Thinking about starting company, buying a truck and hiring a driver.

Do you really have that much money to waste??
If you get your own numbers then somebody will have to be looking for lds. all the time. Do the billing and signing carrier agreements
Lease to a company and have them dispatch the trk..
Oh the driver gets pissed off and quits. Where's the trk. 2000 miles from you.
Now you have to go get the trk.. So guess who might be having to take time off from their regular job.
Think long and hard.
Oh, I got a buddy who will be running the trk...
Think long and hard please

 

No you find the driver in most cases. Some will help you with hiring, they would also have to pass the compaines
standards as well.
What kind of work are you looking at?
Vans Flats Reefers Tanks?

 

You will have to look around depending where you live.Better find a mid size company or a company that works with owner operators only, brokers etc. You might have to look for a driver and hire by yourself, do background check and drug test for sure. Some companies might supply you with a driver if they have one. Dont lease to a mega carrier they wont pay much, also think about insurance costs, fuel costs, tolls, repairs and maintenance etc

 

Two websites to study that will answer your questions:

OOIDA
Farm2Fleet

 

1) Go to CDL school.

2) Drive at least a year as a company driver.

3) Buy a truck, lease on to company, and drive it yourself until you know what you're doing then possibly think about own authority.


Where do these "I want to buy a truck, put a driver in it, and get rich" people come from? Only way to make money with one truck is driving it yourself.

 

You keep asking that. WE DON'T KNOW!

 

He wouldn't even he able to recover his own truck because he has no CDL! So he'll pay somebody thousands of dollars to tow it or put an ad on Craigslist for somebody to drive the thing home hoping he won't steal it. I knew a guy who tried to do a similar "business" with a bus and lost his a ss.