o/o lease agreement registration

Do you already have your own numbers?
Are they active?
Nothing is going to “age” unless your authority is active.
Waiting for numbers to age is pure silliness.

 

Don’t think your friend really understands.The statement about your number aging isn’t true advice when your dot number is activated that date is what brokers,insurance,go off.So say you lease to him and buy your own plate you are assigned a dot number at that time but it’s what they call inactive so you could run that for 10 years.Then 10 years later you activate by buying your insurance to start your own authority the only date any broker or insurance is looking at is the date your authority went active not when your inactive dot number was given.

 

I would personally not start an authority unless you have at least one customer. Ie. not spot market. I also question the wisdom of leasing on to a company that has no direct customers. @Long FLD I believe this o/o mentioned the same. Why start out with a plan that will probably lead to failure. You can run only spot market freight but it will be very challenging. You will have to cut costs, find some old school agents that pay more for reliability and service quality, and be a killer negotiator. You have come to a decent form to ask questions. I like that you care enough to ask questions.