Originally Posted by chompi

I am driving for jct. Its like any other lease or trk payment. If you go home you still have to make your trk payment. If you get sick you still have to make your trk payment etc... If it is some major sickness that takes a couple of months to recover from, they will take the trk back and charge you for any fees from which the trk has accumilated, like maintenance, recover fees, and so on. They have a very good lease program, however it is still running a business and can cost money out of pocket, and unexpected fees. It is no different than any other owner operator. You can make good money if you are a refined driver and know what you are doing. You can also run yourself into the ground in a hurry if your not business savvy. Phoenix is a good place to live for JCT. Most loads come in and out of La. and being an owner operator it is hard on the wallet if you like to go home often. You do have to go to sapulpa, ok for orientation though.Its about a week.They pay for the hotel and lunch.No orientation pay. Please make sure you are not strapped for cash or have a tight budget at home before coming. Starting off a business in the hole could be a dangerous proposition. If you start off taking advances the chances are high that you wont make it. JCT is a great company to work for and we have many good drivers that make good money. Most of them are experienced previously. JCT requires one year otr. You can check out there website if you want or leave me a message.Dont be afraid to call one of the recruiters they are very nice. Give them my trk number(L1934a) they pay bonuses for recruitment.

Originally Posted by runningonempty

Yes u have to. JCT is getting rid of the company drivers thing and it'll be gone by the end of this year. But one nice thing though. When you join JCT you don't have to pay truck payments for the first month and he gives you 200 gallans of gas free to start out. He knows that you coming in probably without a dime (so to speak) and that's his way of helping. After that you're truck payments are between $450.00 to $550 a week. Our truck payments are going to be $450.00 a week. I am not sure if the truck payments go as high as $500.00 or $550.00 a week. The newer the truck the higher the weekly payments lets say that lol. But I can almost bet it don't go higher than $550.00 a week. That you would have to double check with John. But at least the payments are going to owning it, and in 3 to 5 yrs (however quick you pay it off) it's yours. Not like junky England you keep paying and don't get nothing. Also Sno one other thing, I did the math and after you pay off the load locks they want you to have and that, you're weekly deductions from your paycheck is something like $234.00 a week plus your fuel and your truck payments. Mr. Christner pays for all the road/highway taxes, the permits the whole nine yards. I researched and you can't find another company that does that. Mr. Christner has drivers that own two and some three and Mr. Christner helps them sub lease those trucks out while they're still driving for him. For tolls, Mr. Christner has IPass, PikePass, and EZpass. If there's a toll one of the three passes don't cover, you contact your DM and he'll send you an AR number for an EFS check (we don't use comdata), and u use that to cover the tolls. To give you an idea of what you could make with JCT, my hubby and I ran 2500 miles (slow week) and got paid a net check of $1,844.00. Even with the truck payment that still would have left us with $1,394.00. This week here we got paid $1,539.00. That just shows you the range you get paid. You run miles you do favors for them, they take notice of that and if you need to do an emergency down the street your DM will help. You run the miles and they strongly look at that and you get little bennies for it. That's what a driver told my hubby and that driver drove for JCT for 9 years now. And Sno, the drivers of JCT are really nice. (I ran into 2 grumps) out of the month we been here, but that is truly rare. Say one of the drivers had a death in the family, all the drivers pitch in and take a collection. Or if a driver is sick they take a collection. Really family oriented. Pass another JCT on the road they wave to you like they knew you all along. I never seen that before. I just love the company. I could ramble on about them forever. Which your eyes are probably crossed by now. But still anymore questions please feel free. Take care. Oh and if you do join JCT keep a look out if you like for truck no. L1491G. That's our truck now. It's a Freightshaker.

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