PARTNER WITH PFM

Partner with the DOT compliance department your clients’ fleets are missing

You already serve companies that run trucks. Some of them carry DOT work nobody on their staff was hired to do. PFM is the team that does it, every day, beside their people.

A construction company owner shakes hands with a PFM compliance manager in a bright office, a hard hat on the table and a dump truck outside the window

Many of your clients are motor carriers and don’t know it

Construction, landscape and utility companies run dump trucks, service trucks and pickups pulling equipment trailers. Many of those vehicles fall under the same DOT safety rules as a trucking company, because the rules follow the vehicle, not the industry.

The work behind those rules never stops. Driver files, hours, inspections, medical cards, licenses and drug and alcohol testing all need someone watching them every working day. When that work slips, it doesn’t stay inside the company. It shows up on a public safety record that anyone can look up with a USDOT number.

That record follows your client into every renewal and every bid, and it reflects on the people who serve them.

WHO LOOKS AT THAT RECORD
Underwritersat every commercial auto renewal.
General contractors and ownerswhen they prequalify the companies they hire.
DOTwhen it decides which companies to review.

Who we partner with

INSURANCE AGENCIES AND BROKERS For agents who write commercial auto for contractors and other fleets
Better accounts to placeDriver files kept current and every alert followed up are the habits behind the kind of record underwriters look for.
Something to bring that isn’t a quoteOffer your client a free DOT Compliance Assessment with a written report. It costs you and your client nothing.
Fewer surprisesExpiring medical cards and licenses and missed inspections get caught early, not at renewal.
TELEMATICS AND ELD COMPANIES Your system flags it. Our team handles it.

Your customers already have the software. What many of them don’t have is a person whose job is to act on every alert. PFM’s team works every hours violation, speeding and hard-braking event and unassigned drive time, every day, and writes down what was done.

We work inside the tools your customer already pays for. Nothing gets replaced, and your system gets used the way it was meant to be.

CDL SCHOOLS, ASSOCIATIONS AND ADVISORS A place to send the companies that ask you for DOT help

The companies hiring your graduates, your members and your clients all run into the same questions about driver files, hours and testing. Send them to PFM, and they get a team that does the work with them.

We also speak at member meetings and events, in plain language, about what DOT expects from companies that run their own trucks.

PFM doesn’t sell insurance. You stay your client’s advisor. We do the DOT work.

Who’s a good fit

THE VEHICLESCompanies that run vehicles or combinations rated at 10,001 pounds or more: dump trucks, service trucks, bucket trucks, roll-offs, box trucks and pickups pulling equipment trailers.
THE COMPANIESConstruction, utilities and energy, landscaping, waste and roll-off, food distribution, agriculture, service fleets and for-hire carriers. Most of our clients run 20 to 150 vehicles. Smaller fleets are welcome too.
WHERECompanies anywhere in the lower 48 states. We don’t serve passenger carriers or hazmat carriers.

The team your client gets

Every PFM client gets a full DOT compliance department, working beside their own people every day.

Compliance ManagerOwns the program and is your client’s main contact.
Hours of Service SpecialistReviews driver logs and works every alert.
Safety SpecialistCoaches drivers and follows up on inspections and accidents.
Compliance AdminKeeps driver files, renewals and records current.

Hiring these four roles in house costs about $465,000 a year with benefits.¹ PFM gives your client the same four roles for a fraction of that.

¹ Median yearly pay from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Compliance Manager $107,230 (transportation, storage, and distribution managers), Hours of Service Specialist $80,730 (compliance officers), Safety Specialist $90,150 (occupational health and safety specialists), and Compliance Admin $47,540 (secretaries and administrative assistants). That is $325,650 in pay. Pay is about 70% of what an employer spends on each worker once benefits are added (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation), which brings the total to about $465,000 a year.

How it works

Refer a client now

Have a client who needs help today? You don’t need to talk with us first. Send us their details and we’ll call them.

1Talk with OntariaA 20-minute call about who you serve and what they run into. We’ll make sure PFM is a fit for your clients before anything else.
2Send a client to a free assessmentYour client books a free DOT Compliance Assessment, a short phone call. They get a written report that shows which vehicles DOT counts and where the gaps are.Book your client’s free assessment now
3PFM works beside their teamIf your client signs on, PFM’s team does the daily DOT work with their people, every day, and keeps the record of what was done.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 · ATLANTA Bring a client to our free DOT Breakfast Briefing One morning for construction safety directors, fleet managers and owners, with coffee, breakfast and plain answers. Partners are welcome too.
See the briefing

Let’s talk

Pick a time for a 20-minute call with Ontaria about who you serve and what your clients run into.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
Ontaria Read, founder of Prime Fleet Management
Ontaria ReadFounder, Prime Fleet Management(855) 838-7051

Ontaria built and ran her own eight-truck fleet, a seven-figure business, and has spent 17 years in compliance and regulatory work. She started PFM to be the DOT department she wished she’d had. When you partner with PFM, you work with her directly.

BOOK A CALL 20 minutes with Ontaria You’ll see our booking page. Choose “Talk with your PFM rep,” pick any open time, and add a note that you’re a partner. Book a call with Ontaria Have a client who needs help now? Refer a client