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Yeah I've heard those electric apu units are junk. These new Mack's we are getting have them. I would rather have a tried and trusted diesel powered unit.

 

The landstar load board shows gross pay. The driver gets 65 percent of gross pulling company van.

Glad you got out of that lease. Your new plan sounds better.

 

I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. But to be fair, an exhaust pipe can fail at a moments notice. If it was on top of the trans, a routine inspection would not have included removing it just to see if it was OK. Not resolving the white stuff on the dipstick was not wise. That was a BIG RED FLASHING WARNING LIGHT telling you to stop.

And to be fair to you, getting in a strange truck, you likely would not have heard an exhaust leak especially if it was just starting.

Like I said earlier, to think one would not use the entire maintenance account on a used truck is just dreaming. I've owned my teuck since new and use the B.O.A.T. principle when it comes to maintenance.

Bet On Another Thousand.

 

With the price of new trucks and the complicated, costly emissions systems, I think I would opt for an older truck with no dpf, scr or egr. New trucks require def and have higher insurance costs.

And older trucks cost you less when taking time off. Lower payments .

I bought my truck new. It now has 1.1 million miles. Dependable. Runs like new. New trucks are over rated. I've owned 2 new ones.

If I buy a new truck, I will most likely buy a glider. I see Freightliner gliders advertised for about $ 116 000..

I can easily afford any new truck, but I am avoiding the new emissions as long as possible.

 

Knight Rider, I see you live in CA so an old truck won't work you. You need the dpf. Oh well.

 

This illustrates a severe handicap of SNI's Choice program for contractors. Dry van rates have been way over the top in many markets for over 10 weeks now. With the choice program the rate is posted on the load and that's it, take it or leave it... There is no negotiating whatsoever with the big orange borg. Of course when the choice drivers choose not to haul any of that stuff and if SNI can't cover it with company trucks then it goes out to the open market where it's either snatched up for nothing by some idiot or SNI gets bent over a barrel and it pays either a fair or possibly a fantastic rate. Self dispatch is only good if you are setting the rates. Choice program is an illusion of freedom and SNI sets the rate on every single load it's contractors roll for. It's a great system to control costs and keep a lid on rates for good customers - from the normal occasional wild upswings of an open market but really that doesn't benefit it's contracted drivers at all.

 

Go back over your numbers....after 52 week the residual is $119,557 on a 2014 Cascadia....$64000 after 156 weeks (3 years)....

 

Just goes to show what a sham they are running. By law they must show you the freight bill since they're paying %age. I would never lease on to a company who broke the law and had things to lie about and hide.

I hauled 2 loads of paper rolls down south this past week. One paid $1,350 gross on 302 loaded miles and the second one paid $3,300 gross on 923 loaded miles. You see when you leverage your truck correctly roll stock does not have to be cheap. many times during the year it is and will move for half that rate or much worse. But with SNI you just accept their rate, which of course everyone "knows that roll stock is cheap"... ...yep, if you allow it to be and if they are hiding something from you.