My advice to anyone getting their motor carrier authority would be to create a relationship with a CPA. I have been using the same CPA to do my taxes since the first year of getting my authority. My first-year profit and loss numbers were a clear sign that a […]
When I first got started working with freight brokers in 2011, I was averaging more than 200 nights away from home each year. My primary strategy at that time was to go from one hot market to another hot market, chasing the highest-paying loads. At the beginning of 2015, […]
When demand for trucks slows down, like it does every year during this time, the trend among many owner-operators is to pre-book loads to stay employed until the really good stuff comes out in later in the year. If it’s a broker’s market, then I try to spend less […]
After 10 years in the Marine Corps and 3 years as a professional driver, I decided to start my own trucking business in 2010. Over the years, I’ve been running my business based on four important lessons that I learned as a Marine.
4 things the Marines taught me about […]
The spot market will likely be the same as it is every year around this time: From January to about the end of March, it will most likely be slow. There won’t be the volatility that we saw at the beginning of 2018, because that was a result of […]
