Independent Carrier Group

The purpose is not to control us independents but more of a collaboration of ideas, to help better our industry. Each of us have different approaches as to how to succeed in our business. A few of us are doing as you say, myself included, but many more are running their business's the wrong way. I envision this group as a place for independents new and old to aide each other with connections to improve our bottom lines and eliminating the word backhaul altogether.

 

So far the independent carriers that have been coming to our conference calls have been sharing ideas with one another. We are all surprised at what we are learning from each other, nobody has given up any of their secret connections. This is why we started our group so that we could bounce ideas off of each other without worrying about brokers or shippers looking or listening in. So far it has been a good experience for all of us small carriers in the bulk arena. We actually have some dry van, reefer, and flat bed carriers joining in now as well. I find it interesting that we each have knowledge to improve our industry, and that we can improve it by working with each other instead of against each other.