The Trailer Hustle Podcast

Get your STOLEN TRAILER back! | HUGE TRAILER GIVEAWAY

Justin Martin Season 1 Episode 51

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Justin Martin discusses the latest updates, giveaways, and features of the Trailer Hustle app, emphasizing community engagement and new tools for trailer owners.

Key Topics
Trailer Hustle app updates and features
Community giveaways and engagement
Trailer theft alert system
Trailer maintenance logs and documentation
New app tools for trailer owners

Keywords
Trailer Hustle, trailer community, app updates, giveaways, trailer theft alert, trailer maintenance, trailer reviews, trailer app features

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Guys, we are covering some very big things in this episode. Thank you guys so much for being here. Um, this is the Trailer Owners Network. I'm I'm so happy that all you guys are here with me. Number one, um, we're gonna speed round through this because I'm super excited. I want all you guys to know everything that's going on. Number one being the giveaways that are happening. All right, we've got two awesome giveaways sponsored by one awesome company, okay? The trailer spot out of Rustburg, Virginia. Uh, Jake, thank you so much for sponsoring this stuff. Um, their dealership um is located in Rustburg, Virginia. You guys need to go check them out. Um, go to the Facebook group if you have not already and look for the post that was made yesterday, um, being Monday the 11th, okay, maybe May 11th. And they are sponsoring a giveaway of this. This is a two-inch drop, bulletproof hitches, aluminum hitch, whatever, all the stuff is listed in the thing. I'm not gonna remember all of it. But this is gonna go to somebody that we've already got like a hundred entrants, which is great in the very first post. So that's awesome. So go join that giveaway. That is a group only giveaway. So you have to like and follow their page, go back to that post, comment, done. And you know what? Uh double entries if you do it from your personal account and your business account. Not gonna hurt my feelings at all, just increase your chances of winning. So definitely join this giveaway. That is gonna end um probably Sunday, if I'm not mistaken. I gotta look at the date that I put on there, but I'm pretty sure Sunday. So you want to get in on that. Now, the other giveaway, now this is huge, huge. In the spirit of us hitting almost 20,000 members or of us hitting 20,000 members probably by the time the giveaway is over, the trailer spot has also said, hey, we want to do something big for the community. We want to say thank you because so many community members have bought trailers from them and mentioned that you know they saw them in trailer hustle and all. They want to do something big. I said, let's do it. They are gonna be giving away a 20-foot car hauler, a 10K 20-foot car hauler ready to rent. It's got a winch installed, it's got the toolbox, it's got the battery, it's got straps, everything ready to go. Okay. Um, so I'm gonna attach some pictures. Matter of fact, right here, um, if you're watching this on YouTube um or in the group or wherever, you can see the pictures up on the screen right now. Now, click the link in the description that will take you straight to a page that I made on trailerhustle.com telling you all about the giveaway. There's no purchase necessary, there's no way to increase your odds by paying anything or anything like that. It is free to join, okay? You join the Trailer Hustle mobile app, make your account, go to giveaways, click the giveaway, click enter. It is that simple. And I believe it's January, uh, July 31st is when that ends, and we'll pick the winner sometime the first week, probably, of August. Um, this is huge. This is a huge giveaway. And I'm excited to be able to bring this to you guys from the trailer spot. Again, Jake and the folks over at the trailer spot. Thank you guys so much for giving back to the community in such a kick-ass way. This is this is a no-joke giveaway, and um it's not lost on me. And I think that um I think the community is really gonna love it and appreciate you doing this. So thank you so much, guys, for doing this. Um, so those are the two big things happening as far as giveaways go. Um, there's a few other things that I want to bring to you guys um regarding the app, okay, the Trailer Hustle app. Now, join it, of course, just for the giveaway, sure, but there's also some pretty cool things on there. If you're like, eh, I don't see the point in networking or I don't see this or that, guys. It's totally free now. It is free. Now, when the thing pops up and says, You want this subscription point or this subscription point, just scroll down, click continue for free. Okay, it's not a big deal. Um, very easy. Now, if you want to support Trailer Hustle, if you can afford five bucks a month, hey, thank you so much for the support. That helps me continue to do this stuff and continue to build relationships with other companies and travel around and get deals done and bring more things to you guys. So thank you so much. Um, and also there's more tools that you get aside from just supporting Trailer Hustle. Um, you get the maintenance logs, you get the