Trip Leasing and interlining

In trip leasing, you are working for another carrier without soliciting for the load. If I have a distressed load from a truck broke down, I call in another carrier to take the load the rest of the way and they work for me under that single trip agreement.

interlining is an arranged delivery or pickup for a load. This can be an ongoing thing, the money is split between the carriers with one being the single contact. For example I had to get a driver to Dallas to pick up a trailer he is qualified to take, he was on a load to Idaho, I have arrangements with other carriers who I can tap to take the trailer my driver had in Denver and take it to the delivery, we figure out the amount of money within the “contract” and we are the contact for the broker or customer.

either way, you are not soliciting a customer for the work and then “selling” the load to a third party, which is a broker if you do.

 

Unfortuately you don't anymore except under very tight circumstances. MAP-21, a highway bill from years past, eliminated a carrier’s right to interline for convivence with another authorized carrier. What this means is a carrier must handle some part of the shipment on their own truck before they can hand off the rest of the shipment to another authorized carrier without a broker agreement or lease. Example, you pick up the freight at the shipper in New Jersey and bring it back to your yard in Pennsylvania then I take it from there with my equipment to deliver in Ohio. That is a legal interline agreement, however if you asked me to pick it up directly at the shipper in NJ and take it all the way to OH, that would require a broker authority, which could be the carrier’s own brokerage or an independent broker.

Trip leasing is still technically possible but it requires a fully executed lease as if you were signing up to run under their authority, their numbers displayed, etc. Trip leasing is just what is sounds like, leasing your equipment to a carrier to operate under their authority for a single trip. With all the hoops to jump through it really isn't feasible anymore.

The days of a carrier partnering with another carrier are gone for most purposes.