Just signed a 5 year scam lease with Trans Am

Should be a requirement of 2 years experience before LEASE is even discussed.

 

I do like that they offer a 6 mo, 1 yr and a 5 year lease option if you don't want to commit long term right off the bat. 75% of their fleet is independent contractors, either O/O or L/O.

I'm dead set on going company out of the gate to get my feet wet and after a while I'll reevaluate and do more research.

I did meet a couple of drivers that went L/O right out of training and did just fine, but they asked the more successful guys how it works and followed it to the T.

 

The bad thing is it only takea a week to go negitive and
some people never recover

 

TA pays a buck a mile he have to drive 141k to make 141k plus pay $1000.00 a week lease and fuel. He didn't net 141k if his income touch 141k it was gross.

 

Right now it's $1.20 a mile with the increase in fuel surcharge. Trans Am has been fairly liberal in passing of their pump discounts to me, and my fuel economy and how I decide how much to put in makes my fuel payments and my surcharge about equal or even favoring the surcharge. The fixed total cost with the optionals included is around $909 for me.

 

SAY WHAT!!! If you didn't have doudts before THAT right there should have sent screaming down the hall!
Did you get to atleast read it? I bet that right above your signature is a few words that says " i have read and understand and have RECIEVED a copy of this contract"
If you haven't gotten a lawyer yet GET ONE NOW!!!!

 

You must've missed the part where his wife's income was listed $100,000

 

this is the same old same old same old same old same old story.

it has gotten old. i used to feel sorry for those who got scammed, but not anymore. with years, nor, decades of information at the fingertips of people, they still line up for this scam, and still wonder why they are getting the shaft.

here's the reason. i will tell you the insiders secret. the reason why you got screwed is because you asked for it. you wanted it. nobody could have talked you out of it, you didn't do your homework and now you screwed yourself and your family.

and you asked for it. you wanted it so bad you signed a contract i bet you never even read the first 2 lines of or took to a lawyer to check in to.

nope. i'm billy bigrigger. where do i sign.

and tomorrow, as the lawyer for the company that screwed you prepares to put a judgement on you that will take decades to pay off, another idiot will happily jump into your seat, and be here crying in about 2 months.

 

Dang dude...

 

Excellent idea in principle...think of all the companies whose L/O programs would suffer so severely that they'd have to shut them down!

Unfortunately, as long as the market is strong for this type of abuse, it will continue to flourish.