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If you are going to lease to a carrier then they will supply all the numbers.

 

I don't think you need an mc# if you are planning to lease to a company.

Otherwise, get a common carrier #, contract carrier # are pointless any more

 

Glad to hear you bought a truck instead of another Lease/Purchase horror story (can't take those any more).
But what the hell are you doing buying a truck if you know absolutely nothing about the industry?!?
God help us all.

 

You bought a truck and are NOW you are looking for some where to lease on. I'll never understand.

 

I think you did this backward... if you are leasing to a company, the truck usually runs under their authority, and they provide the numbers.

Also, I sort of had the impression that leasing to a company also involved driving the truck. Some companies will provide a driver, but it's usually an untrained newb, and insurance has deductibles... and you still have to pay the guy. It's a freight business, and you almost have to be involved. You don't just lease one used truck to a carrier of your choosing - if they want trucks, they order a fleet of them, and they deal with one equipment vendor, or a small group of equipment vendors...

I don't think that you just lease your one used truck to a carrier. I think that you get paid to move freight, however you accomplish that, and most people do it by driving their truck for the carrier...

I'm sure someone will correct me, if I'm wrong, here...

 

Business plan. Buy truck, make money.
To the OP, you will find a lot of information on this site. You will also see a lot of posts like @White Dog and the beginning of this post. We're not being smart to you. It's just that over the years, we have seen so many folks that tried to make a business being an owner/operator fall flat on their face.
Do you have any experience with trucking?

 

It's the underpants gnomes of trucking!

1) Steal underpants
2) ???
3) Big money!!!

(See South Park cartoon)

Yes, yes I am being a smarty-pants, but it doesn't make me wrong.

I think that what happened, here, was that he saw a Dart truck, with a picture of a driver, touting the advantage to "leasing to" Dart, and he thought he could just buy a truck and lease it to a carrier, the way that you lease a house to a tenant. He stated in the original post that he is not a driver.

The term means something different in trucking; it refers to a type of independent employment relationship. With no background in the transportation business, he would have no way of knowing that.