Trans Am Still

Hey don't try tellin me the idea hasn't occurred to all of us.

 

Too soon ?

 

.......I knew it would either be you or Pete! Thinking it and doing it are two different things .....and women might have the same thoughts or worse!

 

Oh I have no doubt...I've had the great fortune of knowing a few of the most evil women of our generation.

 

I have a little different take on this one too .....but I am a very practical person with one priority, my family. Not that you aren't jaso, because I know you have a wife that you are crazy in love with. Leasing a company truck is paying the maintenance, the repairs, the fuel and the cost of the truck for the company....with a chance or opportunity to decide what loads you will and will not take and to make very little more money....maybe. After watching this industry for years, listening to other drivers, reading the economic reports and being a trucking family I guarantee you that there will come a time when that truck requires expensive repairs or freight will slow down or there will be an unexpected family expense. There is a good chance that two of them will happen at once. Even if you are great at putting money aside for emergencies, (and most people aren't), most can not overcome two of those things happening within a short period of time. Many will end up owing the company more money than their normal lease payment....that will be taken out of your family's weekly paycheck at a time when things are already tight....and they will end up having to stay out longer without going home and seeing their spouse and kids. Unless you are one of those folks that can fall in a bucket of manure and come out smelling like a rose, to me leasing a truck from a carrier is not a family friendly idea....not when there are so many good companies out there to choose from as a company driver. We all do what we have to do in this business to make a living for our families and I understand that......but taking a gamble is what you do with your entertainment money not your family income.

 

Do tell?

 

Lol you know... Exes and what not. For me it all boils down to something similar to what Groucho Marx once said...'I refuse to belong to a club that'd have me as a member'.

 

Hahahaha