Going back to OTR with Schneider Lease Purchase!

Caseyjonea · Dec 16, 2024

plynnjr92 said: ↑

Been a long time since my lease purchase days. Figured I'd drop in to give you guys a status update.
what a wild ride man. Almost 2025 and i just read all 70 pages of this. You don’t understand the significance of testimonies like this. If you can’t make money on a bad week what’s the point. You were going in the red. What ended up happening financially with the lease? Did they come after you in any way? I was considering it at first but after I read this I’m just going to save up for a cheap truck. Good luck to you man. This was entertaining to say the least

Personally I feel I've grown a lot over the past couple years. My family and I are doing better than ever, planning baby #2 later this year.

Professionally, after leaving Schneider I ran OTR with Crete for a couple months out of Salt Lake. Then I applied for and landed an LTL job with Old Dominion Freight Line. As a linehaul driver it's no touch freight, just terminal to terminal and home every night.

I'm taking home significantly more than I ever hoped to with Schneider. So much that it made enough financial sense to sell my house in AZ, move back to CA, and we bought a brand new house last year.

Freight has been slow though, so now I'm running team for OD between OKC and SoCal. Home 2 days a week. Not totally ideal, but the goal is to get into a day cab SoCal-Phoenix run that pays $140k+.

Sometimes I miss doing lease purchase, but now nothing is more important to me than the time I spend with my wife and daughter. Hope everyone here keeps those tires to the pavement, drive safe
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plynnjr92 said: ↑

Been a long time since my lease purchase days. Figured I'd drop in to give you guys a status update.

Personally I feel I've grown a lot over the past couple years. My family and I are doing better than ever, planning baby #2 later this year.

Professionally, after leaving Schneider I ran OTR with Crete for a couple months out of Salt Lake. Then I applied for and landed an LTL job with Old Dominion Freight Line. As a linehaul driver it's no touch freight, just terminal to terminal and home every night.

I'm taking home significantly more than I ever hoped to with Schneider. So much that it made enough financial sense to sell my house in AZ, move back to CA, and we bought a brand new house last year.

Freight has been slow though, so now I'm running team for OD between OKC and SoCal. Home 2 days a week. Not totally ideal, but the goal is to get into a day cab SoCal-Phoenix run that pays $140k+.

Sometimes I miss doing lease purchase, but now nothing is more important to me than the time I spend with my wife and daughter. Hope everyone here keeps those tires to the pavement, drive safe
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Caseyjonea · Dec 16, 2024

what a wild ride man. Almost 2025 and i just read all 70 pages of this. You don’t understand the significance of testimonies like this. If you can’t make money on a bad week what’s the point. You were going in the red. What ended up happening financially with the lease? Did they come after you in any way? I was considering it at first but after I read this I’m just going to save up for a cheap truck. Good luck to you man. This was entertaining to say the least

plynnjr92 · Dec 17, 2024

Caseyjonea said: ↑

what a wild ride man. Almost 2025 and i just read all 70 pages of this. You don’t understand the significance of testimonies like this. If you can’t make money on a bad week what’s the point. You were going in the red. What ended up happening financially with the lease? Did they come after you in any way? I was considering it at first but after I read this I’m just going to save up for a cheap truck. Good luck to you man. This was entertaining to say the least
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Yeah I was a firecracker of raw emotion back then. Kinda wish I had been more level-headed but at least my experience accurately describes the average lease driver's frustration!

So when I turned in the truck back to SFI Phoenix, I flew home to Salt Lake and found another job working for Crete. A couple weeks later SFI sent me a bill for my remaining lease payments, which at that point I was behind on. Think it was about $2100 I needed to pay after my maintenance escrow was factored in. You can pay it all at once or pay it down monthly, and my mom came in clutch to help me pay it off. After that I was done and left Schneider and SFI on "good terms", meaning if I chose to they'd welcome me back.

I wouldn't go back.

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