2014 kw w900

Hype monster?

 

If u only got less than a year exp u better rethink that, isn't a good idea with such little exp and why u can make almost as much as a o/p as a company driver I see no since in it let swift pay the bills the only way a lease pays off if u can survive threw the lease then put down another $50,000 balloon payment or continue paying several more years and hope u don't plan on going home much or 5 yrs or more but u wanna lea
Ive talked to owner o/ps and they said good weeks $1200 to $1800 after expenses some weeks no paycheck and ur in the hole. Hell I've made $1500 weeks as a company driver and always have a pay check.

You would be better to go out of Swift and buy a truck much cheaper monthly payments much ssmaller just saying I have a yr & and wouldn't even think if a lease I will admit I'm still a rookie I'm no pro but I also was told by the wife no truck lol but I plan to go local in 6 months anyways home is more important when u got a wife n kids.

 

I doubt it. They got rid of them before due to the weight issues. We still have some customers that I W-900 can not go into. Plus they are a feul hog.

 

wow scareface yer wrong on so many levels i dont know where to begin, or maybe you were force fed all the bs in the smoking section from them o/o that are "sitting" at a teminal for 3 days refusing loads cause they dont want to pull anything over 30k or have to drive less than 900mi loads..

im sry, but i do very well out here solo, and i for #### sure make more than a company driver any given week. ive been in the hole once, when i 1st got my truck and i didnt know how to work my days off with the fuel and pay periods. so saying we go in the hole and make just as much as a company driver is a flat out lie.. im sry dude, but if we didnt make money ya think we would be out here driving for chump change?

some weeks are bad, yea, but its the season, some weeeks i bank, its the industry. i personally enjoy my truck/lease, the freedom, not forcefed loads the ability to go where i want and if i sit to long i drive 50mi to reposition my truck in a higher freight zone and dont have to ask permission to wipe my ###.. so im sry if ya think its a rzw deal, but dont bash those of us that do it, and do it well..

i go home for a few days at a time, come back and take loads out and still make my note and put money in the bank.. you have to be business smart, have to know how to run a truck and most importantly dont turn down loads.. ive ran loads 2k - 46.3k in the box, we do what we do... drive trucks.
so if they go in the hole, well.. probably because they sit and ##### about this or that..

sry for the rant, but it makes me mad when people bash o/o and say it sucks or a bad deal..

 

Sorry didn't mean to bash u I just went by what I was told and I've talk to several o/o, your o/o would u recommend him to lease with less than a year exp I'm just saying a rookie should have a few years exp first before leasing.

 

1yr exp, probably not, especially a fuel hungry truck.
its best to learn the system no matter what company yer with, then learn the heavy freight zones as well as getting hooked up with a real good o/o dl to keep ya running.
when i was a co. driver i ran the last 6mo in my company truck as an o/o, minus purchasing fuel, of course, and started to learn the ropes from the get go. swift will lease anyone a truck, im proof of that, the only thing they dont tell/teach ya is how to run one. so asking questions, leqrninb what is bs and knowing the business help a ton. i got lucky as my family was in the trucking business for many decads before they got old as dirt and retired, so i had that helping hand.
so i appologise if i came on to strong or stubborn, but i hear drivers all the time talk smack about us o/o and how stupid we are for leasing a truck.. not that you implied that, just saying...

 

As far as being new to this industry, I would not recommend anyone to go into a lease until they had some time under their belt, and like Zuki said, have some time with Swift so that you can see how they work. As I have set in the past, I am not supertrucker, and I try and avg 2800 miles per week. After all expenses and before my taxes, at that, I bring home close to 1300/wk. A company truck, at .40/mi would need to avg 3300 miles per week to gross that.