Governing lease trucks illegal

I joined you.

 

Do you dispatch yourself or does the company decide where you're going? Can you sit at home if you choose? If the company is controlling these aspects of your "business", they most likely have the legal right to force you to run 67 (or 62 or 75 or whatever).

 

When you lease your truck over to Swift they will require you to bring it into their shop to have it governed to 68 max mph even if your name is on the title.

 

Good possibility that there insurance set the governed speed of these trucks , and if it's a lease truck ,it would be in the lease agreement on the set parameters of the truck , that you don't have so sign. That's how they legally get away with it . You sign the contract , as far as an independent. . I don't know of one that there truck is governed

 

Which is something, as the owner of the truck, you have the right to say "HECK NO!" and take YOUR truck elsewhere...a luxury not enjoyed by somebody renting a truck from Swift's L/P division to then sign on with Swift. Some companies also require equipment no older than a specified age as well...which again is THEIR right to do so, as it is MY right as a truck owner to simply take MY truck elsewhere or buy a newer truck if I really want to work with that company. A truck owner has a choice, and the truck goes with the truck owner. A truck renter does not have these same choices. A renter is stuck with whatever the company has available, and if you leave that company, you do so without the truck.

 

How is governing a truck a tax classification question?

 

Ahhhhh yes. Had a good laugh at that one.

With that said, this thread is great. Very informative thank you to all contributors.

 

Mine's better, it craps out Lucky Charms. With blue stars even.

 

Doh!

 

Taking that one small step further, the insurance company providing the policy may actually require, yup, a governor set at anything they want to within the policy.

Now one could reject their offer and speed limit requirement but then you need to find a policy that will allow unlimited speed. Which is possible but it might cost you more in premiums.

So even if financed doesn't mean you will be free of a speed limiter... Or if you are, at what cost.

But I am guessing that too is illegal...