documentation uploads, um, you get a little bit more customization options when it comes to the the way that your pin looks on there and more visibility. Uh, and there's a few more things that are coming soon that only the paid members will have access to. Um, there's also um the pro plan, which is more so for like dealerships and companies that really want more expo exposure. They want to show off products, they want to show off services, they want to show off more locations. Um, if you have like you know, a brick and mortar and you have more than one location. Um, so there's a lot more things with the pro plan than with the light plan. Um, and of course, compared to the free plan. But everybody can join the giveaways, everybody can join this car hauler giveaway from the trailer spot, um, and the rest of the giveaways that I'm sponsoring that Big Rentals is sponsoring, that Ride Dog is sponsoring. Um, so thank you guys so much for participating in all that. But it is totally free, no purchases required. Okay, plain and simple. Now, a cool feature we just added to the app, okay, and this is huge. To my knowledge, there's nobody out there that has this, okay? Uh, there's no company that has it. It's not offered anywhere. There's no way you can do it. And as you guys know, I'll get to it in a second, but as you guys know, one of the big things that I tried to do with this app, with the Trailer Hustle app, is solve a lot of the problems that that were posted about frequently in the group. Like, hey guys, is there anybody in this area that can check on this trailer for me? Well, now you can open up the map, see who's nearby, right? Or hey guys, I'm fully booked, but I got somebody that needs a 20-foot car hauler. Who's got what? Okay, well, now you can open up the app, see who's near you, click their account, see what kind of trailers they have if they've added their trailers, right? Or hey guys, anybody ever heard of this off-brand trailer? Curious if anybody can give me some feedback. Well, now if everybody were to add their trailers and review their own equipment, you can just go straight to the app and go to the review database and start searching. And then you can see who owned that trailer, who left the review, reach out to them for any specific questions you might have. Okay. These are little tools that I think make a big impact. Um, and the same goes with like maintenance logs, you know. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I was doing maintenance logs, you know, here in my notes section or you know, my paper sheets, and it's kind of a pain in the butt. So now I do everything electronically. We are overhauling that here soon, so it's gonna be very, very, very in-depth. Um, well, more in-depth, I should say. Um, and then also we have the doc upload. So you don't have to have all these big, gigantic folders full of stuff. You can save everything to each trailer right here in your phone. So if you need a copy of it, maybe a registration or a title or anything, you know, if a customer needs it or whatever it is, you can upload all your docs uh and have them right there at your fingertips. So if you need something, open up the app, select the trailer that you need the information for, click your docs, grab the dock, you can export it, do whatever you want. So those are great features that you can have. Now, one thing we just added, I don't think anybody has this. I'm pretty confident. We've all heard of Amber alerts or silver alerts. You know, if a kid gets goes missing or uh an endangered adult goes missing or whatever it is, right? Endangered, is that what they call it? Anyway, uh, or somebody with special needs or whatever it is. Well, we now have a feature that you can select in the app. You select your trailer and you can click report stolen. Okay. Now, when you click report stolen on that trailer, it's gonna ask for some more information. It's gonna ask for really specific identifiers, it's gonna ask you for additional info like the plate for other things like uh, you know, where it was last seen or where your GPS showed it last or whatever. So you're gonna plug in all this information that's gonna come to me and the team here at Trailer Hustle, which is a very small team, but we get to things quickly usually, as you guys know. And I'm gonna reach out to you, I'm gonna ask you some additional questions, and then I'm going to submit, based on where that trailer was last seen, I'm going to submit a push notification to all app users in, you know, probably within 800 miles, a thousand miles, 500 miles, you know, based on the conversation and how long it's been gone and all that kind of stuff. And the point of this is all app users will boom, they're gonna get that notification, they're gonna be able to be on the lookout for the trailer. And let's let's face it, if you've reported a trailer stolen, especially if a a renter had it and the police aren't really doing a whole lot, or say you got a police report done and whatever, and you know, the chances of you getting it back are pretty slim in a lot of cases, and a lot of times it's like, okay, a stolen trailer, whatever. There, nobody's really gonna care. But we, as trailer owners in this community, you guys know we're always looking