As I continue to research to meet my 5 year goalof becoming an O/O, I have recently come across Factoring companies. A few questions:
1. Do any of you use a factoring company and if so are your experiences positive?
2. Would you advise for, or against a factoring company and why?
3.) Can anyone address the pros and cons of factoring and what to look for if choosing this option?
Factoring - a few questions from startup trucking company
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by stevenneill, May 18, 2014.
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Personally I say no to factoring. Most of the larger brokers have two day pay now. If you take a load with a company with bad credit and you factor that load, when they don't pay the factoring company they charge you back for the money they gave you. If you are just talking about leading to a company as an owner operator factoring shouldn't be part of your business plan.
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Brokers have quick pay. Use it only as necessary. You should NEVER have to use a factoring company. The goal is to have enough cash in the bank to continue operating to avoid the cashflow problem of NEEDING to be paid immediately ... the faster you can do this the better off you are. Plan for at least $30k cash in the bank if you are going to get your own authority and do it completely on your own. That is after you have your truck, trailer, insurance, authority, all is ready to go, $30k, minimum. For ONE truck. Good luck.
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Dont use it!!!
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K. The consensus seems to be pretty consistent so I'll ignore that option. I think I've settled on running Pneumatic Tankers as an owner op. I have two job options for Pneumatic Tanker after December. I think I'll be taking one of them
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