Watkins Refrigerated (lease purchase)

Well for better or worst I'm going to jump in into a lease phurchase & milege pay not how I wanted to start but I gotta start somewhere. My goal is to get a 2 year truck not quite brand new. Make atleast my company pay consistently and bank the rest. Rebuild my credit then reevaluate my situation. Hey Colt Seavers I may end up running into you ...who knows

 

Yeah you may im about to pull the trigger myself and im not really worried i think if i run and the truck holds up i should be fine. Best of luck to you and ill keep the post coming if i dont run into you in Indiana

 

Did u try this outfit?

 

Are you working for them is so update us

 

I'm still here I made the leap and I'm waiting to hit the bottom so I can start climbing back up. So far the only way to make it here is to keep your overhead as low as possible. Don't walk in here with a new truck payment your'll be in for a rude awaking.

 

What you mean brand new truck payment? Did you not do the lease deal? I was thinking about doing the lease thing until I can save up enough money to get my own truck hopefully withing six mths to a year, but if it's not worth it I'll stay where im at. I live in atlanta area and they offered a local at 68%. To me don't seem as if i could make money doing that unless they have a hell of alot of freight. Then when I look at running regional the pay per mile don't seem as if you can really make it with a lease payment either. That's why I'm reaching out because it's only a hand full of lease situations that really work and was wondering if this one was crack of could a man make it if they worked hard

 

How is are they treating you at watkins

 

Pretty good so far for their slow season if things get better as the freight picks up then this is looking like a solid decision.

 

I'm thinking about doing the atlanta local, do you know anything about it? Just trying to make the right decision before I sign for a lease payment? What do you think my expected net could be each week if I had a lease payment of say $500 a week