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Have you checked out Lone Mountain?

 

call GE Financing in your area.
http://www.gecapital.com/en/

http://www.americas.gecapital.com/financing-solutions/transportation-commercial-trucking

When I called them in Minneapolis, they connected me with www.westbayleasing.com

They are in Minnesota and a nice group to work with. Not sure if they would work with you in Michigan though.

If you contact GE financing in MI, they MIGHT know someone like westbay leasing in your area.

With that said, I was also approved by lone mountain when I bought my truck with west bay. I much preferred working with Westbay as they also financed a trailer for me as well.

If you are going to go o/o, get BOTH. Without the other, the truck is useless.

 

Then I would recommend you go find a guy like the one Windsmith works for.

A small O/O who wants someone to run the truck and make him money.

 

How about Pac Lease or any other dealer full service lease? No full service lease is cheap though.

 

Ok not telling you what you ought to do but you'll find out how expensive this all is, it's not going to be cheap, and personally I don't think the rates are out there to justify it and make any money at all. If you got like $2.50+ a mile to the truck all miles you roll, you might make a go of it. So the question is how are you going to do that? Off loadboards? Well, then the question becomes will there be any money left if you're only running about 12,000-15,000 miles a quarter give or take cause that's about all the miles you will get at rates like that from what I see. Of course there will be a learning curve to even get rates like that and your guess is as good as anyones how long that will take. It's taken me a full year to even approach an average like that. Being leased on somewhere is just another expense that makes you less competitve than the indepedants who can get there cheaper without a cut off the top - not to mention all the idiots out here running for nothing and the business models that "make money" off a $1 a mile. If you've got patience and time, plus funds, I guess, but just know what you're up against. If you want to do this pulling a dry van it will test your patience sure enough. I'm sure flats and reefers are no different regardless what others say about the rates with those being better. Loadboards are a difficult world.

 

okay, well, I still say the rates and freight won't support it