usa Lease-op

Yea, you can make a lot of money.
That's what you want to hear.
Just grab a truck and go for it.
We don't need to know how it works out.
We already know how it's gonna end.

 

Whether you make money or not depends on your business skill ... Skill you don't have.

If you had that skill you wouldn't be asking these questions. Your business model would give you the answers you want.

 

Op, you are not asking nearly enough questions. From what I gathered you don't have any otr experience so why would you put yourself on the hook for a truck when you don't even know if you like it or not? Next why do you want to be a lease-op? It really doesn't seem like this is something you have thought about before today.
As for lease purchase. How many lease purchase Celedon/Hyndman lease purchase ops just had their nearly paid off trucks repo'd. There is a lady that was 2 or 3 payments away from finishing her lease purchase and lost her truck in that deal. When push comes to shove until that title is in your name and in your hands that truck is collateral for the company to are leasing it from.
So if your only reason for wanting to lease a truck is all the bags of money your going to collect ask yourself why would this company be passing this opportunity onto me, after all they already have the truck.

 

I'm sorry but you don't have enough info. You didn't even have the answer to what they will pay you let alone what expenses you will be responsible for beyond the weekly $900 payment!! Being a hustler has nothing to do with being OTR. Can you handle being away from momma or daddy (whichever is your preference) for weeks on end and still be 1000 miles away from them over and over again for 5 years? Would it not make more sense to figure that out when someone else is paying the expense and use that time to figure out the business end of operating a truck? Again what is you reason for wanting to lease a truck? If it's money your going to be disappointed. If it's freedom your going to be disappointed.

 

Could you explain this?

 

You're asking the wrong people the wrong questions.

Ask the carrier what they pay for, what they deduct, and what you'll have to get on your own. Ask them how they pay and what they pay. Figure on making 80% of what they tell you you'll make (they're always going to tell you best case scenario, 80% may even be optimistic) and then with all of that information, ask yourself what you can afford and what you can't.