buy a trailer and lease it out ?

Make sure if you do this the customer can take care of the repairs, unless you bake those charges in to the lease agreement. I see what these auto plants do to our trailers, blown out sides, tore up roofs, forks through the nose... I can only imagine the abuse a trailer would be subjected to in the oil field. And yes, I have driven and worked in the field. 99% of the drivers out there will not give two you know what about your trailers and will beat them to hell and back.

 

It is a pain in the ****. I know two people who do just this and they work for their pennies - PENNIES. They have a lot of trailers out at any given time and I would rather lease out trucks than trailers.

 

And if your lucky they will not take another job and abandon your equipment in some far off location.

 

I can't imagine why you'd do this unless you do it on a large scale and there are plenty of trailer lease companies already. Just seems like a losing game. Trailers are never taken care of. May be a better financial plan to lease fast cars to teenagers.