Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Did a little research on this, and I think I've found what your lawyer is doing. If a corporation spins off a smaller company, any assets assigned to the spin-off have their bases reset so the spin-off company gets to depreciate them all over again -- and at the current market value.

However, I can't see where 7 years comes in -- residential rental property has a 27.5-year schedule. Commercial rental property has a 39-year schedule.

I suppose if the property appreciated considerably, it may be worthwhile to spin off the asset to claim a little extra depreciation, but you'd need to be a pretty big player to make it worth the fees & taxes of starting another company.

Forgot to add Fleet One set-up fee: $50 (one time cost)

 

Hard to say without more info. In general, the 13 will give you more options for cruising at an ideal rpm. Likewise more opportunities to stay in the power climbing up hill, and more opportunity to stay on strong engine braking going downhill.

The downside is more upfront cost, a less robust transmission, & slightly more weight.

If you have a 10, I wouldn't swap in a 13 unless your 10 needed to be rebuilt and you had a good deal on a 13...

 

I don't mean capacity to handle torque (13's can be specified to take more torque than 10's), but rather their more frequent & costly repairs/maintenance, particularly when driven by less capable operators.

Anecdotally, talking to the shop guys at Con-Way Truckload. CWTL used to have a pretty experienced workforce but, like most larger carriers, they began gearing their operation towards cheaper "student" drivers over the past 10 years.

An unfortunate byproduct was they moved away from (manual) 13 speeds because the new drivers tended to break them -- something they didn't do as often with 9 & 10 speeds.