@Melissa Campbell Congratulations, Melissa. Wishing you many more wins like this!

@Schrodingers Cat I totally agree with you! Nothing beats being out in nature, and skipping the crowded cafes is always a plus, haha. It’s great that you love camping and exploring. Wishing us both huge success here, so it's possible to afford plenty of time for outdoor adventures!

@L. G. Totally agree, Hearing directly from the carrier side give as a glance of the carriers' perspectives.

@L. G. Thank you for educating us about it! I have been keeping my eyes on that bill for a while now. My setup is actually an LLC incorporated in the US, and I have elected it to be taxed as a C-Corp, as I have other shareholders in the company. I have an Indonesian company as well, where I will hire and train dispatchers to deal with operations. But this still means your primary place of business is outside the US, making you ineligible to provide dispatch service. (Please note that my comment is not legal or financial advice) The only way that I found will make you eligible to keep dispatching is to open an actual US office, hire an executive who have 25% or more of the decision-making power regarding operations. The bill is not a law yet, therefore, it is not active yet. It is now headed to the full floor of the House of Representatives for a vote. It will need to pass all the legislative steps, all the way to the presidential signature. After the signature, you have a window of 1 year (The Grace Period) to stay operational. So we might be talking about 1.5 - 2 years until it is illegal for you to dispatch as a non-US dispatcher. Can you make it in 2 years and be able to open a US office and hire an operations manager? You have a very high chance if you seriously start now and invest time, effort, and a couple of hundred dollars to land your first carrier and optimistically reach 8-12 careers, it should be light work for you to do that. My current setup. I have 4 dispatcher/employees ready to be trained outside the US (aiming to make them 10 once the business is running and healthy). Once they are operational, our goal will be opening the US office, hiring 2-3 dispatchers, hiring a manager who has the final signature for any decision to stay compliant, hiring a marketing specialist, and finding a suitable office that doesn't drain the income. Please keep in mind that you can't hire US based contractors; they have to be hired as W-2 employees to be compliant.

@Anna Allen Hey, thank you so much! I really appreciate it and wish you the absolute best of luck with your dispatching journey. Having experience in content creation will give you a significant advantage, as most of us, myself included, struggle with it. For the website, if you don't want the headache of creating your own website and other tools by yourself, then I would definitely recommend TruckAI. The reason I didn't go with it is that I just enjoy creating my own website/AI tools by myself and customizing them to suit my specific needs. So if you hate developing your own web apps, then Truck AI is a lifesaver! Now that I've seen your initial post again, I realized that your main question just went over my head lol. How do I know if I'm ready to start supporting a carrier? Is your website and tech stack part of it? Yes, but it is not the only thing that tells if you're ready. Just don't over-stress it; you either build it by yourself if you're comfortable with it, or take the one-stop shop solution of TruckAI, which is even better. From what I've seen in this course, other courses, and truckers' forums, it seems that there are specific aspects that concern truckers the most, and I think if you know how to deal with these aspects, you might be ready (not a fact, just my opinion). 1. Sending them to a cold market with no backhaul load, leaving them stranded in a state where demand is less than supply, puts you in a weak negotiation position, and the rates will be too low, which will ruin their average RPM. 2. Overbooking loads and ignoring the HOS limits. 3. Not getting enough loading instructions from the shippers. 4. Not getting any info about the loading window and detention time. 5. Ignoring the operators' preferences on where they want to go. 6. Miscalculation costs for a trip that ends up not being profitable (miscalculating tolls, fuel, etc..). 7. Not updating the shippers about their loads. That's the concern that I've seen a lot, and everywhere, if you can just deal with it, I think you will be a good help for any carrier.

@Robin Rhinehart Hi Robin. Yes, I totally agree with you, it's a one-stop shop for your entire tech stack, way more efficient than doing everything by yourself. I do recommend it as well.

@Shavawn Blakeney Hey, thank you for the tips. I'm glad that I came across your posts. Hope you achieve your goals with dispatching soon!