Leasing a truck

Just got back an email with answers to all the question i came up with over the past week after looking over the lease myself.

One question i asked was about fuel tax being charged. Didn't quite understand that. But i was told,

isnt that double taxation? if i were to buy a case of cigarettes from some state with super low tobacco tax, and take it to a state (in my travels, not to import) with super high taxes, and smoke some there...do i really have to come up with the tax to pay the state even though i did not buy my cigarettes in said state?? Basicly if i bought fuel in one state, and had a 1000 mile load, and 800 of those miles went thru a state with super high fuel tax, swift would tax me for the fuel i burned in that state, even though i paid the tax for said fuel in the state it was purchased in.

i asked about the difference in letters sent to me. one said no truck payment for 8 weeks, and no down payment, but the lease said that both the truck payment and down payment were defferred. i was answered with,

talk about a tiny suprise. I had mentioned the difference in the two items sent to me, and that if a driver was going to lease a $100k truck, and end up paying $160k for it, i would think Swift would throw in the $2500 down payment for free....but yet they're going to charge you for taking the deal and defer the payments. go figure.

and when asked about if swift would just sell me the truck....the response was

didnt expect they would anyway.....

so.....i have come to the conclusion, that even when leaning toward leasing a truck, they STILL couldnt be upfront with me...and it took a couple days of b!tchin' to even get an email with the answers i wanted....i wont be leasing after all.

i will be looking for local work in the indianapolis area, and if i cant find that, getting the F out of this industry. i'd find more help, respect and courtsey being a dishwasher in a fancy country club than i find in this industry.

thank you to all who actually contributed, as for the rest of you..... <flipping you the bird>

 

actually the prostar i was looking at was grey.

 

and i've never had someone use the "i was going to tell you my secret" like a f-kin 2 year old, either.

whats funny, is that you just admited by responding to that post that you really didnt help any. nice job, hero

 

actually, genius, what screws it up for newbies (i still consider myself one even with just over a year under my belt) is that vet drivers who think they cant learn anymore, often judge a driver based on the name on the door. So what do they do? Seldom offer their help when they see that driver struggling with sliding their tandems, flash them over or worse yet....flash a 'thank you' for getting said flash.

the arrogance of the vet drivers thinkin' they can do no wrong is what screws it up. If you filter out all the "help" that wasnt really that helpful, and stack up the posts that really helped, there is plenty of good information off this thread.