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    Talking good and bad on leasing a truck

    Hello my husband is a company driver for prime but he is wanting to become a lease operator. I'm just wanting to hear the good and bad about it. Thanks in advance for your answers

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    hahahaha.......just do a search for prime lease but h prob wont listen it is all milk and honey at prime so i here

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    when you lease You gotta run hard and stay away from home if you wan't to make money. Im speaking from experience. You gotta hold back about $8,000.00 per year for the tax man. All repairs come out of your pocket like tires, oil changes, and worse.

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    Ask IP, hes a L/O. He runs a successful lease truck. He started a thread about it on here.

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    IP is a mutant, a one percenter that can hang with the lease. Lock yourself in for up to three years and hope and pray your fleet manager can keep you from going broke.

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    Like the post before, its all milk and honey, ask yourself why the hotel fills up every week with new recruits. I recently looked at a few used lease trucks maint records and see where they had three or four different operators in less than a year.. Look at the qualcomm issues they have with Maint dept and gives you an idea of their frustration. Pray you don't get a lemon..

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    I think he's deciding to stay company for awhile til we can get alot of money held back which will be hard seeing we have 3 young babies at home. We can't afford for him to go broke or not make money lol he just thought that he'd make better money being a lease operator. Thanks for your guys input keep on doing what your doing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hortons_wife View Post
    I think he's deciding to stay company for awhile til we can get alot of money held back which will be hard seeing we have 3 young babies at home. We can't afford for him to go broke or not make money lol he just thought that he'd make better money being a lease operator. Thanks for your guys input keep on doing what your doing.
    How well does he do as a company driver in terms of average miles per week?

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    Averages about 2000 miles a wk sometimes more sometimes less...he's only been with prime since April.

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    I think that if you are not leasing at Prime, you should keep your ill informed comments to yourself. Not everyone was meant to run a business, and that is what it is, a business. If you failed to make it, I would suggest looking in the mirror before passing judgment.

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