In years past, we’ve written a lot about your trucking company business plan. How to write it, how to use it, how it is the core of building a successful trucking company – whether it’s a fleet or an owner-operator company. But it’s 2025, and there’s a new tool in town: AI. It’s changed everything in how to write a trucking company business plan.
AI: Artificial Intelligence and Your Expertise
A traditional business plan has several parts.
Your business plan will have
- an executive summary
- a company overview
- a marketing plan
- a set of goals or milestones
- a list of the current staff
- a financial plan.
As you can see, we’ve covered all of these in previous posts. And we know that while the information we give is good, it can be intimidating to write a business plan. It can feel overwhelming when a document is so important to your business.
In the past, we might recommend using a template or someone else’s business plan. But now, we have AI.
AI is the next generation tool to help you get started.
It doesn’t matter which AI you choose. Gemini (Google), Chat GPT (OpenAI), Grok (X) or any other AI, you can enter the request.
“Write a business plan for an owner-operator trucking business with a _(fill in the blank)_ trailer and an X-year old cab.”
Start with the basics.
The key to AI is repetition and longer prompts. All AI platforms refine their answers based on how we pose the questions. If you don’t think an answer is correct, ask it to adjust the answer.
AI Lies
While we would like to think that an AI is going to produce an accurate answer – it might not.
That’s why you will need to bring your own expertise to the question and review everything that you get from any AI platform. We’re speaking from experience here. Chat GPT’s error rate when we pose factual questions is about 50%.
So why are we suggesting you use a tool that’s wrong half the time?
Because you’ll know when it’s wrong.
If an AI says that in 4 years, you’re going to want to have $100,000 in a savings account to buy a brand-new rig, and you know
- $100K isn’t enough to buy a new rig today
- Saving $100K in 4 years isn’t possible
- Your current rig is in good shape and you are confident you can stay on the road more than 4 more years
Then you know that the business plan proposed by AI isn’t accurate.
But it’s a start.
Sometimes, that’s all we need.
A start to writing your trucking company business plan.
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