Can I make $95k a year take home selling diesel pickups and cool used cars?

This guy does just that in NY. http://www.nydiesels.com/

I have no clue how much he makes, just that he advertises and his website has horrible music on it.

Here is another. http://www.southerndieseltruck.com/about/

Yes, you can make $95K per year selling trucks.

No, you won't enjoy it anymore. You're gonna have to work you azz off.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback.

I appreciate what everyone is saying. Goal would be $95k cash money in my pocket every 365 days. Running the numbers I do not see that being realistic at first, maybe ever. It could be done Smokey and the Bandit style, but not legally.

Best bet I suppose will be to keep working on cars as a hobby, sell a few here and there for some walking around money.

I was in Atlanta this past week, stopped by a few used car dealer. 05 Duramax Crew Cab Leather 4x4 $12k 230k miles, absolutely spotless underneath, should have bought and drove it home. Its a $15000 truck here in Wisconsin.

My question, is the 95k what you are currently making as a 5 year engineer? That's pretty low, at least for my industry. My 5 year engineers make more than that and we live somewhere way way cheaper than Milwaukee

icaneat50eggs wrote: My question, is the 95k what you are currently making as a 5 year engineer? That's pretty low, at least for my industry. My 5 year engineers make more than that and we live somewhere way way cheaper than Milwaukee

In FL normal engineering offers we submit for a level 3 (approx 8 years) are about $90K. 10 years is our threshold for a level 4 which would put you at 95K on the low side. Level 5 and 6 are more or less optional, but our employees can rely upon 3-5% bump every year.

My point is $95K for a 5 year sounds reasonable for a metro area.

He said $95k take home. I'm guessing that means the actual salary is $120k or so.

NordicSaab wrote:

icaneat50eggs wrote: My question, is the 95k what you are currently making as a 5 year engineer? That's pretty low, at least for my industry. My 5 year engineers make more than that and we live somewhere way way cheaper than Milwaukee

In FL normal engineering offers we submit for a level 3 (approx 8 years) are about $90K. 10 years is our threshold for a level 4 which would put you at 95K on the low side. Level 5 and 6 are more or less optional, but our employees can rely upon 3-5% bump every year. My point is $95K for a 5 year sounds reasonable for a metro area.

What industry?

Maybe I'm spoiled. Our 5 year engineers are around 105 base and 10-12 bonus in a dirt cheap place to live

In reply to icaneat50eggs:

Software Engineering, Validation and Verification.

I spent the last year and a half at a Ford dealership that moves about 70 cars a month.

The top sales people break 6 figures. They don't run the business, handle purchases, arrange F&I, do marketing, perform service, and they certainly don't transport the vehicles. They have a large team that does all that for them.

The problem with your plan is, you are gonna have to do it all. I understand you will make a little on each aspect of every sale, but it's a lot of work, with a lot of different specialized skills.

If you CLEARED 5% on every sale (you won't- some you will go negative), and were selling $20K vehicles on average, you will only make $1K per vehicle. That means you'd have to sell 2 per week.

The turn around for F&I is usually 7-10 days. So, every 10 days you'd be $80,000 in the hole, hoping to get approvals so you can make your measly $4K. Is that the stress you want?