Help me understand

Currently have three out of four of those covered

 

Why op?
Cause I'm old and lazy and leased to a small company that has been around since 1932 .
Good rates with same customers and few worries when things get slow ..my settlement check won't bounce and dot leaves us alone .
That's why .

 

OP has apparently left the building to go seek understanding.

 

This entire thread is.............

 

I’m trying to figure out how I would be able to do the job if I had to pay for those big arse trailers. Specialty trailers can cost a half mil apiece. If I need it, I go get it, make sure she’s working, go load, deliver that load, and drop that big arse trailer. There’s beam trailers, stretch, multiaxle, flats, steps,...everything I need to pull just about anything that needs to be pulled.

Now, if I pulled one trailer and one type of trailer, that would be different. But I don’t. You know, calling someone stupid because they don’t do what you do means that you’re probably a doorslammer.

 

Well, 1st off, I could give a rats butt about Jimmy Hoffa. 2d. Talk about stuck on stupid, you have a lot....never mind SMDH.
I have been leased to the same small (40 trucks) company for 10 years, In fact I have 3 trucks leased to them. You keep talking about brokers will talk to anyone, your right and so will most lumber yards if that’s what you want to haul. Brokers are some of the last people I want to talk to. We prefer having that dedicated freight and direct customers. We run about 25% brokered freight and the rest we run direct. Your worried about giving 10-25% up to a company, how does it feel giving that up to a broker. What else is he doing for you?
Many, I didn’t say all, o/o’s with their own authority and a single truck, running for brokers will never see rates on a regular basis that We get after the company gets their cut. Could be the reason so many of us have been there for so long. And if you were to ever question the company on what a load pays they will gladly show you.
So you keep doing your thing and I’ll keep doing mine.

 

He needs to

 

The mega companies offer lease purchase. And they offer a few other perks.
The idea is to control the freight market.
The last thing a mega wants is to have competition