So you can find a lot of loads without your own trailer?

You can lease your tractor on to a trucking company without a trailer and run under their authority and pull their trailers if you and your tractor meets or exceeds theirs and D.O.T. qualifications.

If you are getting your own authority (and plan to get your loads from shippers/brokers), you'll need your own trailer if Im reading your question right? Shippers/Brokers dont usually furnish the trailer.

 

With your athority you can find work without a trailer.Some ,farms ,nurseries seasonal for both some trucking co.JB ,interstate distributors .do use guys with own athority to pull their trailers

 

Ive never done that. Maybe someone else will come along that has? Good Luck though.

 

Had a company call yesterday, asked if we would drop our trailer at their place (if needed) and pull their trailer, make a delivery and a pickup then return the trailer to them. Sounded great till we got to the point of money. They put an awful lot of value on the use of their rolling stock as they only wanted to pay about $.80 per mile all in for what amounted to a 1000 miles over 3 days (over a holiday to boot).

 

BIG SPENDERS!!!!

Did you tell them you would send 10 trucks right over, and more if they could keep them busy.

 

Something about the sentence "leave my trailer in a city somewhere" kind of turns me off. I picture it on a milk carton.

 

Oh they are plenty big enough to keep 10, 100 or probably 1000 trucks busy but I suspect they want you to pay $99.89 to be a "Prime" supplier and make the big money

 

I met other drivers out here that do power only, its an option where you use your bobtail and pull the customer trailer, some say it work out some say it don't.
What do you mean by pay $99.89 to be a prime supplier and whats considered the big money?