American Truck Showrooms Experience Anyone?

Search the forum, don't think there has been much good posted about them
Plus a Google search.. better off with a bank loan

 

There was this thread at https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/anyone-dealt-with-ats-lease.416746/ just a few weeks ago on them with some lings to other threads on it.

 

No problem, best of luck

 

run not walk in the opposite direction. I dug up lots of bad stuff when I was researching.

 

American Truck Showrooms is a bad choice, stay away form these guys you do not want to tangle with them

 

Its a rental agreement in which you put thousands of dollars down and must maintain their truck. Any and all guarantees are subject to your ability to sue in trying to enforce them or your ability to sit and make nothing while truck sits waiting for warranty work in their shop. Sales meetings revolve around incoming repos that fresh prospects can be offered. Don't be fooled by flashy soundbites and terms that intentionally mix different types of transactions within the same lines of an ad to fool you into thinking they relate to buying, not renting, the truck. The "guaranteed approval" fee in the hundreds of dollars doesn't mean the approval is one you can afford or comply with, it simply means they won't refund the fee because after all, you are "approved" ... any payment quoted before hand is hugely inflated when you go to sign paperwork by a list of add on fees collected monthly as well. Some carriers will not lease on trucks from this dealer. There is strong suspicion they wash Canadian titles of late model, high mile units they buy cheap and then swap clusters/flash ecms so as to present the units with far less than actual miles, because after all, miles are exempt in the first place for class 8 titles. Routinely sell trucks with known operational issues, use cut n paste ad language for every truck implying they all have had identical service when they have not. High employee turn over, they rip off their own people by altering shop time cards to delete overtime and by changing bonus plans at the end of the month to avoid paying out the goals reached. Crooks who pray on the those willing to believe and able to wire in $$$.

 

NEVER EVER EVER EVER do business with them. I had a truck a buddy leased from them. I took it over because he was turning it in. If I had a load that paid 2500, without fail the truck would require half in repairs. It would randomly not start, usually at the fuel island or shipper. It never passed a shop it didn't want to go to. Payments of 500 or more a week are the norm, and all trucks are junk. I met a few others with similar problems. They look nice, but are ragged. It was an 05 Pete, and would have cost over 150k if went to term. He was insane for doing it, and I only took it to get recent otr for insurance. Couple months of payments and repairs almost broke me. This was in 2013.