Just signed a 5 year scam lease with Trans Am

It's called sarcasim. After all these years of reading about drivers falling for a recruiters line of #########, there's really no other way to explain it to someone. There is no way on this earth anyone should get into this situation, especially if they have zero knowledge of this industry.
un-effing believable this stupidity exists today. People come here complaining and crying for help after the fact. Come on, simply put it's called doing your due diligence. I did it 12 years ago when I started my car business, built it up from scratch then sold it 3 years ago in the high six figures, after spending 6 months with forensic accountants from both sides going over the books, all the while still driving a truck.

The simplest thing someone can do is bring the paperwork to an Attorney to look over. I guarantee you it wouldn't have cost $10,000.

 

Skibum, that's a PT Barney quote if I recall correctly.
So what's wrong with a purple truck? I'm lost.

 

I'd take a hot pink truck before I'd lease.

 

There are so many crooks in this business.

I don't trust anyone.

 

WOULDN'T GIVE YOU COPY OF LEASE????.... i would have told them to pound sand & stick that lease where the sun don't shine!

 

Go talk to an attorney - NOW!! What they are doing is IMO illegal, especially not providing you with a copy of the lease. You need to get out of this mess, but you don't want to dig the hole any deeper. That is why you must seek real legal advice before it gets any worse.

 

This is what kills me on these lease scams. Why won't these companies put these promises in writing?

They have no intention of honoring this stuff. Talk is cheap. If thy won't write it into the contract, it ain't worth a crap.

It's been said many times. These lease scams are written to benefit the company, not the driver.

This business is full of crooks. Don't be a victim.

 

You can't guarantee anything in a contact, especially things such as "miles". There are too many variables on both sides. A company would be a fool to guarantee miles in a questionable economy with drivers of questionable performance standards, and if there were such a minimum miles guarantee, there would be so much "non performance fine print" language that a driver would be a fool to think there was not an easy out on the carrier's side to declare the driver did not "perform" according to the contract and thus can declare the driver was in breach of contract.

 

As drvrtech and ironpony said HUH??? No copy of the lease????
How can you prove it's ''your'' truck?
How can you walk away from a finacial deal with NO PAPERWORK????

I think you need to stand your ground with the company and get legal advise that the company is NOT following through with their ''end'' of the deal. I can't imagine if you leased a car or furnature or an apartment and NOT signing a TON of paperwork and then getting copies of it all!!

IT'S A LEGAL DOCUMENT AND THE COMPANY IS WITHHOLDING IT FROM YOU!!!!!
Call TransAms legal department!!