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TEL Carrier Program

Grow Your Fleet.
Not Your Balance Sheet.

Add or expand your owner-operator division without buying a single truck. TEL gives you immediate access to new trucks and connects you with operators looking for a carrier.

Asset-Light Growth Turnkey Program Speed to Capacity A Real Partner
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The Growth Bottleneck

Every truck you buy is a gamble.

Fleets adding owner-operator capacity run into the same three walls.

Capital Risk

Buying trucks means capital, financing, and depreciation you carry straight through the next downturn.

Tight Driver Market

Finding company drivers gets slower and more expensive every year.

The Forced Choice

Turn down freight, or take on the risk. Most fleets just live with the ceiling.

The Solution

Grow capacity you don't have to own.

An owner-operator division puts more trucks under your authority without putting them on your books. The TEL Carrier Program hands you that division, ready to run.

Three-way partnership between the carrier, the owner-operator, and TEL
TEL's Role

Supplies the trucks and supports the operators.

TEL puts owner-operators in trucks and stands behind them with maintenance management and business advising, so the equipment side is covered.

Your Role

Ready to run under your brand.

The owner-operator hauls your freight, under your authority and your brand. You get the added capacity without adding it to your balance sheet.

The Equipment

New Trucks. More Profit.

Older equipment breaks down, and every breakdown costs the operator miles and costs you uptime. That's why TEL puts every operator in the Carrier Program behind the wheel of a NEW Class 8 sleeper, not a used truck with unknown history. New equipment means fewer roadside failures, lower repair costs for the operator, and reliability to keep your customers coming back.

Volvo VNL 860

Volvo VNL 860

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Peterbilt 579

Peterbilt 579

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Freightliner Cascadia

Freightliner Cascadia

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Kenworth T680

Kenworth T680

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How It Works

From open capacity to trucks on the road.

A straightforward path to adding owner-operator capacity, start to finish.

1

We Supply the Trucks

Owner-operators get new trucks through TEL, ready to go now. No truck capital required from you.

2

Operators Are Already Available

TEL connects you with owner-operators actively looking for a carrier, so you're not starting from zero.

3

You Run the Capacity

Trucks roll under your authority, your freight, and your brand.

4

You Scale With Demand

Add trucks under your own authority as demand grows, capacity that's there when the freight is.

More owner-operator capacity inside your fleet, without the capital, the iron, or the process.
What Sets Us Apart

Every objection, already solved.

Every objection to owner-operator growth has an answer built into the program.

01

Asset-Light Growth

More trucks generating revenue, zero capex or depreciation on your books.

"I don't want more iron to carry."
02

Turnkey, Not a Build

Add a division, not a department. TEL helps manage maintenance and supports your operators.

"Building a program is a whole project."
03

Speed to Capacity

Seat trucks in a fraction of the time it takes to build a program from scratch.

"Growing organically is too slow."
04

A Partner, Not a Vendor

Real trucking expertise standing behind every partnership.

"Who's going to stand behind this?"
Carrier Program FAQs

Answers before you call.

How is this different from hiring company drivers?

You add capacity without buying trucks or carrying them on your balance sheet, and owner-operators bring an ownership mindset to uptime and equipment.

Whose authority do the trucks run under?

Yours. Owner-operators run under your authority and brand as part of your fleet.

Why does TEL only lease new trucks?

New equipment means fewer breakdowns, full factory warranty coverage, and better fuel economy, all of which keep operators on the road and your uptime predictable. It also means no unknown maintenance history working against you.

How fast can we add capacity?

Much faster than ordering trucks from scratch, since the equipment is already available. We'll map a timeline to your goals.

Ready to add capacity without adding iron?

Talk to an advisor and see how the Carrier Program could grow your fleet.

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