Looking to lease my truck on somewere to stay busy...with no eobr preferably...Advice?

I was ready to send you my way till you said Portland freight is pretty dry in that area I need some owner operators and will help anyone to the path to having there own authority.

 

Go to landstar and mercer and haul lots of double brokers freight,,spend $300 get your own authority,,you can haul rail boxes or get your own freight and haul for some brokers until you find shippers to haul for direct,
Over the years I have had several shippers that I met hauling brokers freight and ended up hauling for them direct cutting out the broker,,most brokers will load any truck that calls,,many shippers get tired of crummy trucks that brokers send them and are always looking for good quality haulers.. that is except the mega shippers whose only concerns are the cheapest freight rate and you don't want their cheap freight any way.

 

I'm at Roadrunner on paper logs however I *think* new o/o's signing on are at least strongly encouraged or forced to use the elog smart phone app. Get conflicting stories from various new owners over here that I talk to. One was a green guy from a mega carrier, semi clueless, they put him on elogs right away so that might have been a factor.

Anyway RR has an agent terminal right in Portland OR and up the road in Sumner WA is a full on RR terminal. Then Livermore CA and on down the way to LA, other agent terminals in the Bay Area and Central Valley. Various terminals and agent terminals all across the country to stretch the legs and get some variety and at the same time consistency compared to irregular route willy nilly dispatcher whim destinations.
They will put new drivers on the trailer 'pool' which just means a $185 deduction per week for access to their trailer network, typically the idea is to roll into a terminal with a loaded trailer and drop hook into a preloaded trailer and keep rolling. Terminal has no freight? Call a RR agent broker to book a load out to a vicinity of another terminal.

 

Mercer and Landstar are both EOBR for new hires now. He said he preferred paper.

Why do you insist on admitting to and promoting back solicitation as a viable business practice. It puts you on the same level as a "slimy" broker and destroys any remaining credibility.

 

Let us know how Mercer pans out. Maybe try Farm2Fleet, or CRST Malone for flatbed....I am not 100% sure if they are still paper though. Jones, Admiral Merchants, and Sammons are good carriers too, although Sammons is pushing EOBRs too now.