Spartan Carrier Group Scales From Zero to $60M on Alvys

Carlos Llanes Jr. built Spartan Carrier Group from nothing. He founded the company right after the pandemic. He scaled it from zero to more than 200 employees. He grew revenue from zero to over $60 million. Today Spartan runs about 600 assets across North America.

Just-in-time automotive freight leaves no room for error. Parts hit the assembly line on a schedule. Spartan's operation is complex by design. The software could not keep up.

Spartan ran through two or three TMS platforms before Alvys. Each one broke on the same problem.

"Some of the pain points we had with the legacy systems... they were unable to match the interchangeability between being people-centric, trailer-centric, tractor-centric."

Add cross-border. Enhanced customs brokerage and international milestones made the gaps worse. Then Spartan found Alvys.

"When we found Alvys, it was a game changer. They took the time to walk through every single pain point that we had. They knew exactly what needed to be done in order to get us out of that situation."

The fix held up under growth. Carlos wanted more than a patch.

"They were able to develop a solution that was not only scalable, it was agile and it was cost effective."

Then the time savings stacked up. Driver payroll used to take four days. Now it runs in about 36 hours. The engineering process ran on bulk upload templates. That dropped from three days to roughly 24 hours.

Load generation changed the most. Spartan now dumps a file straight into the system. Alvys parses every route. It builds the bid templates and profiles automatically.

"We used to take seven or eight people into just that one function, and it used to take forever. Now we can knock it out in a matter of like minutes."

One platform holds the whole stack together. Over 120 integrations keep every outside system in reach. Alvys tracks each late route. It flags what is missing a resource. Spartan's operations team classifies each one in real time.

Carlos wants a partner that moves as fast as he does.

"The systems are changing at such a rapid velocity that if you fall asleep for just a couple of days, you're lost. So having partners that are forward thinking is absolutely a competitive advantage."

Spartan is not slowing down. Neither is Alvys.