Best lease truck company? 1000 take home

Does the truck matter? You will never do better than a company driver at 0.88/mile...even with the fuel charge on top of that

 

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pretty sure they're messing with you bub

Don't sign another lease for a grand a week you could easily make more than that at any good company as an employee.

 

Seriously?!

I mean REALLY!!!!?

Seriously - Really?!

Please attach the face palm picture, somebody.

 

I am familiar with that feature. I was making a statement as to the likely direction of this thread.

 

I'm more than pretty sure they are messing with you. You can make more money as a company driver with a decent company, if you have experience.

Case in point, I drive a truck owned by a man that has four trucks. He started out leasing a truck with Swift 14 years ago, scraped by to be able to purchase that truck after the lease was done. The thing is, the other three trucks are all still leased to Swift and I JUST DON'T GET IT.

He can't tell me what his cost per mile is for his other trucks. Basically just plug and play, running whatever loads are sent his way. He gets $0.90 a mile and fuel surcharge in this day and age can put you on a terminal diet.

Meanwhile his oldest current truck, the one I drive, is leased on with a company that runs flatbed loads to oil rigs. He switched that truck because it no longer qualifies to run in California. I'm coming up on my one year anniversary in this truck and will have run about 100,000 miles and generated about $230K gross revenue to the truck.

You think you can get anywhere near that amount running solo with any major carrier fleece program? My truck generated more income than his team driven truck.

Read threads in the owner operator forum. Learn. Don't be a businessman that buys a job. Could you lease that truck, pay a good wage to another driver and STILL make a good profit? No, you can't. You've bought a job.

 

If you run your own truck, thats low. If you are talking Lease Purchase, youll be lucky to make that your first couple of years.

 

If you can't make that on a lease purchase then why would anyone want to do a lease purchase?

Jesus people. Lease purchasing a truck is opening a business. The whole point of opening a business is to make more money than you did as an employee. Not less.