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HOWEXPERT VIDEO BOOK - How To Start a Trucking Company
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HOWEXPERT VIDEO BOOK - How To Start a Trucking Company

Your Step By Step Guide To Starting a Trucking Company
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 6/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Business Skills

Course content

1 section10 lectures1h 0m total length
  • Chapter 1: Paperwork15:40
  • Chapter 2: Getting Freight6:05

    Identify available freight in your area and determine equipment and region to keep trucks busy. Research customers, write proposals, and assess competition to win contracts.

  • Chapter 3: Equipment8:53

    Determine your equipment needs and explore leasing options, licenses, plates, and fuel cards. Implement satellite tracking to monitor freight, trucks, and trailers.

  • Chapter 4: Drivers10:01
  • Chapter 5: Owner/Operators Vs Company Drivers2:52
  • Chapter 6: Office Personnel6:29
  • Chapter 7: Maintenance and Inspections3:55
  • Chapter 8: Trademark Your Business Name1:51
  • Chapter 9: Marketing Your Business2:15
  • Chapter 10: Trucking Software2:05

Requirements

  • Basic Knowledge of Business

Description

If you want to learn the basics of having a trucking company business, then get "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, the contract with certain customers and how to write a proposal to a company to haul their freight. Analyzing your competition is a great section that 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 information on how to apply for financing from SBA and grants from other government agencies and 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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Who this course is for:

  • Everyone who is interested in Business