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Blog: money, carrier data and diesel for small fleets
Short articles for US trucking carriers. Every one has a table, a picture and a free tool you can run on your own numbers. Facts come from our own pages and public data, and example numbers are labelled.
What short pay really costs a 10-truck fleet
A yearly walk through short pays and unbilled detention, lumper and layover, using clearly labelled example numbers.
True RPM vs the posted rate
The same $1,850 load as a posted rate, a rate per all mile and a profit per mile, with every step of the arithmetic.
TONU: when you are owed it
A cancellation window, three records and a separate invoice: how carriers claim TONU after a cancelled load.
Road works and weather on your lanes
Work-zone feeds, NWS alerts and NOAA history for freight lanes, with invented delay arithmetic and the limits of each source.
FMCSA revocations and insurance lapses
Revocation orders, cancellation dates and filings by form, with the limits of what a register can tell you.
How to read a USDOT record
Status, authority, update date, safety rating and out-of-service rates, with national FMCSA counts for each field.
Diesel seasonality: season or place?
A monthly index and a regional price gap from EIA weekly history, with what a small fleet can and cannot do about it.
Detention evidence in 5 minutes
Terms, arrival, check-in, out time and notice: what to capture at the dock and why each one decides the claim.
Broker pays late: pay or wait?
Wait, quick-pay or factor? One invented $2,400 invoice, the fees, the cost of money and the day waiting stops winning.
Border crossings and ports
Top ports by truck count, seasonality and the honest limits: the data counts trucks, not waiting time.
7 signs of double brokering
Seven red flags, a pre-pickup check and a message to send, with an invented example of how the money gets stuck.
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