Do not lease with trans am....please

This is what it's like to lease to 90% of the companies that hire O/O's and lease them trucks. Just replace "Trans Am" with any name from a Mega-Carrier.

Man, I'm sorry, I'm feeling your pain. Mostly because I've been there, just like all of us- it's just paying your dues, this is where you have to open the can of Whoopass and take a big swig. Tomorrow is a new day, another load, another paycheck, another week, month- before you know it, you'll outlast the bad circumstances and get through it all. Someday that truck will be paid. Years from now you'll be glad you toughed it out.

Or, you'll be glad you quit.

 

Leasing a truck is not a good idea to begin with, leasing one right out of school with no experience is crazy.

 

Sorry your having a hard time with trans-am, but every company that leases, will have someone saying, you cant make it at ??????, and some say you can make it at ??????, personally, when your a rookie driver, not saying you are, just going by the years trucking you put on your info, but when new to this industry, you should drive company for at least a couple of years before changing to the O/O side, being a O/O is running your own buisness, not just driving the truck and waitting for someone else to do everything else, good luck in your next adventure

 

my thoughts exactly!!

 

60,000mi and their charging you for parts?? Truck is under warranty isn't it?? That sounds like trans am is committing fraud.

 

I have to agree.Leasing a truck in and of itself is crazy.Leasing right out of school with no idea of the business crazier.

 

im a noob and still wouldnt lease a truck better off just going to an international dealer and financing a 60k truck as opposed to the same truck for 550 a wk

 

Reading this fellow newbies cry in the dark makes me cringe. I could not even imagine being a lease operator right after company orientation & the subsequent "training." But what I can imagine is knowing better -before- the situation were to get so bad that I would lose my apartment, waistline, & possibly my life due to a companies bottom line & a drivers own foolishness because i just read Don Lapre's biography.

Speaking of cringing, foolishness and another victim of his own stupidity, Don Lapre commited suicide last night while in federal custody awaiting trial. Many "truckers may not know who Lapre was because they were most likely driving late at night in the mid nineties or two young to read but he was a man self determined to make it & fail all at the same time. .

Don started this road to complete ruin with a credit repair business called Unknown Concepts that in turn sold thousands of products yet offered clients no real solution for their problem in 1990. Lapre went to to develop and market products such as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and the "Making Money Package"( all ventures also peaked the interest of the FBI).

Even though Lapre was constantly criticized for selling bunk vitamins & questionable business plans that often did not work for his clients he solidered on and devised, developed, and once again marketed CMR 9000 and Web Freedom which for a $295 payment students would revisit internet and direct marketing stratagies which included the "tiny classified ads" method Lapre style.

In June 2011, Lapre was charged with 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and promotional money laundering related to his Internet businesses and.direct involvement with the miracle products such as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and the "Making Money Package".

Don's take on the entire process in a nut shell, "I did not have the perfect company, but never once did I allow one thing to be done that would violate any law", he wrote on donlapre.com. "Nevertheless, because the majority of people did not make money ... I am left to fight a battle that will for sure destroy what energy I have left inside." And it sure did. Why, because of his own foolishness.

What do you ask does the story about a dead and gone TV pitchman/ripoff artist have to do with trucking? Well, the answer is simple. If you are doing something and red flags pop up all over the place that you are doing the wrong thing it is best to heed those alerts instead of discounting them, then re-access the present situation, and make positive changes in your life so that you do not end up having to slit your own throat in a jail cell and bleed your life blood all over the floor.

Therefore, if Trans Am leasing has you at the end of your rope with no money in your pocket then it is high time to wait out the terms of your lease, quit the company, start somewhere new (after much research), and never ever make that horrible decesion again. Otherwise, if you contuine making the same mistakes over and over again it wont be pretty when it ends.

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2011/10/04/20111004phoenix-lapre-dies-prison.html

 

I lease a truck through trans am and make decent money($900 week), i only go home every 8 weeks though for 3 days, any more then that i would not make money, any thing i can do to help?