'Uber' For Wooden Pallets: How I Make $216K/Year With Zero Employees

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is John Wilker, founder of The Simplest Biz Since 1998 I have been running an under-the-radar business model that requires low overhead and is very non-technical. The Simplest Biz is a wooden pallet recycling business done in a very streamlined way. It enables me to make extremely high-profit margins, and most importantly, I only work a few hours a day to make a good living.

I have no employees and no brick-and-mortar location. I acquire hundreds of pallets daily for free from businesses that no longer need them and then sell them to businesses that require them to ship out their inventory.

I do not repair, lift, or store the pallets I am acquiring. The best way to describe my business is: I am an Uber driver for pallets. But instead of having just one passenger in my back seat, I have 150 passengers (pallets) that are placed on the back of my non CDL 12 ft by 8 ft truck.

I drive these passengers approximately three blocks and drop them off. Each so-called passenger pays me, on average, $8 to $12 each. Best of all, unlike a real passenger, they do not throw up in my backseat at 2 AM. Lastly, a whole set of new...