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.
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Fleets adding owner-operator capacity run into the same three walls.
Buying trucks means capital, financing, and depreciation you carry straight through the next downturn.
Finding company drivers gets slower and more expensive every year.
Turn down freight, or take on the risk. Most fleets just live with the ceiling.
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.
TEL puts owner-operators in trucks and stands behind them with maintenance management and business advising, so the equipment side is covered.
The owner-operator hauls your freight, under your authority and your brand. You get the added capacity without adding it to your balance sheet.
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.
A straightforward path to adding owner-operator capacity, start to finish.
Owner-operators get new trucks through TEL, ready to go now. No truck capital required from you.
TEL connects you with owner-operators actively looking for a carrier, so you're not starting from zero.
Trucks roll under your authority, your freight, and your brand.
Add trucks under your own authority as demand grows, capacity that's there when the freight is.
Every objection to owner-operator growth has an answer built into the program.
More trucks generating revenue, zero capex or depreciation on your books.
Add a division, not a department. TEL helps manage maintenance and supports your operators.
Seat trucks in a fraction of the time it takes to build a program from scratch.
Real trucking expertise standing behind every partnership.
You add capacity without buying trucks or carrying them on your balance sheet, and owner-operators bring an ownership mindset to uptime and equipment.
Yours. Owner-operators run under your authority and brand as part of your fleet.
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.
Much faster than ordering trucks from scratch, since the equipment is already available. We'll map a timeline to your goals.
Talk to an advisor and see how the Carrier Program could grow your fleet.