Crst malone, the inside story

Ok, so I havent had a chance to get back on here for a few days but hopefully I can clear some stuff up for you.
You had said that you are a company driver for CRST so that means you would be pulling van. I am on the Malone side of CRST which is flatbed and purely o/o and lease. I dont know how much is differnt on the lease between van and flatbed but I know the trucks are older here, 2006-up.
Your first question maint. covers bumper to bumper for the first two years(@ .12cpm), then your last year your maint. actully goes up to .14cpm if I remember right but some of that is actully yours now. but maint. only covers pm type issues for the most part, major mechanical issues your on your own My fixed expenses are about $850 a week plus fuel. That leaves me around $2500/ wk in my cost with about $3500-4500+ in gross revenue, that leaves a paycheck of $1000-2000+/ wk it can and does vary depending on the revenue of the freight you haul.
As for your credit it doesnt matter, atleast on the flatbed side you sign a walkaway lease for 3 years and start trucking. And you DO get percentage, 75% of linehaul, 100% of everything else. so if you had a load paying $1000 line haul, $500 Fuel, and $50 to tarp you would get $1300 to haul that load and saying the load was 650 miles you could get up to about $500 for fuel, (loaded miles/5.5mpg * avg cost fuel) then $50 extra if you want it. so that load you would make $800.
As for what you bring home now, you can do better. if your not bringing home $650-750 on a bad week, there is a problem, either the way you run or the way your dispatched, or just the wrong company for you. every driver on the road in my opinion should be atleast getting close to $1000/ wk.

 

Atleast at Malone they send the trucks through the lease program once for the most part, unless someone tries and fails after a month and someone has to go get the truck, they used to keep the trucks in the system for 3 years and that was it, if someone leased the truck for 2 years 11 months you could get the truck make payment for a month then pay $5000 balloon and congrats, you got a truck( with about 800,000 miles or more)
as for dispatch you have a dispatcher or fleet manager or whatever you want to call him/ her that gets your hours/ miles for the previous day and they put you on the load that YOU FIND AND WANT, then they give you fuel money and thats it. It is truely no forced dispatch because if you dont want the load, you dont call the agent.
As for the $ amount to keep in maint. good point, if you have to pay repairs then you should definetly have a nice nest egg to fall on for repairs, and alot of people think they can get away with maybe $5000 or so, but in reality that would cover very little. The more you can put in a maint. acct the better. but a good thing here is you have 2 years to build up some money before you have ANY possible Maint cost to you on a lease.

 

I have a buddy that pulled for them for a while and loved Maverick, he only left because he wanted to run his own truck and bought from a dealership, but Maverick wont let you lease a truck to them if you dont buy there's, atleast at the time, I dont know if that has changed, but overall I have no problem recomending Maverick if you want good pay, home weekends, and good equipment. I just dont want an automatic truck!!!

 

3 Year Lease purchase, $5000 balloon payment. $522/ week is ALL fixed expenses. $185/ wk lease payment $185/ wk trailer rental which includes all maint for the trailer then about $150/wk for tags, insur. permits etc

my truck is a 06 century, 36 month lease, $5000 balloon that they will finance for you if you need to and I am not 100% but am fairly sure there is no penalty if you pay the truck off early, just when you do, your 2 year bumper to bumper stops.
so no, not $2088/ month for the just the truck, about $740/ month just for the truck.