From company driver to owner and beyond — taught by someone who has lived every mile of it. Honesty. Integrity. Experience.
It’s May 12th, 2009. I’m standing in a federal halfway house in Charlotte, North Carolina with a CATS bus pass, a job application, and $62.39 to my name — but I’m free. Behind me are twenty years in a myriad of businesses: OTR trucker in 1987, the automobile business in ’89, sports management in ’92, mortgage consulting in ’96, an independent auto dealer in 2002. I’d made real money and lost it, and I stood there thinking, there has to be a better way.
Read the whole story →Pick the level that fits where you are. Every one connects you straight to Fitzgerald.
You bring the questions. Rates, lanes, brokers, authority, the first truck — whatever’s got you stuck. Straight answers, no fluff.
See DetailsA working session on your plan. Owner-operator math, expedite vs. big truck, staying profitable, and the moves that keep you off the broke-trucker treadmill.
See DetailsEight units, structured like a university course — lectures, readings and assignments, self-directed so it moves at your pace.
Where you are, where this goes, and how the Academy runs.
The fundamentals of the business most drivers never got taught.
How the work actually gets done — the right way, repeatably.
Taking it off the page and onto the road and the books.
Fitzgerald came home in 2009 with a bus pass and $62.39. Trucking is one of the few businesses that will still pay you what you’re worth after a hard chapter — if you learn it right.
Getting the CDL is step one. The people who last learn the business side — rate per mile, cost per mile, and the gap in between — before they buy a truck, not after.
Join the family and tell Fitzgerald where you are with trucking. His team follows up personally.