I cant find the rule from FMCSA.

Here is my dilemma, I have a 1 Ton dually that I lease to the company I work for to pull around their trailer and their equipment. My question is, With my truck being leased to the company and me being a full time employee with this company. Both drivers for my truck have Class A CDL. Can I legally use their DOT numbers? I can not find it in FMCSA, and any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.


Edit: Interstate. Everyone on my crew are CDL licensed. We are all employees of this company. We are hauling 1 piece of equipment for from jobsite to jobsite. They are leasing my personal owned truck to pull their 35' gooseneck with their owned pieced of equipment.

 

Usually if you have a Lease agreement, you run under their MC and DOT #’s. It should be spelled out in the agreement. Technically you aren’t an Employee, you’re a Contractor. Contracted to run under their Authority. Your Drivers are employees of your Company.

 

As in hauling loads the carrier doesn’t know about?

 

You need to add more details to this like what are you hauling, is this strictly intrastate or interstate, what state is this in and does the company have an authority to haul interstate?

These are very important to get an answer to because it governs if you are contracted under fmcsa regs or state laws.

 

You can’t use them. They can though, you leased the truck to them, they’re operating it not you.

 

I have updated my post. So far thanks for the info.

 

You would use the DOT number of company you are leased to and operating under

 

Not exactly. The leasing the truck to the company and his employment status are two separate issues. You can be an employee of a company and lease them assets at the same time. Not even a conflict there, especially if the vehicle is driven by another employee. I gather that this business is NOT engaged in interstate transportation of customer freight, but is transporting their own equipment to various jib sites.

 

Cool

 

I’m not sure what you mean by use there dot numbers if you’re referring to running freight you won’t be able to do that no brokers or any shippers would load you without an insurance certificate from the owner of the dot number.