Have freight markets turned? ATBS replace set for March 25

It is that point of yr once more — the Mid-America Trucking Present is about to convene 1000’s of homeowners and operators on the Louisville, Kentucky, conference middle beginning March 27. And proper on time, enterprise service agency ATBS will host its twice-yearly replace on owner-operator consumer income, prices, and revenue efficiency with a purpose of serving to chart the course ahead for higher income this yr.

On Tuesday, March 25, at 5 p.m. Central, 6 Japanese, and three Pacific tune into the agency’s reside „Unbiased Contractor Benchmarks and Tendencies“ on-line session for shut evaluation of all of the monetary tendencies that matter for owner-operators within the trucking business. Final yr, the agency notes, proved to be one of many harder years for trucking in current reminiscence.

How troublesome? The numbers will inform the story, but additionally present solutions to the query on so many an owner-operator’s thoughts: Have we turned the nook but?

You may register for the reside session through this hyperlink — ATBS plans to recap 2024 and reply a wide range of questions:

• What are the most recent miles, charges, gasoline prices, and upkeep tendencies?
• Has owner-operator revenue „bottomed out“? 
• The place does owner-operator capability stand? 
• How did the decline in gasoline prices during the last yr assist owner-operator money stream in a troublesome market?
• Will 2025 be a greater yr, finally, for owner-operators?

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ATBS is coproducer of Overdrive’s Companions in Enterprise coaching and persevering with biz-education program, a complete useful resource on owner-operator enterprise, from begin to end. We have partnered with the agency to supply PIB for greater than twenty years. The day previous to the session, regulate the Companions in Enterprise foremost hub at OverdriveOnline.com/pib. There on March 24 you may discover a brand-new format for the entire content material that made up the 100-plus-page handbook in 2024 — and many in the best way to new updates. For this yr’s huge PIB launch, Companions in Enterprise will go from a single-download pdf format to a way more dynamic on-line content material library, simply accessed on any smartphone, pill or laptop computer/desktop pc. 

The reorganization of the PIB playbook for enterprise collects priceless techniques and methods for long-term owner-operator profitability in seven classes, charting the journey of homeowners from start-up by means of to retirement: 

1. Beginning line — enterprise construction, motivation, owner-operator fundamentals
2. Tools and upkeep — from truck procurement to down-and-dirty PM and restore techniques
3. Enterprise administration — methods to know prices, income and bedrock income
4. Security and compliance — the nuts and bolts and finer factors of security and regulation
5. Trucking and different insurance coverage — from methods to avoid wasting on liability-coverage prices for independents to affording medical health insurance
6. Taxes — the place ATBS experience actually shines, given the agency’s lengthy accounting/tax-filing expertise delivering owner-op financial savings
7. Independence and development — getting authority, constructing and managing the client base, rising a small fleet 
8. End line — the best way to save and make investments early to higher benefit from the fruits of lengthy labor put into the enterprise 

We hope you may take a flip by means of the brand new Companions in Enterprise come March 24. bookmark this web page to maintain tuned. 

When you missed ATBS’s final semi-annual benchmarking replace six months in the past, take a run again by means of it through the video model of the presentation under or entry it through this hyperlink.