Trucking Business Web Courses

Current Offering:
Introduction to Trucking Business WebCourse

Pre-Registration Here (Register for a WebCourse in the future)
(You will have the opportunity to pay your tuition after registering or to return later to make your tuition payment.)

TESTIMONIALS

Pay Tuition & Register Here $100.00 for all 4 Sessions

Check our WebCourse Schedule here

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What is the "Introduction to Trucking Business" WebCourse?
And who should take it?

Can you answer these four questions concerning your trucking business?

• Do you know your Break-Even Points on each piece of equipment in your operation?
• Do you know the amount of cash required to grow your trucking operation at a sustainable rate?
• Do you understand the market(s) you serve, and how its future growth or decline will affect your growth plans?
• Do you have a hauling rate range which takes all of this into consideration, and will help you sustain your market position and achieve the growth you have planned?

It’s necessary to know the answers to all four of these questions in order to move forward in the “New Economy.” Trucking is going through one of the most significant changes in its history. Only twice in trucking’s recent past has change affected the entire industry as much; in 1937, when the first Hours of Service rules were implemented and the Interstate Commerce Commission was formed, and again in the late 70’s and early 80’s when deregulation occurred. Now with the economy trying to pick up the pieces, new environmental regulations being placed on the industry, and truck and highway safety regulations continuing to evolve, the need to run a tight, lean, mean, hauling machine is the only road to success.

TruckersU.com is offering a quick and simple means to getting your small motor carrier on track: “The Introduction to Trucking Business.” This is not a beginners’ course, but a course on how to operate your trucking company successfully in the New Economy.

These weekly 2-hour sessions over a 4-week period will cover the needed details of how to get your motor carrier running in the black.

• Session One will cover the hows and whys of figuring your Break-Even Points. 
  
• Session Two will cover how to determine your capitalization requirements to grow your company at a sustainable rate.
  
• Session Three will help you be sure the market you plan on serving will support your costs and growth needs.
  
• Session Four will help you determine what your hauling rate range needs to be in order to be successful.

Each 2-hour class is presented in the proven In-Cab Education™ framework of our remote learning system. The entire basis of this system increases your knowledge of business without taking you away from your business. You participate from the comfort of your office or the cab of your truck through cell phone and internet access technology. Each course will be presented on 4 consecutive Wednesdays. Courses will be repeated every 4 weeks.

Check our WebCourse Schedule here to find the one which fits into your busy calendar.

Pre-Registration Here (Register for a WebCourse in the future)
(You will have the opportunity to pay your tuition after registering or to return later to make your tuition payment.)

Pay Tuition & Register Here

$100.00 for all 4 Sessions

TESTIMONIALS

A few months ago I took your “Introduction to Trucking Business” WebCourse at TruckersU.com. I am a new business owner and looking for a class that would speak to my needs as an owner operator. The class was user friendly and I learned a lot about how to determine my real costs and how to set goals for my business in order to grow. Keep up the good work, I look forward to part 2 !

Stephen L Deas aka Mousey (CB handle)
Deas Trucking LLC

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Carving A New Niche
To be successful in trucking, you must be good at a job not many others like to do.

In July, 2009, Ashton Express made the change from the Expedited field to the dry bulk hauling industry. Expedited is a specialized hauling niche that caters primarily to the Auto/truck manufacturing Industry. [But] with the weak economy comes slow Auto/Truck sales and a very slow market for expedited.

The Bulk Hauling Industry seems to stay steady. All manufacturing begins with raw materials, usually in bulk. Not just mechanical manufacturing, [but] food products, and feeds, and items needed for everyday living; power, fuel, water filtration and even waste. People still eat and produce waste in a slow economy.

The bulk trailer we pull is a specialized unit that can haul most bulk products. A coal chute or metering gate can let the product flow at a controlled rate into a hopper or onto a belt conveyer to a storage area.

The tailgate itself is a dual-opening unit that can operate as a normal end dump or it can be swung all the way open and out of the way for dumping large bulk material such as scrap metals. Also, with the gate swung out of the way, the trailer can be backed to a loading dock and palletized freight can be loaded onto the trailer by forklift.
With all these capabilities, we feel that this will give us the edge we need to stay in business and profitable. These ideas were learned from Tim Brady and the Trucking Business Community.

Paul and Gail Morrison
Ashton Express