Do Company Lease to Own Deals Always Fail?

As an agent for LS, do you own any of your own trucks, or strictly broker? Also do you usually work on a certain percentage, or try to get the freight hauled as cheap as possible, leaving a good driver, but not necessarily a good negotiator, with cheaper paying freight for the same job a fast talking driver would get.

This is not meant as an insult or bash, just a question I always wondered about the many brokers I have worked with in years past. I have worked with a few good ones, and many crooks.

 

if you have a driver that comes in that is a positive, do what needs to be done, doesnt gripe and complain and make your job difficult kinda of driver and then you have a driver comes in that is the exact opposite and you want to hide under your desk who are you going to work harder for? Yes everyone one should be treated and loaded the same but it doesnt work like that. And if you can be bought off with a candy bar or a coke you got some issues.

I ran a very successful security company for years. It is all about customer service and how you treat your contacts or guess what they didnt contact you. Did I drop off goodies every so often and stuff during the holidays, YOU BET YOUR A%^ I did. Is that what got me the next contract NO my work ethic and positive whatever needs to be done attitude did......its all about the relationships (as stated above)

 

We don't currently run our own fleet, but several agents do. As far as money, it all depends what I've got in the load. You can find more discussion about this in the "Are freight brokers necessary thread."

Truthfully, it depends what I've got in the load, but I refuse to lowball someone. I've got bills to meet like everyone else, but we're not out to screw people. I just put two drivers on loads out of Ohio going to FL tonight and made a couple hundred bucks when I could have doubled it brokering. They were brothers and were both trying to get home for Christmas. I can sympathize and gave them both loads and didn't even bother posting them on the boards.

 

Thanks for an honest answer. There should be more agents and brokers that feel as you do.

 

you hear these guys say it cant and wont happen well pinch me i must be the only 1 I ran a lease purchase for years and i didnt have a problem I went to freightliner with 30,000$ CASH MONEY and they told me I couldnt buy a truck since i was a 1st time buyer with little credit not bad credit but no credit since i refuse to have credits cards because they got me in trouble when i was in the military. Anyway my company came to me and told me about a new deal I put 10,000$ down and ordered a brand new truck i paid 704$ a week for 3 years had a 0 balloon payment and truck was paid for i have had the truck since 06 and Its still running. When I did the numbers it came out better to do it thru my company than Freightliner. So to the NAYSAYERS it can happen its all about the driver.

 

Some of the shippers are biased where I load from. they almost never make fair choices.I also have to admit, I have to learn to keep quiet. have not learned to do so yet. if my dispatcher, or my dedicated shipper tells me something & I see otherwise, I cannot help myself to mention that fact. now I don't mind if they make a unfair choice & they let me know, but don't tell me you only had 3 loads going out today & therefore do not have one for me, when I am sitting in my truck just a few hundred ft from the plant & see 7 loads going out. then when I question... I thought you only had 3 loads? 7 trucks just left the plant? then they get mad & ask how I knew? all the other drivers deal with this too, but I am the only one who questions it. WHY LIE?

I have had one dispatcher who would tell me, I have a guy who will take any load any where any time & that driver never refuses to help me out, so I give him & hold loads for him going to his area for him. any steel loads going into north oh, the one driver would get. I was fine with that. made sense to me & I was told upfront. I really don't mind being treated unfair, just tell the truth, you just like someone better, known longer, whatever. just can't take the lie without responding.