Big Beautiful Freight Rates Are Increasing

Why limit yourself. Yourself?

be the Next Gen. CR England!

get yourself 150 trucks to start. Go 100% lease. Offer them a $1 buyout at the end of the lease, then right before lease completion starve them out & lease the truck to a new sucker. I’d bet you could have 1,000 trucks running around and be debt free within three years.

 

Look, I get seeing rates climb and wanting to scale fast. We’ve all been there. But building a fleet around trapping drivers in leases they can’t realistically finish isn’t smart. That’s not “savvy business,” that’s predatory leasing, and it’s exactly the kind of thing that gets carriers sued, audited, or shut down.

FMCSA has been cracking down on shady lease‑purchase setups for years. Truth‑in‑Leasing rules are real. If a contract is designed so the driver never has a fair shot at ownership or profit, that’s legal trouble waiting to happen. And in trucking, word spreads fast. Burn drivers and your reputation is done.

Also, cutting maintenance to “save money” is how you end up with a roadside inspection nightmare or worse, a lawsuit after a crash. Trucks aren’t where you gamble.

 

@Mega Express...I hope that after you've made your 1st million you still have time to grace us with your presence here on TTR to update us on your life, where you're vacationing, what you're investing in, throwing us crumbs of what it's like to be at the top of the food chain.

 

Yes, you need multiple numbers and names.
1 for the brokerage
1 for dry box
1 for refrigerated
1 for the flat/step decks
1 for the tankers

Then you will need a couple more companies
( these don’t need numbers)
1 for the finance company
1 for the lease company
1 for the rental company

 

Don't forget to charge the lease drivers for every point they acquire for your company on your CSA compliance. I believe $100 per point, with an additional $500 for each OOS will really help financially.

 

When succeeding is #1, I almost always follow the plan of those who almost succeeded.