Current Lease Owners??

I don't recommend the lease if you are just starting with the company. The most important question to ask, "Can you see yourself working with this company for the next 3 years".

 

It's been 3 1/2 yrs since I worked for Knight (as Express), but I remember when the lease program 1st started about 7 yrs ago. Met many lease drivers while on the road, got bumped from loads several times as a co. driver to give my load to them. Also, they started out getting 3 PP's at a time to cherry pick from, and we co. drivers got the left overs! But after about 18 mos of the lease program, I would return to the Knight term in Phx and see a whole line of turned-in lease trucks in the 'prep area' to either re-lease or remove the lease decals and assign to reg. co. drivers. Dont know if it has improved since then, but many complained about being locked in with Knight for maint/insur/etc. and were barely making enuf $ to pay their mo. lease bill/fuel/etc. Heard that it was hard enuf just to make a few bucks let alone an expected typical o/o living...Knight gives the lease driver just enuf to keep them 'hooked'..

 

Owning your own truck (not bought from Knight) may or may not be a plus for you. On one hand, they have less leverage over you and no truck payment to them...but then again, if you leased from Knight, they want their $$ and have to run you to get it...

 

Just remember to sock some $ away during the good times, cause come Jan-Mar it gets lean all across the industry..Good luck. OD

 

i myself have also thought about that Lease program with knight.....but theres another side in me sayin nope wait a few years, maybe another 3-10 yrs.......

are knight trucks lease to own ????....

 

BTW look at the price Knight is asking in the trucking mag classifieds for their used Volvos/Pete's, etc.

Then look at what their lease price is for basically the same trucks (used to be 3-5 YO with 400-600K miles)---what I remember is that the lease trucks ran about $15-20K higher....