--- title: Curtainside Trailer Blog by Roland Curtains | Grow Your Fleet description: Grow Your Fleet | Are you looking to learn more about Curtainside Trailers and other areas of the Trucking Industry? Then Please read a few of these articles. --- [![Roland Curtains - Curtainside Solutions Engineered To Lighten Your Load](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Website_Design_5-11-15/roland-curtains-web-logo.gif?width=230&height=40&name=roland-curtains-web-logo.gif "Roland Curtains - Curtainside Solutions Engineered To Lighten Your Load")](https://www.rolandcurtains.com) 817.607.0080 817.607.0080 # CURTAINSIDE TRAILER BLOG [![](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/hubfs/Blog_Photos/2016/Growing-your-trucking-fleet.jpg) ](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/fleet-managers-is-it-the-right-time-to-grow-your-fleet) ## [Fleet Managers, Is It the Right Time to Grow Your Fleet?](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/fleet-managers-is-it-the-right-time-to-grow-your-fleet) [fa icon="calendar'] Nov 29, 2016 9:00:00 AM / by [Pete Johnson](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/author/pete-johnson) posted in [Fleet Managers](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/fleet-managers), [Grow Your Fleet](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/topic/grow-your-fleet) [[fa icon="comment"] 0 Comments](https://www.rolandcurtains.com/blog/fleet-managers-is-it-the-right-time-to-grow-your-fleet#comments-listing) In today’s freight market and regulatory climate, fleets of 25 trucks or less face increasing challenges to their very survival. Sometimes, the answer is to get larger. Expanding the size of a truck fleet opens doors to new markets and makes competing with the truly big fish—outfits with fleets of 200 or more—more doable while still retaining the agility to offer personalized service that many huge carriers don’t. Bigger isn’t always better, so when do you know it’s the right time to expand the fleet? 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