You have the investment. What nobody gives you is the path: where to start, what a real first year looks like, and which mistakes quietly burn through your cash before the first load.
Authority, insurance and permits, in an order that makes sense
What each filing costs and how long it takes
A realistic first year, in dollars, not a sales pitch
How much cash it takes to survive the first ninety days
Which brokers will give a new authority freight at all
Insurance for a brand-new authority, quoted before you buy a truck
The mistakes that cost the most
Buying the truck before getting an insurance quote
Filing out of order and losing weeks to the protest period
Taking the first load at any rate to get moving
Hauling for a broker nobody has checked
Running out of cash in month three
What we do about it
The setup sequence, filing by filing, with what each one costs
A first-year plan with honest expectations
The mistakes to skip, before they cost you
Your first brokers, checked, and your first loads, priced
The fleet owner
“I have the trucks. I don't have the time.”
Driver problems and cash-flow fires eat every hour. Nobody is looking at the bigger picture, so opportunities pass. A breakdown a $1,000 fix would solve becomes a far bigger bill, because there was no time to make the three calls that find the better shop.
No time to compare, so the expensive fix wins every time
No strategic view, so better loads and lanes go unseen
Costs creep up and revenue slips, invisible until month end
Detention earned but never claimed
Paperwork late, so cash arrives late
The mistakes that cost the most
Paying the first shop that answers the phone
Taking the load in front of you instead of the right one
Letting the reload sort itself out on the dock
Invoicing days later with a page missing
Never looking at the week as a whole
What we do about it
Dispatch, brokers, exceptions and paperwork, off your desk
The three calls that find the cheaper fix
The strategic view, every Monday, one change at a time
Costs down because someone has time to optimize. Revenue up because someone is looking.
The $1,000 breakdown
$1,000
A repair a $1,000 fix would solve ends up costing a lot more. Not because the shop was wrong. Because nobody had time to make the three calls that find the better one.
That is the whole business in one sentence. Costs go up when nobody has time to optimize. Revenue slips when nobody is looking. We make the calls, and we look, every Monday.