Power Only Trucking

Just the tractor — the carrier supplies the truck and driver, and the shipper or broker supplies a pre-loaded trailer. Common with drop-and-hook freight and retail distribution networks.

In a power-only arrangement, the carrier shows up with just a tractor and driver — no trailer of its own — and hooks onto a trailer the shipper or broker already has loaded and staged. That works well for drop-and-hook freight, where a driver picks up a preloaded trailer and drops an empty one without waiting for a live load or unload, and it's become more common as retail distribution networks have built out their own dedicated trailer pools.

Power Only describes a trailer or equipment configuration, not a cargo type — FMCSA's public carrier data records what a carrier hauls (from its MCS-150 filing), not what equipment it uses to haul it. That means we can't reliably identify which carriers in our directory run power only equipment, so this page doesn't include a filtered carrier list. Browse the full carrier directory instead, or pick one of the equipment types below — all backed by real FMCSA cargo data.

Other Equipment Types

Dry Van Reefer Flatbed Box Truck Step Deck Hotshot Tanker Auto Carrier Intermodal / Container LTL