On the 101 and 152 between Salinas and the Bay, freight does not wait for an IT ticket. A dispatch system that goes down costs revenue by the hour. A driver who cannot sign into the ELD is parked. A customs broker whose ACE filing fails at 4pm is shipping nothing across the border tonight. Ghosxt runs the IT stack that keeps small-to-mid trucking, logistics, and customs operators on the road, on time, and audit-ready: federal-grade engineering, transparent pricing, no outsourced helpdesk. See our Salinas IT support hub for the broader Monterey County picture.
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Trucking IT is not generic IT. The endpoints move, the network changes by the mile, the regulators show up unannounced, and a one-hour outage in dispatch is a different kind of bad than a one-hour outage in a law office. Below is what we actually do, written for fleet operators, not for marketing departments.
24/7 remote monitoring, managed detection and response, helpdesk, patching, and a direct line to the owner, with critical incidents covered by our 4-hour notification commitment. No outsourced ticket queues, no scripts.
Learn moreManaged detection and response, MFA, mobile device management, forced disk encryption, cloud backup. Built for shared driver tablets, dispatcher laptops, and a back office that has to survive a stolen device or a ransomware attempt.
Learn moreTMS, route optimization, EDI integrations, and the network plumbing that keeps them all reachable from the yard, the road, and the cloud. Redundancy on the connections that matter.
Learn moreDriver-app sign-in, single sign-on, retention of DVIRs and HOS records, and clean integrations with Samsara, Geotab, Motive, Omnitracs, and the smaller ELD vendors. We do not resell ELDs. We make yours work.
Learn moreCBP-aligned cybersecurity controls and documentation for importers, exporters, carriers, and customs brokers. Validation-ready, not slideware.
Learn moreCustoms broker portals, ACE and AMS filings, secure document handoffs with Canadian and Mexican counterparts. Encrypted in transit, retained where the regulator expects to find it.
Learn moreTrucking is one of the most regulated industries we work in. A small carrier can be inside three or four overlapping compliance programs without realizing it. We are not auditors, but we run the IT side of every one of these every day.
If you ship across the U.S. border or contract with a C-TPAT-validated importer, the cybersecurity section of the minimum security criteria applies to you. That means documented access controls, password policy, MFA, data backup, monitored networks, and an incident response plan that has actually been written down. Our C-TPAT compliance page walks the whole thing.
HOS records retained for six months. DVIRs for three. Driver qualification files for the length of employment plus three years. The IT side is making sure those records survive a server failure, a ransomware attempt, or a careless deletion, and that they can be produced quickly during an audit or a roadside investigation.
Renewal questionnaires for fleet operators are getting sharper. Carriers ask about mean time to patch on critical CVEs, MFA coverage, managed detection and response deployment, and backup resilience. We answer those questions for our clients with a measured number, not a guess. That is the difference between a renewal at the same rate and a renewal at a 40% premium hike.
Owner-operator and 1099 driver settlements pull W-9 data, bank routing information, IFTA filings, and IRP records. That is regulated PII and regulated payment data sitting in the AP folder. We treat it as such, with role-based access, encryption, and detection on the inbox where the wires get authorized.
If your operation moves freight into Mexico or Canada, some of your data is going to live on servers and inboxes outside the U.S. We map where it lives, who can reach it, and what the contract requires, so a cross-border audit does not turn into a discovery exercise.
A federal-grade engineering background brings the documentation and audit discipline a trucking compliance program actually needs. The same controls that pass a federal contracting audit pass a CBP validation, an FMCSA review, and a cyber-insurance renewal, with the paper trail intact.
Four anonymized examples from real client work on the Central Coast. Names, locations, and specifics are removed; the patterns are exactly what we run into.
A regional carrier called because their dispatcher could not reach drivers across the West. The "redundant" internet connection had not been tested in six months and the cellular failover SIM had been deactivated for non-payment after a billing email landed in a former employee's mailbox. We rebuilt the failover that night, set up monthly automated failover tests, and rerouted billing notifications to a shared inbox that does not disappear when a person leaves.
A customs broker had an attacker-installed inbox rule silently forwarding invoices to an external address. The attacker waited three weeks, then sent a lookalike email asking for a new wire-routing instruction. Two payments cleared before anyone noticed. We rebuilt the affected mailboxes from scratch, enforced MFA on every account, deployed a real-time detection for new forwarding rules, and rewrote the AP wire process so a similar attempt cannot succeed without a phone-call confirmation to a known number.
A produce hauler running a five-year-old single-server TMS lost the box mid-week during harvest. Restoring took 12 hours because the most recent backup had failed silently for two months. We migrated them to a redundant configuration, set up tested cutover procedures, and instrumented backup health so a silent failure now pages someone within the hour.
A driver left a tablet at a truck stop. It had the dispatch app, customer load board, and an open VPN profile. We remotely wiped the device, rotated credentials, and rolled out mobile device management with forced encryption to the rest of the fleet. The replacement device was online inside an hour. The lost device became a brick.
"We've had the pleasure of partnering with Ghosxt for the past three years. Ulises has provided consistent, personalized IT support, enhanced our cybersecurity, and helped us meet high-level compliance standards. He's a true partner who takes time to explain, support, and find the right solutions."
Transportation client, three-year Ghosxt partner
If you have run a fleet for any length of time, none of these are new. If you are the office manager or the owner's spouse who suddenly inherited the IT side, this is the short version.
Our home base is Salinas. We work with trucking and logistics clients across the Central Coast and the South Bay. On-site response on the corridor is fast because we live on it.
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