Dedicated Contract Carriage

Your lanes. Your drivers. Your fleet.

Dedicated equipment and driver relationships contracted to your schedule — consistent coverage you can build a supply chain around.

When your freight operation is too critical to share with the open market, dedicated contract carriage is the answer. Brown Trucking Company assigns specific equipment and Commercial Vehicle Operators (CVOs) exclusively to your account — drivers who know your freight, your facilities, and your standards. Not a pool. Not a rotation. Yours.

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Shared capacity means your freight competes with everyone else’s.

When your carrier is also serving dozens of other shippers, your freight isn’t the priority — availability is. Dedicated contract carriage removes that variable entirely. Your equipment, your CVOs, your schedule. No spot market. No competing loads. No surprises.

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Capacity allocated to someone else at peak

Shared fleets prioritize volume and margin — your freight waits when the market tightens or a higher-priority shipper calls

A different driver every pickup

Rotating CVOs don’t know your dock procedures, your freight requirements, or your customers — and it shows at the delivery window

Rate volatility on core lanes

Spot-adjacent pricing means your transportation budget moves with the market, not with your plan

No operational alignment

A general carrier doesn’t adapt to your production schedule, shift timing, or customer delivery windows — you adapt to theirs

Accountability gaps when things go wrong

Shared carriers have other customers to get back to — when something fails on your freight, resolution competes for attention

What Dedicated Includes

Everything assigned to your operation. Nothing shared.

Dedicated contract carriage from Brown Trucking Company means reserved equipment, assigned CVOs, and a service model built around your schedule — not the open market.

Assigned Commercial Vehicle Operators

Specific CVOs assigned to your account — employees of Brown Trucking Company, not contractors or a rotating pool. They learn your freight requirements, your facilities, and your customers. Familiarity that compounds over time and shows up in fewer exceptions.

Reserved Equipment

Trailers and power units designated exclusively for your lanes. Dry van, flatbed, and temperature-controlled equipment available. Your freight doesn’t compete with another shipper’s load for a trailer on Monday morning — the equipment is already yours.

Contract Pricing & Schedule Certainty

Locked lane rates, defined service windows, and contracted capacity. No spot market exposure on your highest-volume freight. Your transportation budget is predictable from day one — not a number that changes with the index.

TMS Visibility & Exception Alerts

Real-time shipment tracking, proof of delivery, and exception notifications through our TMS customer portal at brown.aljex.com. Your team sees in-transit status without having to call dispatch — and exceptions are flagged before they become missed deliveries.

USDOT/FMCSA Safety Standards

Highest USDOT and FMCSA safety ratings. SmartWay EPA certified transport partner. First-place GA, TN, and NC Trucking Association Annual Safety Contest winners. Your dedicated CVOs operate under the same standards that earned those awards.

Integrated Warehousing Option

Dedicated transportation coordinated directly with contract warehousing through Brown West Logistics — one organization, one contact, no handoff failures between the dock and the road. The model that eliminates the blame game entirely.

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Dedicated vs. Shared Fleet Transportation

Dedicated contract carriage isn’t right for every shipper — but for operations with consistent lanes and high service requirements, it changes the model entirely.

	Dedicated Contract Carriage	Shared / Spot Fleet
Equipment availability	Reserved exclusively for your lanes	Allocated based on market availability
Driver familiarity	Assigned CVOs who know your operation	Rotating pool, no account continuity
Rate predictability	Contracted rates, no spot exposure	Market-rate dependent, volatile at peak
Schedule alignment	Built around your production & delivery timing	Standard windows, limited flexibility
Accountability	One team, one contract, one DOT number	Shared priorities, harder to escalate
Safety standards	USDOT/FMCSA highest rating across all CVOs	Varies by carrier and driver
Best fit	Consistent high-volume lanes — JIT, automotive, healthcare, F&B	Variable or occasional freight volumes

Why Brown Trucking Company

Why manufacturers choose Brown for dedicated carriage.

CVOs are Brown Trucking Company employees — background-checked, trained to your standards, accountable to a single employer

3,200+ trailers across 29 locations — dry van, flatbed, and temp-controlled available for dedicated assignment

Highest USDOT and FMCSA safety ratings — 20+ industry safety awards across GA, TN, and NC trucking associations

TMS visibility at the shipment level — your team sees real-time status, exceptions, and POD without calling dispatch

60+ years of Southeast freight lane experience — we know the routes, the facilities, and the variables before your freight moves

Overflow extended through Brown Logistics Services — 15,000+ vetted carriers when volume exceeds your dedicated fleet capacity

Connected Through Brown Integrated Logistics

One asset-based
carrier, backed by an integrated
solution.

Brown Trucking Company delivers asset-based transportation directly through its own drivers, fleet, and operating network. Through Brown Integrated Logistics, that service can also connect to brokerage, warehousing, and aviation support when your shipping requirements extend beyond core truck capacity.

You get direct asset-backed lane coverage today, with access to a broader logistics solutions when your network needs more flexibility, contingency support, or multimodal coordination.

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