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Expedite pays for being available. Everything about the back office should protect the hours you are available.

Cargo van work is the segment where the rules are lightest and the operating discipline has to be heaviest. Rates move by the hour, the loads are small and frequent, and the entire margin depends on how fast you can see a board, price a run, and get the invoice out. Which is exactly the work that gets skipped when you are the one driving.

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The numbers that decide the rulebook

Four thresholds worth knowing before you buy the next piece of equipment.

10,001 pounds

The threshold that changes everything. A van rated under 10,001 pounds is generally not a commercial motor vehicle under the federal definition, so the hours of service and electronic logging rules do not reach it. Most cargo vans sit below the line.

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$300,000

Insurance minimum below the line. For hire non hazardous property under a 10,001 pound rating carries a $300,000 minimum, not $750,000.

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Sprinter 3500 and up

Where operators get caught. Add a heavier chassis, a trailer, or an upfit and the rating can cross 10,001 pounds. On the other side of that line you owe logs, driver files, and $750,000 in coverage.

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USDOT and MC

Registration is still required. Operating authority and a USDOT number are still required for interstate for hire operation regardless of where the rating falls.

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Nothing on this page is legal, tax, insurance, or regulatory advice. Confirm applicability for your specific equipment with your own advisors.

What we run

The office work, specific to this equipment.

What	How we run it
Board coverage	Someone watching expedite boards and load offers during your driving hours instead of at the end of them.
Rate discipline	A floor per mile and per hour set with you, and a refusal to book under it when a board looks thin at four in the afternoon.
Repositioning	Return and next load planned before the current delivery, so the empty leg is a decision rather than a surprise.
Rating verification	The van rating documented and re checked whenever the equipment changes, so you know which rulebook you are actually under.
Same day invoicing	The proof of delivery, the photos, and the accessorials submitted the day the load closes, because a fast segment cannot afford a forty day receivable.
Contract and packet management	Broker packets, certificates, and carrier agreements kept current so a new customer is a phone call and not a week.

Full obligation by obligation breakdown of what stays legally yours on the who owns what page.

Pricing for this equipment

10 percent of gross, with a $400 weekly minimum per active truck.

The minimum is what the office costs to staff. The percentage is what it costs when the office is working well. Commission is calculated on gross freight revenue including linehaul, fuel surcharge, detention, layover, and truck ordered not used. Documented pass throughs such as lumpers, tolls, and permits are excluded.

The back office runs alongside it at $1,100 a month for the company, $300 per active truck, and $100 per active driver.

Start with a phone call

Bring the van rating, the states you will cover, and the hours you are actually willing to run. We will build a floor and work the boards to it.

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