Another Trans Am disaster

I mean the industry is only about 2% profit margin on average. Drivers who can even gross that kind of money are only getting a decent take home wage because their overhead is low and they perform much of their own maintenance and OWN their trucks outright. And yeah fuel is huge. One of those if it sounds too good to be true...

 

Why rent a truck and worry about rising fuel costs, insurance, taxes, etc. when you could let a company pay you to drive one of theirs ? I'm not saying lease purchases are all a racket, I know drivers who have made it work. But they started with a big pile of money they had built up, and had spent some years in the business driving other people's trucks.

 

Get out there and see the world a bit on someone else's dime. Decide what you really like to drive. I find that the more interesting work for me has been stuff that I couldn't have done right out of school anyways. Tankers pay great ! Haul some steel on flatbed. That's one I haven't done (yet). Specialization (in your driving job, not in life in a broader sense) is where real money is at ! Boxes can pay good but the ceiling on that is much lower in a lot of cases.

 

Learn early on (which it seems you have) that trucking companies tend to lie ! Or at least they lead you to believe that their top earners figures are such that there's enough of that to go around the whole company. There's not! A few get the good stuff and the rest gets distributed in some manner that leaves some without enough miles. But I digress......

 

Something isn't kosher with this story. Sounds like the driver agreed to do a lease before being trained and when training was over and he saw the truck he was getting, had a change of heart.
I could be wrong but until he tells the full story of what happened, that's how it looks.

 

Kinda off topic but have you heard the Prime guarantee?


$102,000 for every hundred thousand miles traveled. So if your not making at least $1.02 a mile after you stick it out for nine months give or take they will give you the balance.

OP why were you even looking to see what they offered? Take this as a life lesson.

Sheesh I'll bet in about ninety days they would had him training because that makes a lease profitable

 

Well said, It happened to me also I was in Jackson, MS, some things were not adding up decided to go home and sign on with a different company. Bought myself a train ticket home, I was not gonna take the bus, I got one of those small rooms that has a big chair that folds out to a single bed, snack car and dinning car was not a bad way to travel all thing considered. I have said that on here many times, have some money to get home in case the ####e hits the fan. To the OP it is probablly for the better someone else will hire you, try to find one that won't push lease purchase so much.

 

Now what ???

You need a Real game plan !!!