Lease without Purchase?

To be honest, I don't really have any interest at all in purchasing a truck via a lease-op program. I just think I might make better money on the Lease Operator route than I am making as a company driver. The simple reason is because I run a lot of miles. I burn out my 70 pretty much every week, with most of it being driving hours on the road. I think I could clear my fixed costs, and be making bank most of the weeks I run, and I'd have more operational say in how I do things than I have now.

However, I doubt I'd want the truck anymore after I'd been hard running it for 3 or 4 years. I'd rather just pass that problem on to someone else, especially if it can lower my monthly payments. Also I want to be able to walk away from it after not more than a couple of years, when I've made enough money to reasonably buy myself a truck I actually own (preferably an older, mechanical one that I never try to run in California.)

So who offers lease and not purchase? Does anyone offer this, and also let you pick your loads off of a load board? If I can meet those two criteria, and (hopefully) get freight going to Oregon sometimes, I think I'll be set up well.

 

What company is this? I'd love to do just a 6 mo lease.

 

Of course I don,t have it all figured out, but a person has got to have at least a basic plan.

 

That makes sense. For a lease, go new, so there's a warranty (and hopefully it will actually pay out sometimes). To own, I'd want to go old, because the emissions trucks just seem to wear out too fast.


Besides a newer truck likely get better mpg.