You added trucks and lanes — but did you add profit, or just trucks? A part-time, senior CFO goes into your operational data, finds which lanes and loads actually make money and where cost is leaking, and proves it on your own numbers before you touch a route.
A fractional (or outsourced) CFO gives you the seat of a seasoned chief financial officer a few days a month — without the cost of a full-time hire. The person in your data is a 35-year CFO who came up through capital-intensive logistics and industrial businesses.
See margin by lane, customer, and truck — not one blended number. Know which lanes carry you and which quietly lose money every week.
Deadhead and empty miles, fuel and maintenance creep, uncosted backhauls, and working capital trapped in receivables — found and put in dollars.
Clean, defensible numbers for a covenant renewal, an equipment-finance package, or a sale — so no one finds something you can’t explain.
Every one of these is the same story: a growing operation that couldn’t see itself until it saw the whole network at once.
A fractional CFO is worth most for a carrier when a few of these are true:
One low-risk first step, then proof, then a relationship — we don’t hand over a report and leave.
A focused call about where the pressure is. If there’s a fit, we scope a short, defined piece of work on your own data under NDA — and agree a fixed fee before you commit. If there’s likely nothing there, we’ll tell you that too. No obligation.
If there’s something worth chasing, that scoped work is built and tested on your own data — so what we recommend is grounded in your numbers, not a pitch.
The part that matters most. We take the fractional CFO seat — board reporting, cash and margin, the risks that matter — until the improvement is real and your team can hold it.
How does a fractional CFO help a trucking company?
A fractional CFO gives a carrier a senior finance hand a few days a month to find which lanes, customers, and trucks actually make money, cut the costs hiding in deadhead, fuel, and maintenance, and produce numbers a bank or equipment lender will trust — without a full-time hire.
How do I find out which lanes are actually profitable?
We go into your operational data — trips, fuel, maintenance, pay, and revenue — and rebuild margin by lane, customer, and truck. It usually shows a handful of lanes carrying the business while others quietly lose money that the consolidated P&L hides.
How much does a fractional CFO cost?
AJM Solutions’ fractional CFO engagements are far less than a full-time CFO, scoped to what you need. Most start with a short call, so you see the value before you commit.
Can you reduce our freight or fuel costs?
Often, yes — but only where the data proves it. We rebuild the numbers on your own trip, fuel, and maintenance data before pointing to any saving. The short call tells you whether there’s something real to chase.
A 20-minute call about your situation. If it’s a fit, we scope a short, defined piece of work on your own data — and if you’re already tight, we’ll tell you that too.
Book a call →If there’s nothing there, we’ll say so — that’s the point.
AJM Solutions is a Calgary-based fractional CFO firm working with owner-led trucking, logistics, oil & gas services, and distribution businesses across Alberta and Saskatchewan. See our fractional CFO services →