Send us the plans. You get a priced, bid-ready estimate back in 24 to 48 hours, in the format your bid needs. No estimator on payroll. No software to buy. No hiring, no ramp-up, no sick days.
Every hour on a takeoff is an hour off the tools or away from your family. And the bids you never got to are jobs somebody else won by default.
You finished on site at five. Then the drawings came out at nine and you were still measuring at eleven. Nobody got into this trade to do arithmetic at midnight.
An invitation lands, the deadline is Friday, and there is no time to price it properly. So you skip it. That is a job you lost without a competitor even beating you.
Rushed numbers get missed. A quantity is short, a wastage factor is wrong, and you carry the difference for the whole job. The cheapest bid you ever wrote cost you the most.
Not a quote for a quote. Actual finished work, from actual jobs. Look at the detail before you send us anything.
Client names and project addresses removed. Yours would be too.
No account to make. No software to learn. Email us a set of plans and get on with your day.
PDF, a link, or a set of photos. Tell us the trade and when you need it. If the drawings are half-finished, send them anyway.
We come back with what we will count, what we will leave out, the cost, and the date. You approve it before any work starts.
Marked-up drawings and a priced breakdown, in your format, ready to bid. Want a rate changed? Revisions are included until it matches your bid.
A full-time estimator is a $70,000-plus commitment before the first number lands on your desk. Here is the same job, both ways.
| Estimator on payroll | The Second Truck | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | $65,000–$90,000 a year, loaded | From $100 per estimate |
| Ready when? | 4–6 weeks to hire and settle in | Today |
| Turnaround | Whatever else is on their desk | 24–48 hours |
| Quiet month | You pay them anyway | You send nothing, you pay nothing |
| Busy month | One person, one pair of hands | Send as many as you like |
| Risk | Hiring, turnover, holidays, sick days | No contract, stop whenever |
Commercial and residential. New build and renovation. If it has drawings, we can count it.
We confirm the scope and the cost in writing first. You approve it, or you walk away having paid nothing. And if the estimate does not match how you bid, we keep revising it until it does.
Tell us the trade and the deadline. We will come back with the price and the date before anything starts.
Not ready to send plans? Ask for the sample pack and look at a full estimate end to end first.
We never sell or share your details.
Would rather just email?
hello@thesecondtruck.com