Considering a lease purchase with Comtrak or Roadlink for local work, any advice?

My buddy did run hard but he had a goal and he met it. Took loads that others that were sitting around wouldnt take. He said he would see the same guys over and over again sitting around complaining about not making money and refusing loads.

 

out here on the west coast o/o are working 6 days a week for 1500.00 at comtrak

 

familyman, yes you can pm me,i'll give you any info i can. i'll be around most of the day

 

Depends on the area also.....I imagine the ATL area is pretty good....

 

Familyman, sorry i couldn't pm you back but my answer to you is as follows.

I personally believe it was just the times when i was with roadlink,it was just after everybody got hit hard with the so called recession. The people at roadlink charlotte were great,it just was not a good time for many people. I think you can make a good go at it or I wouldn't be ready to do it myself. i didn't even know roadlink was doing a lease purchase. If its actually buying the truck from them it still would worry me as i've been stung in a similar situation. not saying you will be. The reason I'm going with First Coast is that I'm actually buying from from a dealer who will be doing most of the maint. I feel that at this time you can make it with your plan as long as you have a good maint. plan set up. I don't know whether roadlink has it set up to take a percent per mile and put in a maint. acct or you do this on your own,as i said I don't know how they are doing things.
The way its set up at First Coast is 9.5 cents per mile gets put in an acct in your name to maintain truck,if anything is left when truck is paid off or you decide to walk away for whatever reason,the balance goes back to you. I've run the numbers backwards and forwards and they work and you can bring home $1000 plus,depending on how you run. Thats on the low side. I'm sure Roadlink has similar numbers. with a good work ethic,no reason why it won't work,depending on how lease purchase is set up.

 

I have not posted enough to PM i guess,lol

 

not sure out of Atlanta as i will be out of Charlotte but am told that they have a lot of drivers home every night. they do seem to have alot of dedicated runs as in terminal to port and back. I'm looking at running back and forth to jacksonville port. they are needing drivers for this in my area as most drivers here want to be home every night. i don't mind a few nights out so this works for me and i will be able to get home a couple nights and every weekend or run all week,up to me. all the drivers i've talked to seem happy here.

 

I am Leases on to Comtrak,

My dispatch is in Indianapolis but I work out of Chicago, as my starting point, ( Comtrak McCook IL. )

I am there long-haul guy I do a lot of other specialty loads, if am not doing that, I am in route to Kentucky from Chicago drop a load some where in Kentucky and Handback to the rails in Chicago or to Comtrak yard. About 623 to 690 miles a day.

If you do local work with multiple drops it pays 50 dollars per drop plus miles

Comtrak is own by Hub Group they are the biggest Inter modal transportation carrier. Contrak can only hul about two thirds of all the freight, the rest of it is farmed out. They are that busy.

a bonus every quarter average out to be (600+ safety bonus), if you get pulled over by DOT another 300 dollars if you pass that. If you don't pass the DOT inspection on the road you just lost your safety bonus for the quarter and then Contrak going to make you do an inspection every month on your truck for three months. ( Comtrak pays For all inspections, done every quarter but, if you don't pass or get Inspected by DOT on the road for some trouble with the Safety manager and these guys and women they pull no punches they will put you out of service they have all the power.

I make between 1900 $2700 about four days of work after all expenses, I do own my own plates and I own my truck.

if you need any more infomation on Comtrak, just let me know