Considering New Authority

Hi guys. 12 year driver here and had been owner while leased onto a company for 4 years. Coming back on the road after 1 year off and honestly I don’t find any decent paying companies in southern cal nor am I wanting to pay 12% or more to lease to a company for mediocre service. We all know the tight margins in trucking as it is and when giving away 12% of the cream off the top just for dispatch and the right to use their DOT, trucking gets a lot harder.


So I’m sincerely looking into biting the bullet stop procrastinating and just getting my own DOT. I know how to use load boards and have done negotiations in the past and am well aware of the other costs and permits etc.

My question is for those who are current owner ops, how much insurance am I looking to pay more or less with my own dry van or reefer trailer these days? Thank you

 

for 12% they offer factoring, running u der their authority, insurance liability and cargo for around 300 a week, and they keep permits and ifta in order. Also they find the loads and some are ones they know others off boards. I’d be responsible for my own truck of course and trailer and repairs and fuel etc

 

Yeah I know man that’s why I was seriously considering doing reefer because the drive van blows out of here can get really ugly and often times the money is staying between the Midwest and the south and the east not much going up and down to five and if there is anything good those hills pretty much kill your truck and your fuel costs.