need advice, lease purchase is leaving me broke

I dont mean any disrespect. But I was earning that as a company driver with out the stress and headaches involved being an O/O.

My truck is currently leased and I operate under their authority. Me personally,.. I would lose sleep at night if thats all my weekly settlements were. Again,.. not judging or trying to be insulting. I dont know what your expenses are. But I know what my numbers are and my equipment is paid for.

Hurst

 

Yes I'm making what a company driver makes but AFTER all my truck expenses. So therefore I'm buying the truck PLUS making those decent company driver wages. You all always seem to leave that part out and my mileage deductions are all money I get back at the end of the contract and my maintenance fund so discounting those, for the truck, insurance, Qualcomm, etc I pay a total of 859.21 a week. 625 for the truck itself for a total of $120,000 for a 2016 peterbilt 386 o/o spec'd with a 15 litre Cummins isx hd, 13 speed, unibilt 72" double bunk sleeper with full cabinets and refrigerator, aluminum wheels and new Michelin x2 series low profile tires, optima batteries and a thermo king evolution apu and it had like 258'000 miles when I got it. If you check you'll find that's a fair price for that truck. I only mention this because I figure that will come up.

 

That's all I'm going tho add tho this thread about me because outs all elsewhere and I don't want to hijack a thread. I was just originally responding to another post.

 

Two friends in the oldest profession sat down one day to compare notes. One was a lot lizard, the other, a high end call girl.

Call girl: I made $15000 last week.

Lizard: I made $15000 too!

Call girl: I only got porked once.

Lizard: I have more satisfied customers.

 

Did either one mention their lease contract terms?

 

Well, one of them is contacted via the web. And you pay for "companionship" with a girl that's prettier than most Hollywood actresses. And the other lives in a parking lot and bangs on doors looking for miles.

 

LOL

Thats a pretty good analogy.

Hurst

 

This was a story I started on a year or so ago...

Anyway, the moral of the story is in the business of getting screwed, and we all are going to get screwed, discussions of low end economics are simply disgusting.

 

Do what makes you happy,.. learn from your mistakes,.. try to respect those who came before you,.. try to pass on what you can to those who are patient enough to listen.

In the end,.. we all need to eat. Some eat better than others. I've personally come a long way from my humble beginnings.

Hurst