OTR jobs with good LP plan

I hate to break it to ya....but your wrong. You can hope and pray, and beleive all you want, your still gonna get F###ed if you go to allot of the companies out here. There is a reason only 2% of new drivers even make it a year, never mind a career out of trucking.....

Your at the right site, and you need to read and LEARN, NOT read and say, oh well i think all 74,000 of you are wrong and im just going to cross my fingers and work hard and those honest people that run XXXXXXX Transport are going to treat me right if i work real hard at it.....


DO NOT LEASE A FREAKIN TRUCK - I dont care how you look at it, who you talk too, its a RIP OFF.

I'm sure your going to ignore the advice and knowlage shared on this site anyway, but at least when you come back crying i can now say "i told you so"



Take it for what its worth....







American Trucker

 

L/O ONLY BENEFIT FOR THE COMPANY NOT THE DRIVER.

 

You still might chk with colonial,the guy I was talking to was a co. driver he didnt own a truck.Most of the advice on here is pretty good but you CAN make a l/p work if you do work hard.Ive leased 4 trks in the last 4 yrs.usexpress had a 1 yr lease that i leased 3 trks thru and did ok made around 50k per yr.but I stayed out alot and worked at it.Its certainly not for every one.Im with act now and they have the best l/p Ive seen so far.Usx quit the 1yr lease and are only leasing 07 frtliners with cat engines.That cat engine is the worst engine ever made so thats why I left.Stay away from that lease.You start with a 5-600k mile century(base model)with an autoshift trans.The fuel milage will kill you to begin with,then youve got maint.issues on the cat and the auto shift that are going to happen to a trk thats probably had 25 drivers thru it in last 5yrs.Yes you get the truck after 2yrs with no buyout but what do you have?A trk that gets 5 maybe 6 mpg,has 900k miles that now needs a inframe(18k$) if it lasted that long.So you dont end up with a trk you can go make a living with period.If I had heard about act 3rys ago,I would have got with them aolt sooner,but thats life.You might just have to drive co. for one more yr and then your options really open up as long as you protect your cdl(no wrecks,tickets,or serious violations)good luck

 

NONE...NADA....ZERO....

 

stick it out if you can till you have 1yr in it will open alot more up to you, there are a whole lot of trucking companys out there not listed on this forum look at your small local news papers talk to drivers from outfits in your area. get more 48 state experiance before buying truck. dont l/p from trucking company work & save money for down payment & working capital, my last truck i found from private party 2 yr old w900 decked out low miles. i got loan from local finance co. wrote it up as a lease with a 5000 buy out it was great wrote off lease payment plus repairs ect,

 

You could also try ats they do l/o and company heared a lot of good things about them

 

Maybe some other drivers could post some things on ats that's recent aswell not from 2008 etc

 

Nobody got anything to say abt ats good or bad lol can't believe that