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very interesting read, glad your doing your home work, been doing hte same ting myslef. in anser your question abot trucks. one that has been maintained. i personally would stay away from the maxfarce motor(the cummins powered trashionals aint bad)

 

Luck has very little to do with it ... It has to do with business skills. Everyone I've met, who is in a lease and have a solid understanding of all facets of running a business, are successful.

On the other hand, those that I have met who are failing, either have a complete lack of understanding or don't grasp all the aspects of what is necessary. Unfortunately, that is the vast majority of people that I run into, that are leasing.

 

it's not impossible to make leasing a truck work, plenty of people do it profitably. You guys make it sound like signing that paperwork will be the end of your life.
Is it worth it to make an extra 5-10 grand a year if everything goes 100% perfectly? No, but some will try and that's their choice.
Perhaps his long term goal is to own a micro-fleet. You cant say leasing isn't a fairly low risk way to get your feet wet.

 

Get a load back home for time off:
Deliver the load and get empty:
Drive back to yard and clean out truck:
Walk in office and turn keys and permit book in:
Go get a real job:

If they even bother to ask why your leaving and
You tell them you're not making enough money
To justify being away from home,don't let them bribe
You with one or two good weeks of running hard.

It will only go back to the way it was before in
A short amount of time.
And no don't say a word to anyone in the office
Until your at the terminal turning everything in.

 

i think those guys got where they are with absolute pure hard work. Plus it didn't hurt that during their time starting out, the rules could be bent way past broken such that one driver was basically earning two drivers' income. The way it is now, you go 15 minutes over they want to put you in a gas chamber strapped into an burning electric chair hanging by a rope around your neck in front of a firing squad.

 

You can get treated well and get paid well.
But if your happy with 30 grand a year to live
On the road than more power to you.
You can find something at home and make that,
Unless your like a few drivers I know who can't
Handle being around thier wives that long.