Leasing DOT authority

Usually you need to know someone with authority to get them to lease you on and do your own thing. Any company will lease you on and run ya but if you are looking to do your own thing you will need to be buddy buddy with them. I did it for a few friends but there is liability issues with letting someone run around the country with your numbers on there truck

 

so what you saying is you have your own loads or your dedicated runs you just need an authority? do you have your own liability insurance right now too?

 

In order to get your authority issued, you have to provide proof of the insurance.

 

the guy is asking about looking for someone elses authority to run under

 

I see that now. He would better off checking the expediter sites.

 

Just lease onto a expedite company. When you are searching for one to lease onto, ask them if they allow you to "trip lease". Many comapnies do allow trip leasing. What this means in a nutshell is; if your company has no frieght for you to backhaul then you find someone who does have a load. You then "trip lease" to that company so you can haul their load. Trip leasing is just temporarily leasing to a companies authority(usually just long enough to do one load).