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Tim Brady, Business Coach & Mentoring Service
You can’t afford giving up valuable time sitting in a classroom for two or three days, or traveling to a location that doesn’t provide you the revenue to keep your operation humming. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t times you need someone to bounce ideas off of or have questions about challenges you face in your day-to-day operations. How can you do this without paying a large sum of your hard-earned cash or taking time away from your business? The answer: Tim Brady, Business Coach and Mentoring Service Now, if you've got questions or a situation you’d like to discuss with a trucking expert, this new "On The Road’ service can help you – and you won’t have to leave your truck or office. Tim Brady, a successful trucking business owner of over 20 years, a ‘Trucking Business Expert’ on Sirius Road Dog Radio’s Lockridge Report, and Business Editor for “American Trucker Magazine” is now available. You have a choice of two different programs. The Trucking Business Coach - An 'as you need it' service. View Details Client TestimonialsWow! Tim is very good at what he does. The How to Negotiate with a Trucking Company program saved me from making what would have been a financial disaster. My wife and I learned by having the correct questions and the skills to ask them in the right order is invaluable when talking with a trucking company.--B.C., GA Going through the Trucker’s Business Coaching program has changed my life. Tim worked with me teaching me how to figure my costs, how to set my hauling rates, and then how to negotiate with both shippers and brokers to get the rate I need to make a profit. It's been like going from night into day, and Tim made it simple to understand. --S.R., MI I want to thank Mr. Brady in assisting our trucking company in retaining one of our best contract truckers. This driver was frustrated and ready to head to another company. He contacted and engaged Mr. Brady on his own to assist him in finding another company to drive for. At Mr. Brady's suggestion and help our driver came to us and laid out his issues in such a way we could completely understand his situation. He had all his revenue and expense numbers laid out so it was obvious he wasn't getting the revenue he required. We are now diligently working to get this and our other drivers revenue up where it needs to be. It's not easy, but when you can see where you need to go it helps. Thank you Mr. Brady--S.K., Missouri I would have never believed it! Tim suggesting I try and work things out, rather than bolting. But that's exactly what he did. He worked with me helping me to understand what the relationship between my expenses and revenue was, and what levels they needed to come up to so I could send the money I needed to the house. Frankly, I figured going to the company was going to be a waste of time, But Tim pointed out it was better to exhaust all options there before going else where. Bottom line is--they listened and responded, and the results have been short of miraculous. My revenue is up, I'm not behind on my mortgage or anything else, life is good.--J.S., Missouri “I’ve been in this business a lot of years, and I’m still learning something new every week,” one owner/operator said, after having been on board for a number of the workshops. The workshop is taped as it occurs, which puts current, real-world solutions for problems in each I.C.E. (In—Cab Education) Workshop. Professional experienced trucking company owners contribute to the brainstorming and share hands-on answers. “I’m glad our trucking management trainee has found you. I don’t mind investing in the Trucking Business Community; I think it can augment our business very nicely. He needed to hear it from someone who speaks his language. Corporate executives, like myself, have a different language than a trucker; because of this I was speaking the wrong language to him. He can really relate to the trucking side; he’s very talented and bright, but he didn’t understand the business side of it. This is where we were coming at odds. You have to understand the business side before you can be a success. He knows how to drive, how to operate the equipment and get it from point A to point B, which is extremely important. But in order to make it a successful company, he’s got to have that business grasp. And that’s the bridge which you and the Trucking Business Community provide.”— “Since we started with the Trucking Business Community the communication part with our drivers has made a difference. It’s gotten everyone settled. We hired a dispatcher so I could concentrate on other activities, like finding customers. But our drivers wouldn’t talk to the new dispatcher; whether they stubbed a toe, had a flat tire or their load number was bad, they had to talk to me. Tim and the Trucking Business Community helped us work through it so the drivers now call our dispatcher. The Trucking Business Community and Tim have become very valuable to us, as it has freed me up to grow our business. In the past year we’ve almost doubled our fleet, when most trucking companies are cutting back.”— |
As the owner of a motor carrier you need to be either in the office dealing with the daily challenges of owning a trucking company or on the road hauling shipments to paying customers. |