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AI for

Trucking Owner-Operators

The video with nobody in the seat comes round every few months. Meanwhile the office behind the seat still wants invoices, check calls and a rate you can defend.

Ebook $7.99 · Audiobook $14.99 · instant download · no DRM

eleven hours
of your week.

That’s eleven hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there, built around dock time and ten-minute evenings, because your office moves at 65 miles an hour and your desk work happens in a sleeper.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4Load math and rate negotiation worked out on a napkin~2.5 hours
  • Chapter 5Check-ins, detention notices, broker messages~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Invoices, factoring packets, receipt sorting~2 hours
  • Chapter 7Relationship upkeep that never happens~1 hour
  • Chapter 8Trip notes, maintenance logs, delay explanations~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 9Chasing direct freight you keep putting off~2 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters and 150 ready prompts, a glossary that explains the words nobody explained, and thirty days of small steps at the end.

  1. Line illustration: an empty wooden shipping pallet with nothing loaded on it at all, already lashed down under four heavy ratchet straps pulled bar-tight across its bare slats, no lettering, stencils or numbers anywhere, the ratchet buckles the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: two heavy rubber truck wheel chocks set snugly either side of one small office-chair castor, each chock many times the size of the wheel it is blocking, all surfaces plain with no lettering or numbers, the chocks the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a load ratchet strap cinched so tight around a stack of wooden pallets that the whole stack is crushed to half its height, everything plain with no lettering or numerals anywhere, the strap and its ratchet the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: an oversized wooden abacus strung with heavy chrome truck lug nuts instead of beads, the frame plain with no lettering or numbers on it, the top row of lug nuts the accent colour 04 Loads and Rates — Know Your Number Before You Dial
  5. Line illustration: a coin-operated parking meter bolted to the concrete directly beneath the rear doors of a trailer backed into a loading dock, the meter's dial completely blank with no numbers or markings, the meter head the accent colour 05 Broker and Shipper Communication — The Reputation That Reloads You
  6. Line illustration: a diesel fuel-pump nozzle hanging over an open cardboard shoebox and dispensing a long curling ribbon of receipt paper into it instead of fuel, the paper completely blank with no printing or numbers on it, the nozzle the accent colour 06 Money Paperwork — Paid Right the First Time
  7. Line illustration: a plain rubber truck mud flap mounted in an ornate gilded picture frame and hung like a portrait, the flap completely blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers of any kind, the frame the accent colour 07 Standing and Relationships — Your Name Is the Brand
  8. Line illustration: a truck sleeper-cab pillow with a small wooden drawer built into its side, the drawer pulled open and empty, the drawer the accent colour 08 On the Road — Your Second Brain in the Cab
  9. Line illustration: an oversized brass doorbell push mounted on the wall beside the roll-up door of a factory loading dock, with no lettering, numbers or markings anywhere on the door or the wall, the doorbell push the accent colour 09 Getting Freight — The Direct-Shipper Move
  10. Line illustration: a judge's wooden gavel and its striking block gripped in a truck's windscreen suction-cup phone mount, the gavel head the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a glass display dome resting on a wooden plinth with a single CB radio microphone enshrined beneath it and its coiled cord curled around the base, the microphone, plinth and dome bare of any lettering, numerals, plaque or maker's marks, the microphone the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: a heavy truck steering wheel standing upright with a pair of small bicycle training wheels bolted to its rim, the training wheels the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,198 words The Office Behind the Seat About 10 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for trucking owner-operators The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I’m an owner-operator with my own authority, running a [TRUCK/TRAILER TYPE, e.g., 53-foot dry van] based in [CITY, STATE]. I run mostly [LANES/REGION] and my company is [BUSINESS NAME], [N] truck(s). When I ask you to write anything a broker, shipper, or receiver will read, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level. When rates, miles, or dollar amounts come up, always leave them as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you, and when I ask you to calculate anything, show your arithmetic step by step so I can check it.”

One of 150 in AI for Trucking Owner-Operators.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

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Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 1086 KB · about 30,740 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-457-5
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 25m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-458-2
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, The Office Behind the Seat, free: 2,198 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Loads & Rates (16–40), Broker & Shipper Communication (41–65), Money & Paperwork (66–85), Standing & Relationships (86–105), On the Road (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 30,740 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 25m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-457-5; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-458-2. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.

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