Types Of Truck Drivers

There are two major types of truck driver employment:

Owner-operators (also known as O/Os, or "doublestuffs" are individuals who own the trucks they drive and can either lease their trucks by contract with a trucking company to haul freight for that company using their own trucks, or they haul loads for a number of companies and are self-employed independent contractors. There are also ones that lease a truck from a company and make payments on it to buy it in two or three years. 

Company drivers are employees of a particular trucking company and drive trucks provided by their employer.