Central Refrigerated Truck Stop III

There is an easily measured advantage for a company to have lease ops pulling their freight:

Look at the following situations and tell me if a company driver would handle it the same as a lease op:

1) It's a hot day and the pavement is hot and sticky. A company driver and a lease op both pull up in loaded trailers. Which driver is more likely to drive around the block and come in from the other side, rather than back at a severe angle, corkscrewing the tires and risking pulling tires off the rim?

2) The temp guage starts to rise into dangerous levels. Which driver is more likely to pull over and deal with the situation, even if it means losing time and (in the short term) money? Which driver is more likely to push on, ignoring the light (and then the buzzer).

These are just two of many examples where a lease op has a hundred thousand dollars at stake, and may react differently than a company driver.

Let me assure you, Central has the numbers. They know how many miles a clutch will last on a company truck vs. how long a clutch will last on a Lease Operator's truck. They know how long a set of brakes will last on a company truck vs. a Lease Operator's truck.

The question is, are they willing to pay you enough more to make it worth it for you to be a lease operator?

 

i can answer this question as a lease op. No swift pays dirt. I get 1.75 a mile.this week has been bad. Dm is very uncommumicative my last load with the trailer repairs. And this camble soup load might have me sitting for the weekend. I stand to make out to 18 dollars for this week after taxes. Fo the guy asking about being a lease op. Can you manage a buisiness? If yes then save up 15 grand and put that money down on a truck at a dealer. That is exactly what I should have done in the first place. I have luckily 56grand saved still question I am asking myself is why did i let someon3 talk me into this lease. Here in 3 weeks im saying goodbye swiftrall while i still have money!!

 

I think you mean 1.075. At 1.75 you may actually be making money. I keep getting messages on the QC urging to lease, looks like they bumped the pay up to 1.075 from 1.05, as if the two and a half cents would really make any difference in the negative paychecks you'd be receiving leasing from these crooks.

 

No my rate is 1.75 dont ask why thats the way it shows up on my settlements page. I can make money with this lease if i wasnt sitting so much waiting to reload. The load im on now goes from paris tx to denver co. Its a cambles soup load and they wont let me drop it even though i will be in denver today. It delivers monday the 7 at 0700. I picked it up thursday. Had to get the load reworked due to being overweight. I will be in denver today at 6pm sharp. The response i got on the qualcomm was the customer is requesting that the load not be dropped so now i have to sit all day tomorrow. Ugh im so ########.

 

Ugh i know what im going to do im going to get it to the denver swift yard put a copy of the billa in the box and drop it. What are they gonna do be ticked at me.

 

your prob the highest paid lease op with the company. and you only got a year experience. lucky lease op you are.

 

I didn't know l/o's were paid by the hour.

 

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If you thought/think you were getting $1.75/mile, best have someone else count that $56K you think you have. It probably is $5600, spelling is not one of your strengths also.

 

correction my rate is 1.075. A few settlements ago for a 2800mile trip its showing 1.75, must be an error. I got the soup load to denver yesterday then they had me drop it anyways to bobtail to kansas for a multistop meat load:/. Does anyone else have problems with the denver yard? I had to move 4 trailers so i could park my one. Maybe its just the holiday weekend.