[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A specially appointed U.S. Department of Transportation leasing task force has begun examining maintenance provisions in lease-purchase ...

FMCSA's Truck Leasing Task Force discussed the fairness of—and possible solutions to—lease-purchase agreements between carriers and drivers. This was the fourth meeting of the Truck Leasing Task Force ...

As an owner-operator, you enjoy more freedom from supervision than a company driver. As an owner-operator leased to a carrier, to an extent you’re able to set your own hours and take time off when you ...

Carrier lease-purchase agreements are “irredeemable tools of fraud" that threaten supply chains, a federal task force on truck leasing warns Congress. An FMCSA task force is pushing Congress to ban ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A federal truck leasing task force commissioned to study the prevalence of predatory practices in truck lease-purchase agreements ...

For an owner-operator, necessary tax payments associated with truck ownership and operation start with required truck registration. Independents are responsible for their own registrations. Leased ...