PGT Lease Purchase

It's been exposed on this forum that they hire CDL school newbs. Obviously they are pawning off their old co. trucks to L/P suc-, ahem, prospects. You'd be getting truck abused by trainees.

Get a job as a percentage paid driver. Then you know what the income is and when the truck needs work you are the one to take it to the shop and give the bill to your boss so you know the expense.

Then decide if you want to be the one to act as a money conduit from customer to vendor.

Leasing a truck just to experiment in business is ridiculous. It is a half-hearted commitment.
Buy a truck and just do it or forget about it. It's not hard. It's just trucking, wrenching and math.

Have you checked PGT's CSA scores?

 

Call me dumb but i have been looking at PGT lease program for a week or so it is by far the driver friendliest i have come across. Also that post is outdated you can get a 2009 with them now which for 250 a week isnt that bad. Id would much prefer a loan from a bank to get my own truck but i have not one clue about the O/O side of trucking and would like my hand held the first time i have a go at it. I have called over 30 companies about there lease program and PGT was the only one who knew about there own program. There lease drivers billed on average 3200 a week last month and have over a 80% lease success rate. I dont know anyone else who even cares enough to know this info to tell you when you call. I only know the numbers because i was on the phone with them yesterday.

 

hey friend ive been with pgt for 3 years..im not lease purchase i brought my own rig over...talk to some of the guys that are leasing..yea they have a good program and will take care of ya..but you gotta have the freight availabe to get the money for the truck..me and about 5 other driver are leaving this week because its not there anymore....those that are still there are just use to pgt bailing them out if there truck breaks down...speak to some lease purchase guys and see what they bring home after truck payment...

 

oh yea our csa scores..man ive never been stopped by DOT so much as i have in the last 3 years..and im talking DRIVER POP YOUR BRAKES AND BRING YOUR PAPER WORK IN... i stopped you because you pgt...real talk no joke

 

Hey semi, All the big companies now are hiring CDL newbs. And lets be honest, any fleet truck is going to be used and abused no matter how well the driver takes care of it. Fleet maint. is not always the best, you know this.
Some guys that want to get a truck may not always be able to run down to a dealer throw a few thousand bucks on the desk and walk out with the keys. Many that are new to this industry is because of job shortages/ returning vets ( aka Newbs) like my self or kids that grew up in this industry and are now 21 yrs old that are able to run with the big companies to gain experience. And that is the kicker for everyone. Now I am sure you have seen alot in your 28 yrs of driving, but you also had to start somewhere. And with the new FMCSA #### we are all dealing with and the Federal laws that are in place, No one can just go and test for their CDL and start driving for a company. They are required to have some experience from a credited school.

As far as PGT's scores are concerned they are surely in the tank, and the worst of the scores are log book violations and OOS log book violations. Those are all a result of the I/C ( independent contractors) who are still running paper logs and falsifying the books. All the company drivers are all on E-logs to help mitigate this. I am a I/C with PGT and do not fudge my books because that is jeopardizing my career. Also look at the # of truck PGT has compared to the # of truck our competition has, that also plays apart in the scoring.

Now that I am done with my rant, all I am trying to get across here is that no large company is ever going to be perfect in any aspect to any driver. I do respect your experience and insight, just please keep in mind what we have to go through to get into the industry these days let alone trying to get good valuable experience.

 

Grossing $3200/wk? Wow, thats low. You might make $750-800 take home.

 

some good reading on the whole L/p thing (a free e-book)...Looks to me like they aren't too bad from the posts I have seen so far.

http://sanity.dontexist.org/pub/The First Time Class-8 Lease-Purchase Owner-Op Guide.pdf

 

Anyone seen the 2010 peterbilt 387's they are offering??