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Confidential Proposal EOS Trucking
Website Rebuild + SEO Proposal

Deliver That Value Online

EOS Trucking built a real business on safety, on time delivery, and treating people right. The website has not kept pace. This proposal covers what we found in a full review of eostrucking.com and its search visibility, and what we would build in its place: a custom site, a full technical SEO foundation, and an ongoing content program built for a carrier competing against CalArk and Maverick for both drivers and freight.

Prepared for: Harvey Beech, Founder & President, EOS Trucking Prepared by: Notches Date: July 6, 2026

Scope note: Notches owns the website itself, its technical SEO foundation, and content. Google Business Profile, local citations, and review management stay with EOS's in house marketing lead, they are flagged in the audit below for full visibility, not included in this proposal.

01

Where The Site Stands Today

eostrucking.com is a small, WordPress based site (13 indexed pages, built and currently managed by an outside agency) centered almost entirely on driver recruiting. That focus has worked, but the shipper side of the business and the site's technical health have been left behind.

13 total pages, no blog

Every page is a static core page. Nothing has been added as content since the team page was last touched in October 2025. There is no ongoing engine bringing in new visitors.

Recruiting first, shippers second

Every page ends in "Ready to become part of the family?" and an Apply Today button. Custom Dedicated Logistics and Irregular Route Logistics, the two services that bring in freight revenue, get generic copy and a plain contact link, nothing a shipper can act on.

About content split four ways

President's Message, Meet the Team, Our Values, and Testimonials are four thin, separate pages instead of one strong story. The company's best asset, a real multi generation family business, is scattered instead of told.

Customer Tools is a bare form

The one shipper facing tool on the site is a name and reference number lookup. There is no quote request, no account login, nothing close to what CalArk offers its shippers.

02

SEO Audit Findings

A full crawl of eostrucking.com, its sitemap, robots.txt, and metadata, checked against how the site actually shows up in search.

Technical & on page
Critical

Homepage meta description is placeholder text

The homepage's search snippet field is still filled with unedited "Lorem ipsum" filler copy. That is what shows under the EOS Trucking listing in Google right now, in place of a real pitch to drivers and shippers.

Critical

Page titles carry no keywords

The homepage title tag is simply "Home - EOS Trucking." No page on the site targets phrases like "North Little Rock trucking company" or "Arkansas dedicated freight carrier," so there is little for Google to match against real searches.

High

Mixed HTTP and HTTPS canonical tags

Several pages (Our Values, Contact, Customer Tools, Irregular Route Logistics) declare their canonical URL as http instead of https, and robots.txt points Google at an http sitemap address too, sending mixed signals about which version of the site is authoritative.

High

Full size hero images on every page

Background and hero photos are served at their original upload size, one over 2,500 pixels wide, which slows load time and hurts mobile Core Web Vitals scores.

High

Googlebot is throttled by robots.txt

robots.txt sets a 10 second crawl delay. On a 13 page site this only slows down how quickly Google notices and re-indexes new or updated pages, including everything in a rebuild.

High

No structured data beyond the SEO plugin default

There is no LocalBusiness or Organization schema surfaced, and no review or FAQ markup, so the site is not eligible for the richer search listings competitors can win.

Local SEO & reputation (for your marketing lead's visibility, not in Notches' scope)
High

Inconsistent phone formatting on site

The office number appears as both "(501) 503-4000" and "501-503-4000" across different templates. Notches will standardize this on the site itself as part of the rebuild, worth matching on your directory listings too.

High

Reputation sites outrank the brand's own story

A branded search for "EOS Trucking" surfaces Indeed, Glassdoor, TruckersReport, and a Facebook driver forum thread alongside the homepage, several with pointed complaints about lease costs and dispatch communication. The BBB profile is not accredited. The current site does nothing to counter this with fresh, dated, specific proof, and the new site will help on that front, but active review generation and reputation management is a job for your marketing lead.

High

Single social channel

Facebook is the only linked profile. Maverick Transportation, headquartered a few miles away, actively runs Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, all channels where driver recruiting increasingly happens first. Content Notches produces (video, blog) can feed those channels, but running them stays with your marketing lead.

Content gap
High

No blog or resource content

The XML sitemap contains only static pages, no post sitemap at all. EOS cannot rank for the informational searches ("owner operator pay in Arkansas," "food grade trailer trucking jobs," "dedicated versus irregular route freight") that a blog naturally captures.

