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Hello JCTruckIns and Welcome to the Site

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Best of Luck!!!

 

Hi JCTruckIns! Welcome to the Forum! Glad you found us Good luck with the new career if you choose to do the lease thing. I know a bit about both ends here, hubby is a lease operator and my father is an insurance salesman lol. and oh yeah lol as a truckers wife i have heard of Monteagle before! Lookin forward to gettin to know you more on the boards! Again welcome!

 

JC,

Welcome to the forum. I am KH, a greeter. To begin, please consider the chances of a newbie of succeeding in a lease is slim to none. Most lease companies will screw you to death. Some are very luck and do not. Please check out these sections on here:

Owner Operator's Getaway:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/the-owner-operators-getaway/

Question From New Drivers:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/questions-from-new-drivers/

Experienced Truckers Advice:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/experienced-truckers-advice/

A Discussion About Everything:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/a-discussion-about-everything/

If you decide to go o/o immediately, please consider that only a few let you do this. Trans Am and CRE are two I know. Even companies such as US Xpress and Swift require 6 months experience. Remember if you lease from a company, they CONTROL EVERYTHING. Consider going through Lone Mountain Truck as you only need to put down $3200-4200 down payment and need other documents. Members Medicineman, and Tankergal went through them. I would pm Medicineman as he got his 04' Columbia through them and can explain what is needed etc..... Good luck and welcome aboard. Remember help is only one click away on this networking site.

KH

 

Welcome and to be honest you can gain plenty of info on here.

 

Good Luck!!! Glad you have already found a lot of useful information. Good that you are looking into all aspects of the purchase before doing it. And finding out from the operators point of view before doing so. I tell ya what though. I might be steered more towards leasing your truck onto a flat bed / heavy haul company though. the loads pay a bit more so you will have more income to pay your out of pocket expenses, make money yourself and still be able to pay your driver enough to pay his bills and feed his family.