Multimillion Logistics bets on maintenance and storage as freight recession changes trucker behavior (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) — A company losing its biggest customer usually takes a toll, but for big-rig service provider Multimillion Logistics it spelled out opportunity. Amid a freight recession, Multimillion Logistics CEO and founder Luis Garcia is expanding, betting on two things truckers and freight forwarding companies need most: space and maintenance.
With a service facility right next to Arrow Truck Sales, Garcia’s tractor trailer and vehicle service operation was perfectly positioned to provide for any maintenance needs of the longtime used-truck retailer.
After starting business in May of this year, Multimillion Logistics was receiving more than 20 vehicles a month over the summer of 2025.
“May, June was great. We’re booming,” Garcia said.
That all changed, however, when Arrow Truck Sales planned to shut down its Florida locations by December, leaving Atlanta as the closest shop to Florida. Before year’s end, Multimillion Logistics, was set to say farewell to one of its best clients.
But the soon-to-be vacated space presented a window for Multimillion Logistics to lay a stake in the blooming logistics hub of Jacksonville.
Standing in the empty gravel lot with a decreasing amount of used trucks for sale, the space for parking and storage was vast.
Garcia approached the landlord to restructure the lease and take over Arrow Truck Sales’ property once the retailer is gone.
“There’s always something, a silver lining and everything you know, and we’re blessed now to be here and now take care of more individual owner operators,” Garcia said.
The CEO plans to use the soon-to-be vacated lot at 5911A Commonwealth Ave for expanded maintenance and parking.
Spaces at the newly-acquired lot will be made available to owner-operators to park trucks and trailers and drop hooks. Additionally, Garcia is looking to attract port customers such as Crowley and Tote for chassis and container storage.
The planned expansion comes as the entrepreneur helps more drivers travel further and further distances.
Decreased rates for hauls within the Southeast region are pushing more drivers in Northeast Florida to take hauls further to the Northeast and Midwest, or even to California.
“That’s what this freight recession has done, it has changed the way a lot of owner-operators operate their business,” Garcia said. “A lot of guys stay out longer on the road, where some guys used to come home every two weeks. Now they come home, maybe three weeks.”
And traveling those distances requires even more maintenance, Garcia said. A winter drive into the ice-cold weather of Chicago or New Jersey demands rigorous check-ups. Trips to California require a carbon certification, which Garcia can cover at his shop.
“I hear the stories all the time when they come here to the shop,” Garcia said. “So I try to tell them, ‘OK, hey, winter time, now your truck is going to act very different once you go up to these winter states,’ we got to make sure you have good batteries. You got to make sure you have fuel additives for your diesel so your filters won’t get clogged up.”
With a mobile-unit, Multimillion Logistics is also equipped for on-the-road maintenance and fix-ups around the Jacksonville area.
The focus for Multimillion Logistics in its suite of services, however, is preventative maintenance, offering auxiliary power units and other after-market parts to prevent technical difficulties for vehicles.
For Garcia, as a former owner-operator, he said stepping into the mechanic-side of the business is about helping those whose shoes he once wore.
“I want to teach these owner operators that are getting in the business now or just barely surviving that, hey, you have options if you designate a preventive maintenance plan for your vehicle, for your fleet, and you install after market utilities in the truck…” Garcia said. “The combination of you saving on maintenance and fuel will create money for you because in trucking, that’s how you make money.”