Just a tractor and no trailer to feed? Power only is built for you — pull preloaded trailers, skip the trailer overhead, and keep the wheels turning with drop-and-hook freight. We find the loads, negotiate the rates, and handle the paperwork.
Power only lets you run a tractor without owning or maintaining a trailer — you hook the customer's preloaded trailer and go. It's a low-overhead way to operate, but it lives or dies on keeping the truck moving between trailer pools. As your dispatcher, we:
Power only spans a lot of freight because you're pulling whatever the customer's trailer holds: dry van drop-and-hook for large shippers and trailer pools, reefer power only, flatbed and step deck power only for equipment dealers, and spot loads where a shipper has a loaded trailer but no truck. That flexibility is your advantage — we can keep you booked across multiple freight types with one tractor.
Skipping the trailer investment is a real edge — but empty miles between trailer pools erase it fast. Our job is to string your hooks together so your low overhead actually turns into higher take-home.
Power only means coordinating with trailer pools and shippers, tracking where empties and loaded trailers are, and stitching drop-and-hook moves into a continuous week. That's a lot of moving parts to juggle from the cab. A dispatcher keeps your hooks lined up, targets the best-paying power only freight, and handles the setups so you keep rolling.
Send your MC/DOT authority, insurance, W-9, and a signed dispatch agreement, tell us your tractor and preferred lanes, and we start booking — usually within 24 hours. See the 4-step process, or if you're just starting out, our new authority dispatch.
Power only means you provide just the tractor and pull a trailer that the shipper, broker, or a trailer pool already owns and often has preloaded. It's popular because you skip the cost of buying and maintaining a trailer and often get drop-and-hook freight with less time waiting at the dock.
No — that's the point. You bring the tractor and pull the customer's trailer. Many loads are drop-and-hook, so you drop an empty and grab a loaded one, keeping your wheels turning instead of sitting through live loads.
It can be, especially if you want lower overhead and steady drop-and-hook lanes without a big trailer investment. The key is a dispatcher keeping you on well-paying power only loads and minimizing empty repositioning between trailer pools.
Power only dispatch is billed as a flat weekly fee or a percentage of linehaul. We size the fee so it's covered by better-paying loads and fewer empty miles between drops. Contact us for a free quote.
Tell us your tractor and your lanes. A dispatcher will reach out with a plan — no obligation, no long-term contract.
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