FU·003 · Book · 40 pages
The End of Trucking in America
Why America's Small Carriers Are Dying, and the Circular System That Can Save Them.
A warning, and a way out.
About the book
What it's about
In brief: small carriers are failing because they enter a system built for someone else to win. The book traces the causes, from repair and downtime to the insurance spiral, fraud and double-brokering, then gives the cure: circular logistics, where every decision is judged by whether it helps the company still be here in five years.
This is a warning, written because good, hardworking people keep putting everything they own into a truck and losing it within a year. Not because they were lazy, and not because the freight disappeared, but because the system they entered was built for someone else to win.
The book traces how it happens, from the boom that was a trap to the maintenance blade, the insurance spiral, fraud and double-brokering, and virtual trucking. Then it turns to the cure: circular logistics, a way of operating where every decision is judged by one question, will this help me still be here five years from now?
What you'll learn
Five things to take away
- Who actually moves America, and why the small carrier is the most exposed link
- How maintenance, downtime and insurance turn a good month into a closed company
- How fraud, double-brokering and chameleon carriers prey on new operators
- What circular logistics is, and the survival loop it creates
- Why education is the hub of the fix, and what the HD-RTFA asks of Washington
Inside
Chapter highlights
Who actually moves America.
Maintenance, downtime and the big surprise repair.
The insurance spiral you cannot outrun.
Fraud, double-brokering and the chameleons.
Keeping the truck and the company alive.
Why this is a problem education can solve.
Built into Freight University
Keep the carrier alive and growing.
Freight University exists because of the last chapters of this book: education is the hub. The training is free so a carrier fighting to stay open never has to buy the knowledge that keeps it open, and every lesson points at the same goal, a company that survives, then moves forward and grows.
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FAQ
Questions about this book
Is this book only bad news?
No. The first chapters diagnose the problem; the last chapters are the cure, circular logistics, explained well enough to start using it.
Where do the numbers come from?
The book cites sources such as the American Transportation Research Institute, the FMCSA and the American Trucking Associations, and says so where a figure is uncertain.
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