Need advice on my new logistics company

You've been told a few times some customers care a lot and some customers do not care at all if there is a passenger in the vehicle picking up or delivering freight. You then proceed to ask other questions and acknowledge that answer but ask the question again. HazMat customers mostly will care very very much about who is coming into the facility and often copy the ID of each person or restrict the people coming in to just the 1 driver authorized for that 1 load. Those HazMat customers and ports are the only customers I've experienced making a non-driver wait at the guard shack. SOME food shippers might record the ID of the people in the vehicle but most do not. NOBODY can guarantee what WE have experienced is what YOU will experience. One terrorist event happening next week and it may be like during covid when customers enforced rules like each one was a nuclear power plant, even if they were only shipping potato chips.

The beauty of working for a company doing what you want to do is you EXPERIERNCE the reality of the job BEFORE you start paying for everything. How do you know the job is something you will want to do?

 

Yes. Their place, their rules. You can ask the customer over the phone before you book the load, if the broker gives you customer contact info. "Will it be a problem that my passenger will be with me when I pickup or deliver?" I understand you are the passenger. I understand you are the carrier. Asking that simple question of the customer gives you the answer that applies if you are a passenger.

 

I will explain this again.

You as the owner and the manager of the carrier have to read the regulation, it isn't confusing and it is not about the customer.

Most customer's will not give a crap, the exception is high value, hazmat or government loads but not general freight, and if there is an issue (which I doubt), then there is a simple solution, you wait on the street for the truck to come out of the gate.

But as an owner, I never was told no, even with a Hazmat and high value loads because I represent my company.

You have more of a worry with other issues using box trucks, but then you don't seem to want to hear about that.

Don't forget you have to run under HOS.

 

So tell me something....why not go get your CDL first, be a company driver, learn how the industry works, and then see if this is the right route for you? How long have you been thinking of doing this? This is a whole lifestyle change, and going into the trucking industry as a green business owner can be a culture shock. Hell even if you go in as a company driver, it can be a culture shock.

 

You get a 14 work day. Out of that 14, 11 hrs is drive time. Youll need to buy an electronic looging device(ELD).