03

Where EOS Sits Against The Competition

CalArk and Maverick Transportation, both headquartered minutes from EOS, run sites that solve exactly what eostrucking.com is missing.

Calark.com

CalArk International

  • Real, specific meta description, no filler text
  • Live load tracking login for shippers
  • Dedicated "Get a Quote" page and driver pay tables
Maverickusa.com

Maverick Transportation

  • Active blog and media center
  • Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, all linked and active
  • Homepage built around a real drone video, not stock photography
The opportunity

What EOS Can Own

  • A real multi generation family story neither competitor has
  • Human shot driver and fleet video as the visual signature, not stock art
  • A shipper facing site that finally matches the recruiting side's polish
The fastest way to close this gap is not more paid recruiting spend, it is fixing the fundamentals (real metadata, a real quote path, a real content engine) and pairing that with the one thing stock photo agencies cannot fake: real footage of real drivers and real freight.
04

The Rebuild Plan

A custom build, not a template. Every stage below closes a specific gap identified in the audit above.

01

Discovery

Confirm with Harvey exactly which pages, tools, and vendor relationships (including the current host) get retired versus carried forward, and pull site and domain access.

Notches + Harvey
02

Story & Copy

Consolidate the four scattered About pages into one strong narrative, and write real, specific copy for both service lines.

Notches
03

Custom Design & Build

A new site built to match EOS, not a reskinned theme, with a real shipper quote path and a stronger driver funnel.

Notches
04

Technical SEO Foundation

Real titles and descriptions on every page, HTTPS canonicals, LocalBusiness schema, compressed images, sitemap and robots.txt fixed, consistent contact info sitewide.

Notches
05

Content Engine

A blog targeting the recruiting and shipper searches EOS currently loses to Maverick, with optional video shoot days to build the footage library.

Notches
06

Launch & Handoff

Migrate off the current host, go live, verify tracking, and walk Harvey's team through everything they can now self manage. Handoff notes for the marketing lead cover NAP details and content assets she can reuse for Google and social.

Notches + Harvey
05

The Ongoing Partnership

The rebuild fixes what is broken today. The recurring program is what keeps EOS ahead of CalArk and Maverick going forward.

Included

Hosting & Security

Foundation

Managed hosting, uptime monitoring, backups, and software updates, so nothing depends on an outside agency again.

Included

Technical SEO

Growth

Ongoing on page fixes, schema, and site health monitoring as Google's technical requirements shift.

Included

Content

Story

New blog posts on a monthly cadence, ready for the marketing lead to push out on Google and social. Video shoot days available as an add-on.

Included

Reporting & Strategy

Visibility

A monthly readout on site traffic and recruiting or quote form activity, with next steps, not just a data dump.

06

Investment

One custom project, one clear structure: a one time setup fee for the rebuild, and a recurring monthly fee for everything that keeps it working.

One time
$7,500
  • Discovery, information architecture, and copywriting
  • Full custom design and build (10 to 12 pages)
  • On page technical SEO foundation and schema markup
  • Migration off the current host and vendor
Monthly, after launch
$500 / month
  • Hosting, security, backups, and updates
  • Ongoing technical SEO and site health monitoring
  • Monthly blog content targeting driver and shipper searches
  • Monthly performance report and strategy call
Optional add-on
$1,250 / shoot day
  • On site video with real drivers, fleet, and facility
  • Post production included: one hero video (up to 2 minutes) plus 3 short cutdowns for recruiting and social
  • Additional edited clips from the same footage, $150 each
  • Quarterly cadence recommended, footage feeds the channels your marketing lead runs
12 month initial term on the recurring program, month to month after. Scope is the website, its technical SEO, and content only, Google Business Profile, local citations, and reviews stay with EOS's marketing lead. If discovery changes the scope, pricing is adjusted in writing before any build work starts.
07

Next Steps

A straightforward path from signed proposal to a live site.

Week 1

Discovery

Access, content audit, and scope sign off with Harvey.

Weeks 2 to 3

Design & Copy

Site architecture, copy, and visual design review.

Weeks 4 to 6

Build & SEO

Full build, schema, and technical SEO foundation.

Week 7

Launch

Migration, go live, and team walkthrough.

Ongoing

Grow

Monthly technical SEO and content program begins.

To get started, reply to hello@notches.ai or give Jordan a call, and we lock in your Week 1 discovery session.