# AI for Trucking Owner-Operators — 150 copy-paste prompts | AI on the Job https://www.ai-on-the-job.com/books/024-ai-on-the-job-trucking-owner-operators-edition 024 of 025 · Trades & Main Street Trucking Owner-Operators The video with nobody in the seat comes round every few months. Meanwhile the office behind the seat still wants invoices, check calls and a rate you can defend. eleven hoursof your week. That’s eleven hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there, built around dock time and ten-minute evenings, because your office moves at 65 miles an hour and your desk work happens in a sleeper. Where the hours come from Chapter 4Load math and rate negotiation worked out on a napkin~2.5 hours Chapter 5Check-ins, detention notices, broker messages~2 hours Chapter 6Invoices, factoring packets, receipt sorting~2 hours Chapter 7Relationship upkeep that never happens~1 hour Chapter 8Trip notes, maintenance logs, delay explanations~1.5 hours Chapter 9Chasing direct freight you keep putting off~2 hours Twelve chapters. Twelve chapters and 150 ready prompts, a glossary that explains the words nobody explained, and thirty days of small steps at the end. 01 Your Head Start 02 The 30-Minute Setup 03 How to Talk to It 04 Loads and Rates — Know Your Number Before You Dial 05 Broker and Shipper Communication — The Reputation That Reloads You 06 Money Paperwork — Paid Right the First Time 07 Standing and Relationships — Your Name Is the Brand 08 On the Road — Your Second Brain in the Cab 09 Getting Freight — The Direct-Shipper Move 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break 11 Tools of the Trade 12 Your First 30 Days Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition. Read the opening before you decide. Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade. Prompt #1. Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one. COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I’m an owner-operator with my own authority, running a [TRUCK/TRAILER TYPE, e.g., 53-foot dry van] based in [CITY, STATE]. I run mostly [LANES/REGION] and my company is [BUSINESS NAME], [N] truck(s). When I ask you to write anything a broker, shipper, or receiver will read, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level. When rates, miles, or dollar amounts come up, always leave them as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you, and when I ask you to calculate anything, show your arithmetic step by step so I can check it.” One of 150 in AI for Trucking Owner-Operators. Start reading here. Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. Read the opening → Try the free prompts → The questions people actually ask. Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book? Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys. Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job? No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, The Office Behind the Seat, free: 2,198 words, no sign-up. What is actually in the 150 prompts? Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Loads & Rates (16–40), Broker & Shipper Communication (41–65), Money & Paperwork (66–85), Standing & Relationships (86–105), On the Road (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full. I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced? It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses. How long is it? It is about 30,740 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 25m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them. Can I order the book here? Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where. AI on the Job: Trucking Owner-Operators Edition · page one Somebody you work with needs one of these.