Alliance, Alliance, Alliance...QUESTION

What is the cost for an Alliance tractor lease?

What are the estimated fixed costs above the tractor lease payment?

 

It can vary quite a bit depending on the truck you want.

 

Wrong question.
What you should be asking is "How much money can I make as an Alliance driver?"
What it costs is immaterial. How much you make is what's important.

 

Well, it's not the wrong question for me. It's the first question. Without knowing costs, I cannot estimate or even begin to figure "how much you make." "How much money can I make as an Alliance driver" is the end, not the beginning.

 

A tractor with 300,000 miles will cost 530 per week for a KW. Apu is 35 per week. Insurances and fees about 200 per week. A pete will cost more as will a lower milage tractor.

Then you have an escrow account for maintenance that is yours but stevens determines the cents per mile that goes into the account. Mine is 4.5 cents per mile. Then there is 1.5 cents per mile lease payment.

Hope that helps

 

TLeaHeart is that 530 + + + + or was the 530 after the "fixed cost added"

 

That would be just the truck lease price every week, EVERYTHING else is extra ++++++++!!!

 

By the time you put insurance, maintenance, etc onto the payment, you can figure about $900 per week.
If you ran an average of 2700 miles per week (not hard to do) with 6% being deadhead miles, you will gross about $3,620.00.
Fuel at 3.90/gal and 6.5mpg will run you about $1,680.
This gives you a pretax weekly profit of $1,040.00
If you increase your mileage to 6.75mpg, that will increase your gross profit by $62.00.
What my first post was trying to say was the lease cost is insignificant if the gross is right.
Your net income can swing more than 10% just on mileage figures alone.
Some companies pay more per mile, but you get less miles. Some pay less per mile.
The real question is: How much can I net?

 

Where people are thinking wrong is by saying mileage, mileage, mileage. The #1 thing in Alliance is reputation. If you treat your DM, the dispatchers, and planners like they're human beings instead of slaves that are there to serve you and only you, you make your deliveries on time, and you show that you are able and willing to do what they need you to do, the miles will flow like water out of a faucet. Start treating them like crap, rejecting loads, and accruing service failures, and watch that faucet turn off really fast.

Going into Alliance is so much more than getting freedoms and a truck payment. You really have to think about this business in a whole different way. That is one of the main reasons why I believe that waiting a certain amount of time before coming to Alliance is irrelevant. If you are truly going to succeed, you can't think like a company driver anyways. Why learn one way to do it only to turn around and learn a completely different way when you could learn the Alliance way pretty much from the get-go?

As far as payments are concerned; I have a 2011 KW T660 with +/-184k on the clock. It costs me $570 a week in truck payment. Last week I spent $1514.50 in fuel driving 3182 miles. My mpg's are around 6.7. That number could be way higher, but Most of my loads last week were "hot shot" loads that were repowered to me the night before the delivery date and required me to ride the speed governor...plus 55mph is very slow to me (that is the #1 place that I lack discipline.) I have never gone more than 6 hours without a load (usually I have a pre-plan the day before I deliver) unless I am on a 34...and even then, they usually pre-plan me. The main reason this happens is because I don't rely solely on my DM to get me loads. I email the regional dispatcher directly the night before my delivery to let them know that I am going to be in their area, and that I am able and willing to do anything that they need me to. Even if that means going across the street to grab a trailer and take it somewhere 5 miles down the road. I do it because, while it might not be the best load, next time they will give me the awesome load...and that leads me back to reputation.

Sorry for the wall o' text. If you have any questions, hit me up!!

 

$530 then added costs listed, runs about 850 to 900 per week before fuel.