March 6, 2017. Three cancellations before 7am, two trucks down, one driver out, and a brand-new dispatcher trying to keep the board straight on a whiteboard that hadn’t been erased in a week. Marc Stenholm sat in the office at 5pm with a half-billed Friday and a margin that had quietly disappeared into Post-it notes.
He’d been a software guy in a previous life. So he and his cousin Priya — then at Convoy — sketched what a real dispatch tool would look like for a 14-truck yard. Not Salesforce. Not QuickBooks. Something that knew what a 30-yard container was and what “swap before 11” meant.
The first version ran his yard for a year. Two of his hauler-friends asked for it. Then six more. In 2020 they raised a small round, hired Lonnie to run the marketing arm (because his hauler-friends kept asking who their SEO guy was), and FleetPros became a company.
Today: 1,200+ haulers across the U.S. and Canada, $2.4B of hauler revenue invoiced through the platform last year, and a single phone number that still routes to a real person.