PO loads

Grab a load out trailer run with it for a few weeks, or months, then deliver it. Repeat.

 

I've done a few power only loads moving empty/loaded trailers from point a to b when they paid good. I would never go through the hassle of a load out. You better find a return load from the area first or you may find yourself bobtailing hundreds of miles. I don't think you could keep busy doing it unless you found a dedicated gig for a trailer manufacturer.

 

Look at JB Hunt, Schneider, and other carriers. They have a power plus program that you can use to get back to your next load, pulling their loads on their trailers to a railhead or out of a railhead to customer. With JB they have a separate department for this. sometimes you can use their trailers to haul your loads for a rental fee if it works in getting their trailer back to where they want it.

 

JB Hunt, Schneider and PTL have PO programs for other Carriers to subcontract that don't pay very much and you would be better off leased on somewhere than run for those cheap freight haulers.

 

What did you ask them specifically? They don't deliver trailers. They haul freight. I'd be amazed if any of them quit leasing o/o. That's about all JB seems to do anymore.

 

I just got a call from JB Hunt wanting me to pull their trailers. The guy talked up the rate like it was the best in the business a big whopping $1.60 per mile for all miles. I just let him talk as I was not busy that day and figured if he was talking to me he wasn't bothering some other poor soul trying to make it out here. When he got done I told him that he might think that is a good rate but I average around $2 per mile for all miles just running loads from a load board and why in the heck would I want to take a pay cut and hung up. These company's you lease to that are paying you around $1.40 per mile are making a killing off of you.

 

What company is PTL ?