Agent for a company!

No. Not without your own authority.

To be a company driver and agent of the company is a very limited scope. You are not allowed to hire your company issued truck to pickup freight.

To be a owner operator who IS the company.... with own authority can broker freight.

That is all I know.

 

When it comes to a company (any company) an agent is someone who receives correspondence for that company. That's the basics of an agent for a [any] company.

When it comes to trucking, if you're setting up your authority, you need a process agent. This again, has nothing to do with freight; finding, assigning, etc.

Hope this helps...

 

I gotcha...

Yes, you can become an agent of a broker. From what I understand, this deals alot with sales... You're not just dealing with freight and truck drivers. You actually secure deals directly from shippers and then post those loads for drivers...

Here's a link for ya...

http://www.landstar.com/agent

 

Anyone with common or contract authority can not broker freight anymore. You must obtain broker authority.

 

An agent is basically a broker,your just working with one or more companies under ther athority.If you can get freight and good freight.You wouldn't have a problem getting on with a trucking company.Generally paid on % of loads you get.

 

I wouldn't think so unless you were interested in becoming an agent.Agents can do good if you get good freight and on with a good company.It all comes down to how good of a salesman you are.