking business owners:
19 Year-Old Starts a Trucking Business ►
• 19 Year-Old Starts a Trucking Business
This Makes Them $12M/Year…How? ►
• How I Built a $1M/Month Tow Truck Bus...
Resources
www.instagram.com/andrew_jgomez - More about Andrew and AJG Transport
clickhubspot.com/un1 - Check out the free 2024 Consumer Trends Report from HubSpot
www.upflip.com/ - UpFlip.com - Start & Grow Your Business
www.upflip.com/academy - Start, Build & Grow Your Business
www.upflip.com/newsletter - The UpFlip Newsletter - Success Stories & Strategies
www.upflip.com/equipment-list - UpFlip's Premier Equipment List
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The problem with not disclosing he got help from his family is that a lot of young impressionable viewers get anxiety and depression thinking these something wrong wirh them for not having a trucking company at 17. No bank will give a loan to a 17yo for a Corolla let alone for 2 trucks. Plus learning how to succeed in any industry takes time or mentorship. At 17 you simply can’t understand how things work work in the trucking industry unless you grew up in it. My bet is that he’s part of the Gomez family who owns Gomez Hauling. So if you were feeling anxious, left behind or dumb please dont. He’s a very intelligent guy and very mature for his age, but he also had a competitive advantage that most of us dont. Find your competitive advantage or work your way to your goals. Yes it’s going ti take you more time, that you cabt change, but the sooner you focus on something the faster you will start to see results
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He come from a family that already owns a well established haulage firm. It's not like he did this him self but i have huge respect for him taking on that responsibility at 17.
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What miracle happened that allowed a 17 year old to buy 2 trucks with zero money down?
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You forgot to mention “daddy” And it’s illegal for him to drive out of state because he’s not 21.
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People need to start being transparent. You are putting something out here that may have been his reality, but not for everyone else. This young man had some help, not hating but you need to keep it real. They wouldn’t even insure you for your own authority without having a level experience. See it’s easy to read between the lines of these experts.
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His family owns Gomez Hauling so I can see that playing a huge factor (obtaining Insurance & the trucks) Regardless good for him 👍
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I think it takes away from this story to not tell the part of the story where his family set him up and got him started. He is still an impressive young man. Just be honest with your viewers and tell the whole story. People don't like omissions or obfuscations of relevant facts.
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How did he do it? He didn't, that's how... Not at 17 he didn't, a 17 year old can't legally enter into a binding contract. So either he didn't, or it was under a parents name. Plain and simple. Now stop lying for views.
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Let's all call BS. People need to give their parents credit / there's nothing wrong with having parents that were successful and you used their success as a platform for your own.
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so 95 trucks doing 1.9 million per month. That comes out to 20.000 dollars per truck per month and at 5% profit that is $1000 profit per month. I can see how one tire blown will take your profit away for that one truck. Keep up the great work brother. God bless
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Proud of the young brotha, he’s kicking butt!!!
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Great Motivation!!!! Blessings AJG!
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Wow. This is amazing. The fact that this "kid" knows who Jim Rohn is and has gotten so much wisdom from hasn't even been alive during this kids life. WOW. That's impressive.
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Dude definitely grew up around a business oriented family you can tell just by the way he speaks and the knowledge he has. I hope he does well.
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I’m curious on who his underwriter was for his commercial insurance for his authority. I was in my 30’s with a clean driving record and for a new authority it was still pretty high.
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Great job bro, I admire you. Hard work always pays off 🙏
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Stop selling a dream. Next time, have them mentioned how his family has a background of the truck industry.
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Not everyone comes from a family with multi millions to back up a 17 year old. While I'm happy to see this kid getting it done,this is hardly something anyone else could even hope to obtain.
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great content!!! i loved this episode
