Compliance administration should be a service, not a second job.

A one-truck company answers to most of the same federal recordkeeping rules as a three-hundred-truck company. The big carrier has a safety department. The owner-operator has evenings.

That's the gap TenFour was built for. Small trucking companies are forced to operate like large administrative organizations with none of the staff — and the industry that grew up “helping” them is known for hidden pricing, annual-contract traps, and mailers dressed up to look like government notices. The category leader's own customers rate it under three stars. We think that's an invitation.

TenFour is the opposite bet: publish every price, skip the scare tactics, answer by text the same day, and use modern automation to do the clerical work so a real person can focus on the judgment calls. Compliance paperwork is mandatory, tedious, and dangerous to get wrong — the exact profile of work a business should be able to hand to a service, the way everyone already hands off payroll.