My experience with used trucks has been so bad, I'm scared to consider it as an option. I mean, REALLY BAD. Like tens of thousands of dollars in the first year. Bankrupt level bad. Both as a company driver and a lease operator..and I'm talking about just 270,000 miles.
My addendum to this is that I'm at a lease company that floats you the money for repairs. I literally drove myself out of debt. Without that help, my first used truck with them would have emptied my savings account and left me with multiple negative settlements.
My answer to Schneider load board being fixed.
Discussion in 'Schneider' started by rickybobby, Jan 2, 2018.
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But I need an alignment, clutch soon I'm at 460K, and the rear main seal is starting to weep, so that gets done same time.
I'll get new steers before the end of spring as well.
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If I wanted to be a mechanic, I'd of went to mechanicing school.
Seriously, you make your best revenue doing what you're good at. Spending 10 hrs to do what a competent mechanic can do in 2 hrs is stupid. Just my half a cents worth on that subject. -
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I tell everyone Landstar is not for the faint of heart lol.
Post office is good work though.
I'd love to be UPS local driver, door to door guy, those guys are at $90K year. -
Do it yourself and save time AND money, plus you get under there and get a good look at other stuff and maybe catch another potential problem before it leaves you on the side of the highway. Because THAT is what will make a person go broke the quickest: big tow bill, mechanic bill, plus all the down time, missing loads, etc.shogun and Dave_in_AZ Thank this. -
And I realize this is the Schneider thread and I don't drive for Schneider. Just giving my opinion here. I'd like to see more of you guys make it instead of hearing about failed lease purchase deals, or guys constantly job hopping because they just couldn't make money at the last place they were leased to. If you can bring home owner/operator pay but not have all the bills of most owner/operators, you're at a definite advantage. Of course you'll always have fuel and parts to pay for, but labor is a killer. Might as well keep as much of that in your pocket as you can.
I'm not suggesting you do your own inframe. Just relatively minor things that are common to trucks.Dave_in_AZ Thanks this. -
Oh I'll do minor stuff, lights, fuel filter, grease job, stuff like that, but pretty much anything beyond that goes to my mechanic.
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I let speedco do initial oilchange pm then if needed a grease job. To me if I buy grease tubes and waste time on all the zerks it only cost me the cost of my be two subway visits a month. I can manage that I watch the speedco guys like a soaring hulk. Lights,filters,maintenance sure I have tools and I’ll turn them it depends but like I said most jobs aren’t worth the headache so I’ll take my girl to the shop and let them service her. There’s no to much saving money in this business. I’ll sit in my truck and listen to the xm and relax. I look over my truck crawl underneath it on weekends. I have the same set of 24.5 11r on for over 3years now still plenty of thread left.
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