Team O/O's With Own Authority

Did you try Mercer, Bennett or Greentree? All of those companies pay percentage, haul the good stuff, and those are just off the top of my head. LS is very hard to get into the first time. If I were you, and I'm not, but if I were, I would buy a sliding tarp flatbed. No tarping (unless you count pulling a little handle the length of the trailer, a little chaining and strapping, but very few teams to compete against, and I see this freight every day paying premium $$$.

 

You seem very defensive? I'm not saying the man is the second coming of Jesus. He's just very level headed and very knowledgeable of the business and always willing to lend a hand. You'll find many of us like that here me especially when someone has questions about the company I'm happy to be associated with.

Please don't feel like we're out to insult you. It's difficult to obtain inflection in a typed message compared to if we were talking in person.

 

What 40cal is trying to get across to you Optimus is sometimes it is not worth it to have your own authority. You can do just as well and even better with less work leased on at the right company. If you plan on working load boards for the rest of your life with your own authority I'd say you're wasting your time and would be much better off leased on with a company. So much time is involved doing other things besides driving the truck when owning one. What kind of contacts do you have to secure good paying contract freight and if plan B comes into play on that question where are you going to find the time to knock on doors and get it yourself? It's ok to think big but you have to be realistic and know what your limitations are presently.

 

I know what I am talking about brother,,,just not "word poet" is all....
Ok, what I am saying is this; a Lease is when a person is making payments on a truck and is automatically Contracted with the company allowing the Lease. An Independant Contractor is a person which does not owe the company they are contracted with, any payments for said truck, it is paid for. People are using the word Lease instead of Contract and that is where things get confused. If I hear the work Lease, I assume the driver is paying payments on a leased truck..

Now, that all said. I will NEVER buy a truck on a Lease program, ever! I WILL buy my truck outright, with cash. This way, I can do with the truck what I choose. Yes, running under someone elses authority has its own rules,,, Even under ones own authority, there are rules... I have no intention of running under my own authority anytime soon.

I hope that I have made myself clear, this time.. If not, feel free to clear up any mistake that I have made, I do not claim to be an expert, just have done a lot of research and talked to a lot of people. But experience is the best teacher...

 

Sorry to hear that OP...