Mr. Madison - Thank You For the Opportunity to express the Load Information Joseph G. James Federal Business Development (MC694712) this is my Dept. Of Transportation (DOT) Authority found under www.fmcsa.gov a division of DOT (FMCSA) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Authority. my email: josephj@fedbiz.us
TRUCK LOADS NOT LISTED ON LOAD BOARDS
The Federal Government spends $425 billion per year for goods and services, which amounts to more than one billion dollars, of awarded contracts per day.Any normal amount of attention to federal governments contracting cycle would result in a massive amount of truckloads per day.
Nearly, eighty percent of federal government contracts need truck transportation to implement the contract.When Boeing is awarded a federal government contract, trucks transport the engines built by General Electric to the assembly line.These contracts create a supply chain, transported by trucks through the entire life of the contract, sometimes for more than ten years.Trucks become the logistics support imitated to implement the federal government contracts but the numbers of truckloads are not posted on national load boards, therefore the loads are not offered in the normal or accepted manner, to the trucking industry.
Small Business Regulations
These loads are not a direct requirement of the contract but they are written in-direct federal government small business mandatory contract regulations.Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Harris Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton, Incorporated and Science Applications International Corporation are federal government contractors, to name a few, have signed sections of their awarded contracts, stating that they will provide subcontracting opportunities for small business businesses including trucking companies.This signed obligation becomes a mandatory component part of the basic contract awarded and when not implement, these contractors stand to loose these contracts, under the Material Breach Contract small business regulation.
Legislative small business regulatory set-asides are specific small business goals, within the basic contract; those goals are to be met by the awarded contractor in the facilitation of their logistic supply chain contract requirement.These loads are not posted on national load boards.Without this knowledge the general trucking small business community is unaware of the mandatory subcontracting small business rule, offering truck loads that are available on a daily basis, seven days a week for the entire general year of trucking transportation operations.
Truck Pay Loads Missed
Small Business Regulations specifically identify the various sections of the small business community mandatory goals, which are implemented in support for the growth of the small business trucking companies.All federal government contracts awarded, nothing less than forty percent of the overall contract is set-aside for small business companies.The Federal Government Department of Defense, when listing the top fifteen companies awarded contracts between October 2006 and April 2009, the amount awarded was three ($300) billion dollars of which one hundred and seventeen ($117) billion was set-aside for the small business community.None, of the top fifteen large government contractors received, less than three ($3) billion dollars per year during that period.
This Small Business niche is without individual small business trucking companies strategic business plans in place to market these loads; instead the federal government becomes the enforcer and advocate for the small business trucking community in the offering of these entranced loads.
This protection is little known within the small business trucking community and the general public.The issue of the available loads per day, are never announced in the general media, there accessibility never reaches the load boards.It is the awarded contractors responsibility to meet this mandatory requirement.If the awarded contractor fails to offer these loads to the small business trucking community, it is considered a Material Breach of Contract ending in fines or lost of present contract and initiating a federal compliance review of both pass and present contracts awarded.
