Power-only trucking sometimes is one of the most misunderstood pieces of the freight industry. Scroll social media long enough and you’ll see it framed as everything from a liability dodge to a race-to-the-bottom strategy that hurts drivers, safety, and rates. Others defend it as one of the few flexible tools left in a market that constantly shifts capacity, demand, and risk. The truth, as usual, lives in the middle. Power-only didn’t appear by accident. It wasn’t designed to exploit drivers or bypass ...