CRST Malone L/P from the beginning

Weather, Traffic, Break downs, I would hope you have 5-10k in the bank to cover short weeks, Your going to Orientation in the morning so you should have talked to a recruiter and gotta the break down of costs and deductions from them and you know what your bills are at home so you should have a ballpark knowledge of what CPM will be to break even. If you don't know what that number is then don't quit your local job.

 

you will make more than $800 if you really want to and work at it. its not a rental truck. its a lease which means if you dont want it you can turn it in or after 3 years its yours. rental never belongs to you.

 

After thinking long hard about this move i have decided to keep my lical job i bring hime 800-1000 a week with family insurance home everyday and off weeknds .

 

Smart move.

 

It doesn't matter if you do a lease purchase or go to a dealer and buy a truck, if you aren't willing to work hard and make sacrifices your better off being a company driver and doing as your told.

 

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There's no future in renting a truck from the company you're leased to.

 

At my first company driving job, I could pick the loads they had available. We didn't have qual coms. The company wasn't up my arse 24/7. The only thing I had to do was pick up & deliver on time. Make a check call by 10am. And let them know when I was loaded or empty.
They'd let me drive all the miles I could do without messing anything up. And made about $1,000 a week, bring home. (after taxes & insurance)......... Why we've allowed ANY company to be any other way, is our own faults.
Now, we have to buy trucks, pay our own taxes, keep up with our own records and piles of frigging paperwork, just to have more freedoms.
I see more and more lease companies putting in qual coms and tracking their lease operators in the same way the company drivers of today, are being monitored.
There isn't much "freedom of the road" left.

 

I agree there isnt much freedom and yes the day of technology in the truck iis here to stay but regardless of the obstacles put in your way if you are willing to work hard and make some sacrifices you can still be successful.Its not always the hard back breaking work its also the hard decisions and learning to run smarter not harder. I wont put any one down for trying to better them selves. In the U.S today the tide is changing to an entitlement society. So whether you paid cash, financed or lease purchased,or drive a company truck, if your working hard i commend you.

 

Gravdigr, I do believe your thread has gotta way off track, So if you get the chance by all means please update how things are going, what types of loads are you hauling miles per week maybe a break down of Malone vs outside broker loads. Hows the Gold rush truck holding up I had that op idle on a truck once when it worked, it was great but every couple of months it craped out and had to go to the shop to be fixed. What have you learned since being there that you wished you had known before hand, Also Heard a truck stop rumor the other day from a Malone driver that Malone is dumping or buying back shares from CRST so they can dump the CRST name. You heard anything like that?