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    How to Start a Trucking Company: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Trucking Company
    How to Start a Trucking Company: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Trucking Company
    How to Start a Trucking Company: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Trucking Company
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    How to Start a Trucking Company: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Trucking Company

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    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!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHowExpert
    Release dateDec 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465973153
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      How to Start a Trucking Company - HowExpert

      How to Start a Trucking Company

      Your Step By Step Guide to To Starting a Trucking Company

      HowExpert Press & Marilyn Coleman

      Copyright HowExpert.com

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Paperwork

      Chapter 2: Getting Freight

      Chapter 3: Equipment

      Chapter 4: Drivers

      Chapter 5: Owner/Operators vs. Company Drivers

      Chapter 6: Office Personnel

      Chapter 7: Maintenance And Inspections

      Chapter 8: Trademark Your Business Name

      Chapter 9: Marketing Your Business

      Chapter 10: Trucking Software

      Chapter 11: Benefits To Having A Trucking Company

      Conclusion

      About the Expert

      Recommended Resources

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      Introduction

      Are you ready to start your own trucking company? How to Start a Trucking Company is a guide that will show you step-by-step how to open and operate a trucking company. It will give you all the tools needed to accomplish this goal.

      Operating a trucking company is something many truck drivers dream of doing and many succeed. Whether they are a LLC or are incorporated, there are steps that everyone must take in order to accomplish this goal. As a whole, the trucking industry can be very lucrative, if you know what you are doing.

      There are plenty of former drivers and even current drivers that decide to take their career as drivers further and open a trucking business. As you get deeper into the industry, you will find that there are plenty of companies (large and small), but there is a shortage of drivers. This guide will teach you to find qualified drivers.

      With the right tools, you can have a successful business within six months. You will learn how to obtain freight, drivers, equipment, and office space for your business. After going through the steps in this guide, you should be able to have your company up and running within a month.

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      Chapter 1: Paperwork

      Apply for your operating authority

      To apply for your operating authority:

      Determine what type of freight you want to haul and find the operating authority that coincides with it.

      Fill out all online forms that are required.

      Determine

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