Team owner operator

In the right situation leasing can be more profitable than one truck authority. He won't know until he figures out the business. Just cause an operation gets 100% of everything doesn't always mean that operation is getting anything worth hauling nor staying as busy as it wants to be.

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if you can get on percentage, the down side is you will only get paid for the loaded miles if you millage base you get paid for all miles..
and not all companies are the same in the way they do it but for us the percentage pay is much better

you need to know just what is and IS NOT paid by the company, millage v percentage

@ the company we are leased to millage = free base plate/percentage = I pay for my base plate $1.475 a year
millage = free per-pass and ez-pass/ percentage = free pre-pass I pay for ez-pass (I pay all tolls)
millage = millage pay for all miles (dispatched)/ percentage = percentage of load pay
millage (at this company) is sliding pay short = higher pay, long = lower pay. I can be sitting next to a millage base o/o pulling the same load, they are getting $1.20 a mile + fsc (national avg) i'm getting $2-$5 plus 100% of customer paid fsc. I've had loads that the fsc was more than the fuel cost to make the run
does the company give you a fuel discount....? how much...? mine runs .10-.40 cents off the pump price
how old is the truck you are looking at....? remember some companies will not take aa older truck 7-10 years old, if it's a 2007 or older you can't go into CA.... mine is a 06 so I can't do CA and I don't want to anyway. just something to think about

 

Since you are team driving the less miles the better! If you 2 average 150k miles driving a year in 6 years you will have put 900k miles on your truck.