My lease adventure

This really isnt the kind of thing I can give you advice about as I know nothing about recruiting drivers or leasing your own truck onto a company.

The only thing I can say is to call a company like landstar. I have heard they match drivers with fleet owners. I have no first hand info on that. Just grapvine knowledge. Sorry.

 

So, I have hinted about a change for me in a few different posts on the site for a while now. Today is the day I started making it happen. I paid cash for a 2001 t2000 today. I know... I know... The t2000 is not a very desirable truck. I know many people dislike them. Personally I have always liked them. This truck has the cummins n14 select plus and a super 10. I like that combo very much. I will now be pulling containers out of the port in my area. Home every night and weekends. Money seems pretty good. Daughter will be a senior in high school this year and I don't want to miss her last year at home.

The lease on my ATS truck is done as of yesterday. I will run the truck for another week or so after I come back on the road on the 17th of this month. Just to get my operations account into positive as I am taking 14 days off. Get back to cloud and turn her in.

This last lease was a success for me. I didn't earn as much as I wanted, but it was more than last year and last year was very very good. ATS was a very good company and I am leaving the right way. I will not burn a bridge and hopefully not close a door a I may be interested in opening again in the future. To all of my ATS friends that follow this thread, keep the faith my brothers. The AIP won't actually kill you. The safety quizzes aren't that bad. The rates will always fluctuate. Keep in touch.

 

I edited my post. I forgot to mention it. I will be leasing it on to a company. Pulling containers in and out of the port. Home every day and weekends!!!!

 

I live in New Orleans. There's 2 different companies I'm looking at right now.