Should I lease a truck...

First off... Seriously I never wish to own a truck. Nope. Nor do I want to run a small business or have my own authority or anything remotely like being an Owner Op.
But, you guys have probably seen, heard, or done enough to have some insight for my benefit.
I'm a company driver. I like that. I'm driving a leased penski truck. My company signed on when we had a quick need and it was financially prudent. That lease term will be up in a few months and my boss occasionally talks to me about things I don't really understand, like ....peterbuilt blah blah numbers more numbers blah blah kenworth yadda yadda... I don't know I don't care, I drive. Its a big truck. I put fuel in it. I inspect it. That's about the extent of it. They're expensive to buy, operate and repair. I don't want to own one.
All that being said...
Is is possibly to my advantage to provide my own truck, which I would hold the lease on, and run for a larger percentage of the loads? I know that there's a brother of the owner running on their insurance etc in a truck he owns and used to run under some big company. So I know there's lots of possible configuration of who pays for the truck, who holds insurance and DOT stuff.
Is what I'm describing even a thing?

 

Right. My thought was, as a lease, I could be in a position of no repair fiascoes, no having to sell, depreciate, pay taxes on....its like not owning.... But still using. And if that's profitable because I could lease by m standards not my employers....then I would look into it...

 

Well no I actually haven't concluded that its smart. All I know about leases is the fleece aimed at guys who couldn't put together money to do a leasing company, credit check, down payment etc.
Since my boss managed to profit OK from a couple of leases then obviously a full service lease doesn't make the truck unprofitable, so i was just wondering if holding that financial responsibility as the driver would command enough compensation to make it worth researching.
My responses weren't to contradict only to clarify.