LTL Owner Operator questions.

My brother owns 3 box trucks, i had one for a little while, local ltl os really courier work. "City hotshot" if ya will... pay (at least here) is based on size, and time frame + distance. So a 1 hour hot run from a to b, pays x where in a 8 hour window for the same freight would be much less..

 

Both actually, he has direct customers which he services, and several local courier companies, when a truck is idle, he calls the courier places, and quite simply asks, "got anything?" They tell him what they have, and what it pays. He doesn't have to take it. And weekly he gets settlement checks from them for the week prior to last, ( the extra week is for them to collect from the customer)

 

He has a 20 foot, 2 24's and a 26. All under weight

 

Does he need a carrier # for what he does? Sounds like a good entry point for O/O.

 

There are a few options, you can hire on to a courier place, they will give you use of their mc dot ect.. but they wont want you running private freight with their name. My brother started llc and had a dot assigned to him. He got a set of magnets from the courier company, (if they have a customer that requires a certain company) he has a no poaching clause in his contract that states he will identify himself and his truck as a representative of the courier company when under dispatch from them.

 

That's the way I did it, without a DOT. I see courier companies looking all the time, turnover must be pretty good. Has to be a way to keep thing moving. The indy roustabout probably gets better rates than their captive drivers do.

dsltruck, you might look at Amazon Flex. They experiment with temp drivers to find out how long parcel delivery in a given area takes, then using that info to negotiate with "white van" drivers to do those routes more steadily and at a discounted rate. If your driver looks into it he can try signing up for a route with a passenger car so he can see how it works from the inside, he'd have access to other white van drivers. You might even end up with a fleet.