how can I get information about doing trucking business?
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Thousands, just do a search. Go to a truck stop, pick up one of the trade publications, then go to thier web-sites. You will find affiliates listed there.
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Dispatch for what type of transportation? You talk about pizza delivery, and for that I can not help you. You also talk about a broker and owner operators, which is heavy haul trucking. For this you will need your DOT authority. You can not "just dispatch", you will need to operate under your own, or another person or company's authority. If you want your own operating authority, there are many services that will help you get this for a reasonable fee. You will still need the money to pay the owner operators, advances for fuel, insurance ($750,000 to $1,500,000, depending on what type of operation you will run) and various other things. You REALLY need to know the business before you jump in. It has a very high failure rate for several reasons. 1. Under capitalized 2. This business is full of individuals that do not operate ethically. If you are not careful, your money will be gone, and they will still be operating, with someone else they can take advantage of.
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Indiannapolis is a good place to call home if you are a truck driver. Swift, Willis Shaw Frozen Express, Covenant Transport, Stevens Transport and CRST are just a few companies that will pay for your training, promising that you will work for them for a year. I hope you dont have a wife and kids because driving OTR (over the road), the highest paid truck driver, is treated better by the company, has better equipment (the truck will be newer and not prone to break down), you can personalize the truck with TV Internet and the like,and gets steady work. \nYou see the problem with getting home is that the dispatcher has to think about how to get you home. You may be stuck in Atlanta GA and there could be 10 loads available to you going to California but if you need to get home your dispatcher wont give you that $800 trip. you will wait a day probably for a load going to Carlyle PA and then wait another day for a partial load going to Chicago IL. where someone will have to pick it up in Indiannapolis. The best way to make $80k per year is to stay out for atleast 2 months or more and average 1k or more per week. The week that you go home you will probably make 200 bucks. Regional Truck Drivers or Dedicated routes are a set route that the driver does everyday NON OTR. A Job with guaranteed home time, usually pays less and the equipment is older, and slip-seating (its not your truck to move into. once you leave the seat another driver gets in and uses it.) \n\nPersonally I paid $2,700 for CDL training in Denver CO. and choose to go with Willis Shaw Express in Elm Springs, Arkansas. They are a great company to start with (considering all the horror stories I have heard) They Gave me a Great Mack truck to drive and kept my wheels moving (the only way to make money) 27cents per mile to start. And the Small town dispatch was allways friendly and understanding. What I really liked about them was the trippack advance where they would let you have up to 300 in cash in advance for every load you haul. kinda like getting your money up front. After a year and a half I left to drive for JB HUNT for 37cents per mile and all though my paycheck was about the same I drove less and waited more. No more Trips out to California and back. The loads were 200 mile hops between New York and Detroit. The east coast traffic is terrible and there is never anywhere to park.\nGo with a company that Gives you lots of miles west of the mississippi reguardless of the payrate. Covenant Transport Brags that its drivers get the most miles weekly.
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Swift is an awful choice for anybody no matter what experience. The company and its drivers are laughed at in the trucking industry. They are just way to big to be able to care about you and give you the miles and hometime you are going to want every month. My suggestion would be find the smallest company that will let you in the door. You do have to get experience somewhere and having your training paid for up front is nice but there is alot of companies that offer these things. You can go to a site like bubbajunk.com or truckjobs.com and see what companys provide training or go to a truckstop and get a job booklet and make alot of calls and decide who is going to give you the best deal. Stevens Transport I know takes inexperienced drivers but I'm not sure if the cover the training costs, but anyway they are a decent company and there are several like them. Just stay away from swift and when you have some experience get to a small carrier who will get you home and will run you hard when your gone.
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You may want to start by researching info on your state's website first.\n\nCheck out this link: http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/business.html\n\nThis will put you in the right direction in starting your business.\n\nHope this helps you.\n\nGod Bless.
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Are you talking about futures and forwards or just general trucking?  Because futures I gotta type out and trucking well, do this\nhow much do you want to get paid an hour?  \n(let's say $20/hr) multiply it by how many hours will you be working/driving\nhow much will it cost you to deliver the goods? Don't forget gas+insurance+depreciation of vehicle + tolls\nAdd everything together and you have yourself a fee :)\n\nRival
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alot of the areas are with the main distributers and equipment retailers.  you can go to any of the equipment web sites and they have tons of info you can get.
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need more information about the commercial
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I've worked with truck brokers, and I didn't know they had to have a license.  (Are you talking about brokering trips on trucks?  If you're talking about an auto dealer's license, you'll find that on your state-sponsored website under their department of commerce section.)\n\nThe biggest bearier to entry for these guys was contact with all the companies they needed to broker services with, a good managment system to keep track of logistics, and then a working relationship with the local manufacturers and wholesalers.
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You can find basic company information in Hoover's business database. I found this information:\n\nSt Johnsbury Trucking Co Inc \n1311 Union St\nWest Springfield, MA 01089-4024\nPhone: 800-332-9571\n\nThey do long-distance trucking, but they do not do local trucking.
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Go to your Secretary of State website (to find the URL go to your search engine and type "[Name of State] Secretary of State"] They have links on how to do business in the state, and part of that includes the licenses and permits
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best bet is to your local Better Buisness Burea.  They can pass the information along both nationally and internationally.
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Check into Qualcomm's Omnitracks system- it is world wide. The trucking and fishing company's in the USA and Brazil, Russia etc. Use it. Its a satallite tracking system that you can look up your truck on your account on the web- see messages, location etc... Qualcomm- San Diego.
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be more specific\n\ndo u want to learn or just get information about any operation
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http://www.bigrigjobs.com/Local_Trucking_Jobs/IL.html if you are a cdl driver in illinois and want a illinois truck driving job.\n\nif you are a recruiter or something and are looking for a cdl truck driver in illinois, the same site allows you to search through their database.
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Try this:\nhttp://www.whitepages.com/10001/business
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You sound as though you are freelancing this trucking gig.  Get caught and it will be costly.  Are you insured?  Do you have a USDOT number?  If you knew your business, you wouldn't be on here asking a question like that.