1. Find good location – find easily accessible location
2. Have conference room
3. Be sure to give your employees their own space
20. Provide Your Drivers With Good Quality Truck Bed And Truck Seats
Like I mention before safety goes always in the first place. The truck bed and the truck seat can affect the performance of your truck drivers to perform safe transport which for certain will affect your safety rating.
The drivers need to have good night sleep and when they get up need to have the energy to drive carefully for long hours. Fatigue and exaction are number one enemy of the trucking business. When starting trucking company be sure that the trucks are equipped with comfortable bed and seats.
21. Create A Website For Your Business
These days every information that we need first we search online. Newspapers, Flyers are not that useful like 15 years ago when most of the ads and company information were placed on a piece of paper. We live in a modern world so be sure you have your place in.
Source: www.happyapple.co.za
Imagine this: you are a new company but you have a great website with a lot of information about the trucking services you providing and on the other side there is a trucking company that is in this business 5 years but only information that you can find is the name of the company and phone number. If you where in the customer shoes which company would you contact first?
22. Be Active On Social Media
Social media like Facebook, Linkedin, Twiter … are a powerful tool that can only help your business to go in the right direction. You can use the internet in different ways to expose your brand and most important it is for free so… why not try it.
23. Be A Pet Friendly Trucking Company
When you staring trucking company finding good truck drivers can be difficult but there is a way to get some of these guys in your trucking army. Have pet policy and some of the best truck drivers will become part of your company.
Source: www.roadking.com
Some trucking companies build a brand based on their pet policy:
