Define Power Only.

You supply tractor. I.e. you supply power only.

 

When you see a nice truck pulling a complete turd trailer it is probably a power only load.

 

Its not just the trailers. Can cowboys are power only...and their trucks usually look like turds.

As others said you supply the truck, its used a lot of times on load boards to move new trailers or trailers that somebody else has bought, or if somebody has trailers sitting and needs them moved. I suppose most owner operators that lease on are considered power only because they don't own the trailer. Its an umbrella term.

 

Hence; "re-power" a load means to put a different truck under an existing load/dispatch.

 

Companies such as Cardinal Logistics use many power only employees, you supply the tractor, they supply the trailer & loads.

Farm2Fleet, you supply the tractor.

Check their websites for what you need.

 

To be a little more clear on this. At Farm2Fleet I rent a trailer so the loads I book online are not "power only" since I am bringing a trailer to the shipper to be loaded. For a power only load, I would bobtail to the shipper and hook to their trailer that has been pre-loaded. We ran UPS loads at Christmas like this. There are power only loads on the load boards. I know a couple of drivers who only do power only. They have no financial responsibility for the trailers they haul. Kinda limits you though.

 

No, I can run power only loads under f2f's authority no problem.