Getting your own contracts

You are speaking basically of being your own dispatcher / broker if i am reading this correctly. There is a LOT of information about doing this on the good ole World Wide Web. DO NOT go through a "broker" school, or pay for this. It CAN be found through some persistant digging. I will assume that your husband already has an MC number and all necessary licensures, is bonded, and is adequately insured.

First, you may wish to check out the different load boards that are posted on the net. Since I cannot make links to them in this forum, you will have to use Google to find em. The most popular of them is Internet Truckstop and Get Loaded. You will want to subscribe to these, there is a monthly fee. Study them to see what going rates are for your area. When you are comfortable with, and understand what you can charge for the commodity you are hauling, you will have an idea of your pricing when approaching a prospective customer. YOU MUST HAVE AN IDEA OF YOUR PRICING BEFORE APPROACHING A CUSTOMER ! ! !

As a quasi-broker, you will have to do a BUNCH of cold calling to companies that will need your services. Speak to the Traffic, Shipping/Recieving, Logistics managers. They are the ones that will make the decisions on who to use. You will quote price by the mile. There is typically a flat rate and then any other fees that may apply. Fuel Surcharge, Tarping, special handling, haz mat considerations, etc etc etc.

As far as standard contracts, again use this wonderful resource at your fingertips and do a search on google for "standard trucking contracts" or the like, you will have to DIG DIG DIG to find one.

I have worked out of my home as an agent for several different brokerages, I taught myself the trade and did fairly ok. It is defianatly a dawg eat dawg world out there. You have one advantage, you have your OWN trucks to work with.

I hope this helps a wee bit, I am not going to do the work for you but I can certainly point you in the right direction. I left the brokerage game to persue a different dream, and that is to drive trucks. If you have more questions, please ask, I will do my best to point you in the right direction.

Best of luck..........

 

You probably would get better results if you post this in the "owner operator" section of the forum
here
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/ask-an-owner-operator/

They would know more there how to help you..

Ask a mod to move your question to that section..

 

How do you get contracts for your box truck. Me and my wife just bought a 26' footer. Just wanna know is there a faster ,or better way to get courier jobs as a owner operator in Atlanta. ..

 

Were can I obtain Dump truck hauling contracts from?

Robyn

 

Hi how are you doing ? Hope you find some infos about your question because I have the same question .
Please if u have any update let me know , thank you