Considering Greatwide....comments?

You need to go to the OOIDA website and read the information on the case against CRE and escrow funds. Short story is they can't keep these funds if you terminate correctly. And make sure you are watching as they inspect the truck and get what they claim needs to be fixed before you walk away.

 

I am not one that is against older trucks in general but you have to be in the postion to afford the repairs. And an '03 Columbia is likely going to be ready for a lot of work. More work than what the truck will be worth.

 

Greatwide ownes Cheetah,Dallas Mavis and ATF. All three have went down hill fast.Cheetah has very few trucks leased on anymore.

 

Greatwide is all owner operator and thus has no units to lease. You are ALWAYS better off buying a truck on your own, if you can. But if you lease a truck, you lease one through Greatwide, and not from them. You will actually lease the truck from a division of ATBS, called Leasco. Once they get you set up, you are strictly an owner operator to Greatwide. They do not and can not tell a difference between you and someone who brings their own truck in. They have absolutely no interest in your truck, the way a company would if they actually owned the truck. Leasco did lease some of Swift's old trucks for a while. I leased one, and it was a former Covenant and SRT truck. It had around 400,000 miles on it, and was a pretty good truck. I sometimes wish I could have continued on as an owner operator with Greatwide, but I had to go back to being a company driver in order to get my wife covered by health insurance. If leasing on to Greatwide, I highly recommend leasing on to the Tyson account. It is by far the biggest and best in Greatwide. Man, I'd be making a killing on fuel surcharge right now!

 

Greatwide is not all o/o.. Has trucks in in several walmart dcs as we speak. They also have several companys that they own that only run company trucks.

 

Its in the contract that they are a bh company...

 

You've been driving 3 years? You haven't saved enough to put down on a nice new truck. That means one of two things and I'm just going to be blunt and straight fowArd. Either your working for a sorry cheap company and caint believe you stayed there 3 years. Or you don't know how to manage money and buying a truck would be the worst thing you could do. Just point blank. These programs are for the company. Not the driver. That prime driver talking about a walk away lease lmmfao. You know why the walk away lease? Cause the company don't even own the truck they lease it from lone mountain or cure leasing then lease it to a driver to pay the payments knowing he will never own it cause they don't own it lmao. Do your reaserch. It's not set up to succeed trust me if it was there'd be thousands more owner ops every week from finishing leases lol. Don't be the average driver think man I know you can see the scam lol.

 

This thread is almost 8 years old...

 

I know but I couldn't help adding my two cents for ppl that read it lol