Ok so I bought a truck

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  1. Cajuncowboy654

    Cajuncowboy654 Light Load Member

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    Ok bought a truck will be leasing on to an oilfield company here

    Question is, I need a trailer but I'm not going to get plates and insurance on the truck until I lease on.

    How would I go about traveling to get the trailer of my choice? Is there a temporary registration I can get? What if said trailer is out of state? What about running ELD, it is going to be issued by my lease company.

    Do I wait until I get my truck leased to go get a trailer?

    I'm in Louisiana and a perspective trailer is in the Florida pan handle

    Thanks
     
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  3. starmac

    starmac Road Train Member

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    I would be more worried about insurance than plates.
     
  4. pavrom

    pavrom Road Train Member

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    These questions should be asked before the deal was sealed
     
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  5. Western flyer

    Western flyer Road Train Member

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    Did you even make sure you got the right
    Truck,that your going to destroy riding back
    And forth on leased ( dirt) roads.

    Are you gonna have any money left to fix the truck
    After you smash it to pieces.
     
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  6. Cajuncowboy654

    Cajuncowboy654 Light Load Member

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    Not many dirt roads in what I will be doing. Hauling in south Louisiana from docks to shops.

    Not oilfield as in out in the middle of a cow pasture Guess I should have been more specific. Mostly highway driving
     
  7. Tombstone69

    Tombstone69 Road Train Member

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    Plates are cheap, insurance is the nut, should be covered in you're lease, if it were me, İ'd get it in stone before I purchased a trailer.
     
  8. Cajuncowboy654

    Cajuncowboy654 Light Load Member

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    Thank you for an actual answer

    I was thinking the same wait until the lease is done then I will have plates and insurance, just wanted some other opinions from guys n gals that have been there before
     
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  9. Western flyer

    Western flyer Road Train Member

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    What kind of oilfield work does
    Docks to shops.
    You sure you know what your getting
    Yourself into?
     
  10. starmac

    starmac Road Train Member

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    Most of our oilfield pipe comes in on ships. and goes to yards.
     
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