Governing lease trucks illegal

Put the defining phrase in bold. You cats gotta quit drinkin the koolaid if you lease you're not an owner operator by the definition of the phrase, no matter what the recruiter sells ya.

 

My tongue is bleeding right now.

 

The guy is already on the floor, why you gotta kick him?

 

Lol I know right?? I just wanna climb up on the soapbox and knock some heads together good grief man

Back in the day I ran a truckin outfit out in the oil patch in nd and you pretty much hadda have the outlaw mentality, or at least have a clue, or it just didn't work. Every now and then I'd accidentally hire guys that came across good but then they'd get all legal on me. 'Law says I get a 15 minute break every four hours' or 'this is government lease property it's illegal not to Davis bacon my pay' it was real easy to figure out a way to get rid of them guys.

Moral of the story is truckers got too much time to think. Specially new truckers with a lease.

 

Hahahahaha that right there was awesome

 

Guys will debate that back and forth. In my opinion you are an owner operator. The carrier you may be leasing from is taking on an additional position, that of the finance company.

Your pay, insurance requirements and so on are all the same as an O/O that has outside financing. A lot of times a carrier is on the hook to front repair cost if a leasing O/O can't cover the repairs. They can't simply say, sorry can't help you out. They've got some skin in the game.

Yes it does present a challenge should you choose to leave that carrier. You'd have to secure your own outside financing to take the truck unless you negotiated a reasonable exit strategy before signing and it's in writing.

 

Ok you got me. I'm speechless.