I did not raise venture capital. I did not rent office space. My brother Dylan and I built our trucking operation from the ground up in Soap Lake, Washington — and I built RoadCommand between runs, in the cab of my Peterbilt 579, because we needed it and it did not exist.
Dylan and I have run our own authority together out of Soap Lake, Washington for years. Two brothers, one truck, no dispatcher — just us making decisions on every load, every lane, every negotiation. That is the operation RoadCommand was built to support.
Running your own authority is supposed to mean freedom. Freedom to choose your loads, your lanes, your schedule. But somewhere along the way that freedom got eaten up by dispatcher fees, broker margins, and the constant mental math of trying to figure out if a load was actually worth taking.
I would get a load posting — say $2,100 for 963 miles from Yakima to Boise — and I would have to mentally calculate the fuel cost, estimate the deadhead to get there, factor in where I was in my HOS clock, and then decide whether to call the broker. Half the time I would take a load that looked good on paper and end up with $800 in my pocket after expenses. That is not running a business. That is running in circles.
"I built RoadCommand because no tool on the market was built for the driver. They were all built for brokers, dispatchers, and carriers — not the guy behind the wheel paying for the fuel."
So I started building. Not with a team of engineers or a startup budget. With my phone, in the cab, at truck stops across Eastern Washington and into Texas. Every feature in RoadCommand came from a real problem I hit on a real run. The GPS deadhead calculator — built after I drove 140 empty miles to a pickup that barely covered fuel. The HOS arrival time — built after I booked a load I legally could not complete in one shift. The return load finder — built after I sat at a delivery dock in Salt Lake City with no idea what was available heading back north.
The trucking industry moves everything. Every product on every shelf in every store in America got there on a truck. The people making that happen — the owner-operators running their own authority — are the backbone of this economy. And they are being squeezed from every direction.
Dispatchers take 8 to 10 percent. Brokers take 15 to 25 percent. Fuel eats another chunk. And at the end of the week the driver — the one who actually did the work — is left wondering where the money went.
RoadCommand is my answer to that. A tool that gives owner-operators the same intelligence a big carrier has, at a price that makes sense, built by someone who understands the life because he lives it.
Every decision made building RoadCommand came back to these three principles. They are not marketing language. They are the reason the app exists.
First 15 owner-operators get 30 days free. No credit card. No dispatcher. No middleman. Built by truckers for truckers.
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