Alliance questions

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Talk to as many Alliance drivers as you can and get their opinions.

If you talk to them, most of the Alliance drivers are losing money. Some are or claim to be doing really well though.

All Im saying is do alot of research before committing to see if its right for you.

 

Really? You have any way to back up that statement? I cant say for certain, but I think you are wrong.

 

It's really easy....if someone wasn't successful with Alliance, then they ASSUME MOST people are not successful.
The fact that more people resign leases than not should indicate it's largely successful.
I spoke with Bonnie about this very thing the last time I was on the yard (3 months ago) and she told me more than 90% of leases that had 'matured' (finished) so far this year had the lessee resigning a new lease.
Doesn't sound like most are unsuccessful to me.

 

Are there any advantages to leasing instead of buying a truck?

 

Leasing, as it's done by many carriers, is shared risk.
I can't speak for all the other carriers, however, at Stevens, this means you share in the risk of doing business, but have a greater chance of making more money.
As an example, as a company driver, I would be making something like 0.34/mile, but as a lease operator, I make in the high 0.40's.
Same runs, same miles...
Most of the money is made by being cost effective in the fuel area.
If you don't pay the fuel bill, you don't make as much effort to save mpgs.
Just making one more mpg with fuel at $4.00 per gallon results in more than 10 cents per mile more pay to you. At 120M miles per year, that means more than $12,000 in your pocket.
There are other ways to make more money, but fuel is probably the single most.

 

OK... I said that wrong. My mistake.

Most of the Alliance drivers that I have spoken with about the Alliance program arent making a living at it or arent making the amount of money that they feel that they should be.

Like I said before, some are successful at it, some arent. And again, the folks coming in and trying to make the decision to go Alliance or not need to RESEARCH.

 

If you are insinuating that I wasnt successful at Alliance, I guess that you are right. But the main reason that I wasnt is because I never was an Alliance driver. I was smart enough to stay on the company side.

If you want to sucker into that 90% figure, how many actually complete the lease? Her statement is mnisleading if you think about it.

I dont know the numbers but lets say that only 10% of the drivers that sign a lease actually complete it. If 90% of that 10% re-sign, that sounds like just a few successful lease drivers to me.