buying a sprinter & having my own authority.

jmstransport · Oct 27, 2012

Hello everyone. I love your site. I have my authority and I was hauling cars with a dually and a three car. My truck was totaled and I am considering buying a sprinter to haul LTL and expedited freight. Can a person make a living with a sprinter? are there load boards or brokers that broker this type of freight? Thanks in advanced.

JMS Transport
DOT 1423781
MC 799132

BigCat · Oct 27, 2012

You could possibly become partner carriers with some of the bigger companies as long as you have adequate insurance and a good safety record. There are tons of sprinters on the road so they must do well.

jeffman164 · Oct 27, 2012

I have always heard that three car hauling with a dually was pretty profitable . Just out of curiosity , why the change to expediting ??

paullud · Oct 28, 2012

BigCat said:
You could possibly become partner carriers with some of the bigger companies as long as you have adequate insurance and a good safety record. There are tons of sprinters on the road so they must do well.

His MC# starts out with 799 so there probably is little to no record to go on other than an accident that apparently totaled his truck. I believe that most decent companies and brokers want a solid history before they partner with you. It is one of those tough situations where they want experience but few will give you the chance to get any experience.

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jeffman164 · Oct 28, 2012

I'm confused as to what the 799 has to do with the history records ??

BigCat · Oct 28, 2012

It's a really new number jeffman.

jeffman164 · Oct 28, 2012

Just out of curiosity , how would someone know or be able to find out ?? Also , with his MC # being 799132 , I would have to assume that there is a whole lot more than only 800,000 MC numbers out there . I meen , with all of the companies that go out of business , casually truck . or have there MC numbers suspended , I would think that there would be millions of MC numbers out there . Am I wrong ??

Turtle · Oct 28, 2012

There's only about 1.5 million DOT numbers.

BigCat · Oct 28, 2012

jeffman164 said:
Just out of curiosity , how would someone know or be able to find out ?? Also , with his MC # being 799132 , I would have to assume that there is a whole lot more than only 800,000 MC numbers out there . I meen , with all of the companies that go out of business , casually truck . or have there MC numbers suspended , I would think that there would be millions of MC numbers out there . Am I wrong ??

You can look at FMCS safer stat website and it shows form date, number of trucks/drivers and miles driven per year. His dot numbers show he has been in business since 2012.