Crazy question but worth a shot.

I have never heard of anyone leasing a truck from another owner operator, doesn't sound like any better of an idea than leasing from a company.

 

Some of the l/p companies will lease you a truck with no credit check. CRST I think is one.

 

If you can save up money and make a good down payment, you can get a buy it with payments and own it after 3-4 years and then you will have a worn out truck that you can trade in on a newer truck, There are also lease/purchases that are pretty good, I have been looking at the john Christner Lease Purchase that looks pretty good, they just recently changed it from a straight forward payment to you paying on a sliding scale according to the number of miles that you run in the week. You always have a set amount but then you are charged for the miles driven. Good Luck!

 

DO NOT go into a lease yet. Get money together. Start repairing your credit. You're contemplating going into business. Unless you do it right you will fail.

 

sure i can buy a 25k truck and then lease it to you for only $625 a week for 3 years with only a 5k buy out in the end

 

Ummmmm...ANYBODY stupid enough to get locked into something like that needs to learn simple math. That's about 400% interest or so. That interest rate is a guess but probably close.

 

That's no different than any other lease purchase.

 

i think you missed the unspoken point of my post

and yes that would be $102,500 for a 25k truck, almost enough to buy myself a bran new glider