Trucking Business Plan Template
A business plan for a new trucking company that a lender or partner can read, and the numbers to back it: a Word template with eleven sections and plain guidance under each heading, an Excel financial model that turns your assumptions (trucks, miles, rate, deadhead, fuel, driver pay, payments, insurance, funding) into startup costs, a twelve-month projection with cash, and the break-even miles and rate, plus a fillable startup checklist that lists every filing before the first load.
Checkout opens on Stripe. The download page appears the moment payment goes through, and your receipt email carries the link. Digital files only; nothing is shipped.
- Word Trucking-Business-Plan-Template.docx
- Excel Trucking-Startup-Financial-Model-US.xlsx
- Excel Trucking-Startup-Financial-Model-Metric-CA.xlsx
- PDF Trucking-Startup-Checklist-Fillable.pdf
- PDF Business-Plan-Quick-Start.pdf
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A business plan for a new trucking company that a lender or partner can read, and the numbers to back it: a Word template with eleven sections and plain guidance under each heading, an Excel financial model that turns your assumptions (trucks, miles, rate, deadhead, fuel, driver pay, payments, insurance, funding) into startup costs, a twelve-month projection with cash, and the break-even miles and rate, plus a fillable startup checklist that lists every filing before the first load.
WHAT YOU GET
- Trucking Business Plan Template (Word): executive summary, company, services, market, customers and sales, operations, management, financial plan, risk and compliance, milestones, appendix
- Trucking Startup Financial Model (Excel, US and metric/Canadian files): Assumptions, Startup costs against funding, Monthly projection with ramp-up and a chart, Break-even
- Trucking Company Startup Checklist (fillable PDF): formation, USDOT and MC authority, BOC-3, UCR, IRP, IFTA, Form 2290, drug and alcohol program, Clearinghouse, DQF, ELD, insurance, load boards and factoring
- Quick-start PDF
342 formulas across the two workbooks, recalculated and checked for errors before listing; 129 checklist fields.
HOW TO USE
1. Buy, then download on the page that opens right after payment (your Stripe receipt email carries the same link).
2. Workbooks open in Excel 2016 or later, Google Sheets or LibreOffice; PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader or any PDF app with form fields; Word files in Word, Pages or Google Docs.
3. In the workbooks, yellow cells are inputs and grey cells calculate; in the PDFs, type into the boxes or print and write.
PLEASE NOTE
- Digital download only; nothing is shipped. Returns are not possible on digital files; if a file will not open, email [email protected] and it gets fixed.
- Startup cost figures are placeholders typical for a small US carrier; replace them with your own quotes. Requirements change; confirm with FMCSA and your state.
- Templates are not legal, tax or insurance advice. Have agreements reviewed by your own counsel and follow your own operating rules.
- For use in one business. Not for resale or redistribution.
Designed by A3E Studio (Ontario, Canada) and generated by our own software; every formula is recalculated and checked before listing.
