can you pay someone to drive for you?

yes, but i do believe that person MUST fill out an application for THAT company and pass the background checks...unless this has changed....

by the way, this HAS happened to me.....(being a driver for an o/o, leased to a company).

 

I doubt their will be any thing left for you. The vairable as an O/O is the O/O. If their isnt enough money at the end of the week you the O/O are the one that dont get the money. The truck payment, fuel, insuance, and maintance come first. If you paying a driver his pay comes first. If money is short their is no place to take the money from. You could maby skip the maintance acount but what happens when the oil needs changing or you need a tire. Most O/Os that lease to a company make less than a company driver after all their expences. I think the only way you could take any money for you self would be to have your own opperating athority and find your own loads. How ever this takes a lot of time that you dont have if your driving another truck around home all day. You will make more than some .90 cent per mile lease. What would happen if your driver got hurt, sick or quit? Could you afford to park that truck till you found another driver? I doubt it. Especially if you were leased to a freight company. They aint going to keep paying for the insurance till you find a driver. Either you would need to get in the truck or they would terminate your lease. You would need to leave your local job to go OTR just to save your lease and truck.
If you realy want your own small fleet I think you need to go about it a different way. I think you need to driver your own truck for a while. Get your own opperating athority, and find your own loads. It will take you some time to learn witch brokers you can make money with and who you can trust. Once your established then ad a truck and driver. As time goes on you can ad more till you dont need to be on the road any more. If you find the right freight you realy dont need to be "OTR". You will prob. need to be gone a few night a week and run a 5 or 6 state region to find enough freight to keep you moving and keep enough money flowing. This is not something that will happen over night. I would expect you would need to drive for several years even after you ad a truck or two. You will need to dedicate your self to this or it wont work. Its not a part time desk job running a trucking company. Even a small one. I realy dont think It could be done while working another job. Especially a 10 to 14 hr a day driving job.
I think it would be a very rewarding place to be but it will take a lot of time and dedication to get to the point where your taking in money for you self and not actually driving the truck. Good luck. Theirs a lot more to it than just buying a truck, putting a driver in it, and taking money from it. Unless you can get a driver to work for a very low wage but how long do you think they will stay if you do that.
I think you need to figure out if you want a trucking company or a local job as a company driver. I dont belive you can do both. Best of luck either way.

 

i know guys that have 4 and 5 trucks and still must drive to make money

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OMD That's a fine idea on paper. DON'T DO IT!!!!! See above posts.

 

You could try a driver leasing company, or a temp. driver company. I'll warn you ahead of time that it will _NOT_ be cheap to do so, however.

 

this is true, as they WILL GET current market pay/plus benefits (if the driver leasing company offers that to thier employed drivers, and many DO...!!!) .....not minimum wage or 10¢ per mile.....