Between your two jobs when do you plan to do removals?
Anyway, you'll need a 1 ton vehicle. Most people who move and need a truck have furniture. If people just have personal stuff then an ordinary car will do it in one or two trips.
Have a look at the prices that others are charging in your area. That's about the same price you'll get too.
You won't need a website. Self-emloyed removalists don't get customers that way. Just post up lots of ads on notice boards in the colleges around you. Run some ads in the local newspaper of the colleges, run ads in the local newspaper too. Paint your number on the side of the vehicle.
Insurance, breakage costs, your wage, vehicle running costs, fuel, depreciation, advertising, time lost to inefficiencies, phone costs and cost of vehicle are all the things you'll have to pay for.
Get a spreadsheet and work through the costs. You need to come up with an hourly cost of operation about half what you can charge. That'd be about $20 to $30 per hour for charges of $40 to $60 per hour.
Let me warn you that self-employed furniture removalists don't earn lots. It's largely a job without joy and a constant effort to gain clients. The reason for the poor levels of money is that it is so easy to get into and needs no skills apart from driving, so lots of people who can't or won't do anything else do furn. removals.
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