How to Start a Trucking Company

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Trucking Company

De: HowExpert Press

Narrado por: Sam Slydell

If you want to learn the basics of having a trucking company business, then download How to Start a Trucking Company which is written by a person with real life experience starting a trucking company business. How to Start a Trucking Company is a guide designed to help anyone who is interested in starting a trucking business. In this guide you will learn how to operate your company the right way. This guide will take you step by step through the whole process, from start to finish. Whether you decide to start with one truck or 150 trucks, you can use the information in this guide to put you on the right path. This guide discusses the first step to take after you have made the decision to open a trucking company. You will learn how to obtain the paperwork needed to apply for your company name as well as Employer Identification Number. You will be given tips on how to advertise your company and advertise for drivers. New rules for the trucking industry are in a section called CSA 2010, giving you the new information from FMCSA and how it will affect the way most companies are operated. Information pertaining to driver qualifications, physicals, and experience will be discussed. In this guide, you will find out how trucking software helps your company with dispatching, inventory control, personnel time sheets, drivers and equipment. This guide will show you how to obtain freight and how to write a proposal to a company to haul their freight. The section on analyzing your competition tells you how to search for the freight you want to haul and see what other companies are also moving freight for that customer.

Before you do all that is mentioned above, you must first write a business plan and calculate you start up costs. This will be discussed in detail in the first section of this guide. You will find out what the differences between S Corp, C Corp, and LLC, which will be the best for your type of business. There will be information on how to apply for financing from the SBA and other government agencies and how to obtain private financing.

By the time you get to the end of this guide, you should be able to follow each step and have your company ready to open within a month, if not sooner. Good luck!

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Very informative

Gives you a good view on where you need to start when making your game plan on starting your own business.

informational

I learned a few more intricate details in this book's version. A must read or listen!

Don't waist your time.

With information like, you have to get insurance, or the necessary permits are necessary, or your trucking company needs drivers, because it's difficult to move freight without drivers, the book is too elementary for the business minded. If you're thinking about starting a trucking company, you already know this. If you don't know this get a job in the industry first; you're not ready for the business.

Vague at best

If you want to know how to start a trucking company this book is not going to get you to it. The vagueness in this book is an understatement. Doesn’t go into detail about much.