The present invention relates to a method of leading a moving body, such as a print head carrier of a printer of the like, which is driven by a direct current brushless motor, to a starting position. The direct current brushless motor, which forms part of the present invention, includes a stator including a plurality of armature coils secured on a stator yoke through a substrate, a disk-like magnet having N and S poles arranged alternately in the circumferential direction, the magnet being arranged to confront the armature coils, and a rotatable rotor provided with a speed-detecting slit arranged outside the magnet. Rotating power is obtained by applying an electric current corresponding to the magnetic pole of the magnet to each armature coil. A speed detector detects the speed-detecting slit and puts out a frequency pulse voltage proportional to the speed and a counter counts the output pulses from the speed detector to count out the timing to change the excitation phases to the armature coils so as to continuously rotate the rotor. The method of the present invention is characterized in that a stopper to stop the motion of the moving body is arranged so that at a position of a maximum torque of the direct current brushless motor or a predetermined position close to the maximum torque position, the moving body impinges against the stopper to stop rotation of the rotor, the count number in the counter is reset and the motor is then driven in the reverse direction to lead and locate the moving body at a starting position.