Lease operator and owner operator are synonymous mostly used to differentiate between those who buy a truck on their own credit and those who lease one and give

Lease operator and owner operator are synonymous mostly used to differentiate between those who buy a truck on their own credit and those who lease one and give it back to the company at the end (to usually get another lease). —edit— Should add lease operators almost always do this so they have a warranty on the truck because things get really expensive really fast when they don’t.