at trailers, right? It's kind of like you buy a blue truck, you never saw a blue truck before, now you see them everywhere. It's kind of the same thing, okay? So we are always on the lookout. So if we see that notification, we look at those photos, we see your profile, and we, you know, we kind of get our eye on it. Well, if we see that, we know that we got that notification because it could be in our area, we're gonna be on the lookout, you know, just kind of subconsciously as we're doing things. And if I were to see a trailer, wait a second, that looks familiar. Was that that trailer? I can go to the notifications in the app, boom. If it's not find that stolen uh trailer report notification, boom. Go straight to you and say, hey, man, I just saw the trailer, here's where it's at, yada yada yada, or call the police. Hey, there's uh stolen trailer notification in this trailer hustle mobile app that I use. Somebody reported it stolen. This is what it is. Here's the information about that trailer, so you can confirm. I see it right here, blah, blah, blah. The whole point is to get people's equipment back quicker. So this is uh we're gonna come up with a name for it, but right now it's you know some kind of something alert. Um, but we're, you know, we're gonna we'll we'll figure that out. But uh right now it's just a stolen trailer report uh that you can do. And you can, of course, cancel it. You can, of course, click that it's been recovered and you know, let the community know that it's been done. You're not gonna get a million push notifications from this, by the way, guys. So don't be afraid of the notifications in the app. There's not a lot of notifications that hit you, um, like a lot of them, um, advertisements and just weird stuff like that. Um, but if it's something that's important or can help the community, it's really, really worth it to have your notifications turned on in the app. So if you do recover your trailer, awesome. You go in there and just click trailer recovered, or you just cancel it if you know it's been recovered, but it's total, or where you got it back, whatever the deal is, you just cancel it and you know we'll make sure we get in there and we change things up as well for you. But super, super cool feature. And we've got a handful more features that are like that that are coming out very soon. Now, um, there was also a recent bug where people were having a hard time, including myself, updating profile photos. That's also been fixed. As you guys know, anytime there's an update, when you'll open the app and it says you must update, it's because we're fixing bugs that come up. You know, we want to fix them quickly. I try not to let and you guys comment below, tell me what you think about this. I try not to let a dozen bugs pop up and then do one big update. I'd rather like handle them quick. You know, if there's one bug bug in one person, no pun intended, I want to handle it right then and there. I don't want to let a bunch of them build up over a six-week period and then put out an update that fixes a bunch of them. I'll just fix them as we go. Um, so tell me below, do you guys prefer that? Or, you know, do you want to see more, you know, you know, less updates? I don't think the updates really impact anything, uh, in my opinion. So um, it takes two seconds. You know, you update the app really quick and great. And a lot of times you guys aren't even experiencing anything. The poor Android users, I'm so sorry, guys. The Android users have had such a hard time. And that's my fault. It's my fault. Growing pains with building an app, never done it before, okay. But um, I have recently changed teams again, and uh it's man, it's been really good. Be able to get things out much quicker than ever before. Um, so I'm very excited about that. So, guys, you want to be a part of this thing, okay? So go to the trailer hustle app, go to trailerhustle.com for the links, or just search trailer hustle in your app store, download it, go to the Facebook group and enter this giveaway, okay, for this bulletproof hitches hitch from the trailer spot. All right, do not sleep on that giveaway. Also, go into the trailer hustle app right now and join the car hauler giveaway as well as all the other giveaways that we have going on in there. Um, I really, really appreciate you guys. And guys, guys, by the way, please add your trailers, man. I want to I want, you know, let's add your trailers. Let's use this thing for why we're building it. Okay, all these things that I explained earlier, these are all things that are very, very, very important. They help a lot of people. And um, I think it's good for the community. So let's uh let's keep growing. Let's use this thing for the way it's designed. Thank you guys so much for all your support. I'm very, very grateful for you. Um, and uh yeah, looking forward to keeping this thing rolling. Um, we'll have some more announcements coming later this week. In the meantime, thank you guys for being here. This is the Trailer Owners Network. I will talk to you all soon. One more shout out to the trailer spot. Be sure to check the link below so that you guys can check them out. Like and follow and all that good stuff. All right. Love, love, guys. Have a great day.