Author: Phil

While economic optimists proclaim the recession is over and pessimists warn of more trouble ahead, expedited freight executives are sounding more cheery than they have in a long time… cautious optimism is their common...

By reading your business plan up to this point, people will know you are in the expediting business. In the business type section, you spell out exactly the type of expediting business you are running, and you present it in the...

Remember that writing a business plan is like putting together a puzzle. You work it one piece at a time, and you don't have to start at the top of the list. We are following the outline in order because we can only write...

Seasoned expediters have never seen business conditions this bad. A number of expedite carriers have been forced out of business. Make no mistake, it's rough out there and your competitors are playing for keeps.Four to five...

It may surprise some grizzled veterans of the road to know that white-collar people are as weak-kneed about pre-trip inspections, changing a headlamp, using a pallet jack and driving a truck as some seasoned truck drivers are...

Expediter truck fleet owners are people who own a number of trucks and contract with drivers. In general, the owner purchases and maintains the truck, the drivers run the truck and the revenue earned by transporting expedited...

Most bankers don't have a clue about what it is like to drive a truck and work and live on the road. Some of them would be scared half to death if they found themselves sitting among truckers in the TV lounge of a truck...

This Business Planning for Successful Expediters series is following a business plan outline we introduced in part five. We will talk now about the Business Owners/Managers section, the sixth item in the outline.This Business...