That's the mileage my truck is at with these problems. Your post said 'when the mega hands you a worn out truck' which sounds like you think 210k is worn out...our trucks are traded just as often as your company's(in terms of years). And I wouldn't work for a company that A) makes me clean out my truck weekly and go home B) rents(leases) a truck, especially from a company like Penske or Ryder..I like having my truck at home at hometime, with my stuff right where I left it when I shut it down in my driveway. That way, when I get home, if it's late, I can walk in the house and lay down beside the wife without delay...then, I can bring in the stuff like laundry and my remaining fridge stuff I didn't use that week in the morning.
I understood just fine, a lease truck is a lease truck, regardless of who pays the rental payment. It still equals to 0 equity at then end of the agreement. I still think renting a truck this size is a poor business decision unless it's a short term lease because a delay in the delivery of a purchased fleet. When the inevitable slowdown in the economy hits, a lease payment still has to be made, regardless of if the truck turned any miles. With a purchased vehicle like ours...we have no payments, so all it does is burn a little fuel, it doesn't cost the company anything but time. And since we trade our trucks around a certain mileage, it just means they keep it a little longer before trading it.
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Its probably all in the tax write offs....depreciation vs lease payments. I know my company has gone from leasing to purchasing their trucks in the last three years.
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I don't clean the truck out when I take off for weekend. We lease our equipment but it is our company trucks. Company logo's etc on them just like yours does. We park on our yard and Penske comes over and maintains them for us. Their shop is about two miles away. I still don't know where you got the idea that I thought 210K in miles was wore out. What I meant by wore out is the condition that some trucks are in when assigned to a driver.
You've seemed to have a laundry list of problems with the trucks they have deemed ready but were assigned to you. Enough said already. Have a nice day.ncmickey Thanks this. -
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The company I work for leases their trucks from Penske (about 35 trucks)...We own our trailers as they are pretty specialized. Since we haul pharmaceuticals, vaccines, insulin, plasma etc it makes sense to me. If we have a breakdown on the road, Penske will have the truck fixed within 3 hrs or tow us a loaner so we can keep running. With these loads, they do not want us sitting in a hotel or a valuable pharmaceutical load sitting somewhere waiting for a repair. In over 3 years, not one night in a hotel due to a break down.
Penske isn’t great.... but they do take their roadside service serious....
Most I’ve ever waited was 6 hrs. That was because they tried to fix the truck but couldn’t get the part so they had to tow a loaner from a few hrs away.Last edited: Mar 18, 2021
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That's how our operation works too.
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