Reach new carriers the week they file, before the phone bank does.
Everyone buys the same FMCSA list and calls the same 300 owner-operators. Your agent reads the authority filings, drops the reinstatements and the fleets, and puts a letter with a text-back line in the mailbox the week they file.
Dear Marcus,
Congratulations on filing for your operating authority for Bell Freight LLC last week.
Before your first loads there are three things that trip up most new carriers: the BMC-91X insurance filing that has to be on file before your authority goes active, IRP and IFTA before the first interstate load, and the new-entrant safety audit that comes inside your first year.
I put together a one-page new-entrant checklist for carriers like yours. If it would be useful, call or text me - no obligation.
Ray Whitfield
Ray Whitfield, Whitfield Commercial Insurance
mention code AT-0207
or scan / visit go.blazeagent.com/AT0207
The filings, the shells out, the reasons - public.
Read Sunday night; the pages update every Monday, 7 AM Eastern. One territory, twenty-nine counties - every county has a page, and a county gets its own list the first week five or more of its filings look real.
First. Done for you. Proven.
First.
A carrier that files for authority on Tuesday gets eleven calls that week and no letters. The BMC-91X has to be on file before the authority activates, so most new ventures bind inside seven days - with whoever reached them first.
Done for you.
Your agent reads the FMCSA authority filings for metro Atlanta on Sunday night, drops the reinstatements and the fleets, writes a letter to each true new owner-operator - one useful thing they need before their first load, in your voice - and mails the ones you approve Tuesday morning.
Proven.
Every letter carries a tracking number, a QR code and a reference code, and the text-back line goes straight to you. When an owner-operator calls or texts, you get an email naming the carrier and the letter. Break-even is one to three bound carriers a year.
Every letter written fresh, in your voice.
Mail merge writes one letter and sends it a hundred times. Your agent writes a hundred letters - each from scratch, in your voice, with your offer, about the one thing that business needs this month. You approve every one, and your edits teach it.
Three days. That's the product.
A carrier or two covers the year.
Twenty-five letters a week runs about $4,050 a year. One bound new-authority carrier pays $1,200 to $4,000 in first-year commission - and you are paying $45 to $120 today for a connected call that four other agents also bought.
The full case, with the numbers →What agents ask first.
The filings are public and everyone has them. What nobody else does is drop the reinstatements and the fleets, write a letter to each real new carrier in your voice, mail it the week they file, and put a number on it that rings your desk. They'll get eleven calls this week and no letters.
The filings are read Sunday night, the letters mail Tuesday morning and land within two days - inside the window most new ventures pick their insurance. And the text-back line is on the page: they answer a letter the way they answer a text.
One useful thing from the new-entrant set - the BMC-91X, IRP and IFTA, the UCR, the Clearinghouse query, the safety audit - and a one-page checklist. Never a quote in the letter, never a hard sell.
A factor might - that's a different profession and a different letter. But no other trucking-insurance agent gets a carrier we write to for you, ever, and a carrier hears from at most a few professionals through us in a month.
Five minutes. Approve the batch if it looks right. Miss Monday and nothing is lost - approve any day and they mail the next morning.
Not live yet. One email the week it opens.
Tell us where. You get one email the week trucking-insurance agents open in your county - nothing before. That email carries the week's numbers and one button that starts your free Monday list.
A person answers.
Blaze Agent is run by one person, not a sales floor. Call or text with a question and you'll hear back the same day.