Trucking · Box Truck Package

Starting Witha Box Truck

No commercial licence to earn, a shorter list of federal requirements, and a business a lot more people can actually reach. Federal and state rules, combined into one guide, built around the truck itself. Pick your state.

Federal + state in one guide Written for a box truck, not a tractor-trailer No CDL required under 26,001 lbs
Box Truck Package

Colorado

Federal thresholds and Colorado's own rules, combined into one guide.

  • Do you have a box truck — the weight lines that decide everything
  • Setting up the business: entity, EIN, and authority
  • USDOT number and operating authority
  • Insurance, in full — including where to actually get it
  • The driver file and the hours of service clock
  • Securing a load and keeping the truck legal
  • Where the work actually comes from
  • and more
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How this is different from the other trucking guides

The Federal Setup Guide and its editions are written for any commercial motor vehicle, licence or no licence. The Box Truck Package is narrower on purpose: it assumes you are starting with a single box truck, usually under the weight that requires a commercial driver's licence, and it skips the requirements that do not apply to that truck instead of making you find that out yourself.

Neither a filing service nor legal advice. It exists so you can start this yourself, from the actual federal and state rules, instead of paying someone a percentage of your business for the same information.