Can I get a bit of advice?

If you are going to consider an outside leasing company you can try Lone Mountain Leasing. They have some pretty decent trucks from what I have heard. I don't think a bank will touch you because you don't have the experience so this could be an option.

 

i live in my truck.i'm company driver. use my moms address as my residence. p.o. box(124 dollars/yr) for mail. and storage(32/mo) for all my stuff. i keep storage box of books and one box of dvd and cd in my truck for intertainment. you be suprise how fast you can pay off debt doing this. i started back in october and have almost paid off a 6000. credit card debt(2 more months). i also eat out mostly, so you can save more if you go to grocery store. cant help you regarding leasing or o/o cause i wont be one. good luck on whatever you choose to do

 

if you goto swift flatbed as a company driver and then lease. All you have to pay for is the headache rack. The rest of the equipment transfers over with you. You dont get charge up front. Get a used rack. Phoenix has some and greer body shop has some.

 

I know all about Swift mechanics - I'm a CO driver, after all.

But, I haven't had any more problems with them than any other shop I've been in.
In fact, I have been treated very well by them and they have kept my trucks running very well.

For the most part.
But the 'problem truck' (the ProStar) seemed to be a headache for anyone that worked on it. (I had it for 6 months, with a total in-shop time of 6 weeks!)
And that old Volvo with 525k miles was just a Junker.

I do have a little knowledge, so sometimes I have to steer them in the right direction to get the problem fixed with the first try.
But that has also been the case in the T/A or Petro shops, or the on-road service trucks that are sent, or when I call Swift On-Road.

Fixing problems in these newer trucks can be as much of an art, as it is a science.
So many systems interact with each other, and are controlled by so many others - sometimes the computer codes lead one astray.

I've had this 2013 Volvo for well over a year, and it's been in the shop maybe 8 times. (I got it brand new almost 1.5 years ago)
Only once was it not for the fuel or air filter (and that time is was a bad turbo speed sensor), but every time the codes indicated something else (except for the turbo sensor).
Air filter once, fuel filter every other time. And my current filter appears to be full again, but it keeps on running.
That's my 'little knowledge' and 'art'. Whenever anything goes wrong with the engine losing power, first check those two little things.

 

We have that right here.

All it takes is to start a thread that we can all contribute to.
But then, we would have to search through that thread for all the various tidbits - once it reached a certain length it would be as difficult as searching through the entire forum.

 

Think I might keep an eye on those then, I have noticed the truck not pulling as well especially up hills so will give a good check during my pre trip tomorrow.


As for the knowledge contributing, anyone can build a wiki site, just need someone to organize it and do it.