Sammons Trucking Lease purchase????
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snowwy said: ↑vangtransport said: ↑if you had your own authority. would you ask the boker to pay for that spit on your stamp? your not a company man. your a business man. if you don't want to pay for spit. then don't spit. plain and simple as that.\
have your own authority. you pay for EVERYTHING. running under sammons, landstar, mercer. is no different.Click to expand...
lol. Obviously you missed the point. I never said Sammons collecting for everything was a bad thing, NEVER!! In fact, I think it's great they collect everything that's due. I'm saying as a "Business Man", I expect the same!! If you are all for someone running up your tab, intentionally or not, increasing the amount of interest paid, & extending the time spent paying down your truck, good for you. I'm not ok with it, especially when it's not written in my contract that way. I'll paraphrase it for you; "Lessee at it's sole expense, shall keep the equipment in good repair and operating condition......... It is further agreed that ordinary and practical expenses.......will be charged against the earnings......" Does it say L/P maintenance adviser at it's sole expense, NO!!! Did your L/P maintenance adviser sign your contract, NO!!! So why would I agree to people making poor decisions in regards to MY CONTRACT? Advise me, yes, but don't dictate to me. If I negotiate a price of say $500 for something, and someone decides to loop me out and do what the want, and that price goes to $1,000, I have a problem with that. If someone tells me I need to have repairs done at a certain shop and it adds to my tab in any way, shape, or form, I have a problem with that. If you don't, then by all means do things your way.Click to expand...Last edited: Jul 16, 2013
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guess your experience hasn't been the same as mine.
if your that unhappy. you can always go lease for england. they've got the better program. -
You can always pay for your own repairs.
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Sammonsrecruiter said: ↑You can always pay for your own repairs.Click to expand...
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BTW Sammonsrecruiter I'm not the only one that thinks you have issues with maintenance, so doesn't DOT, we're at %81. Out of all the categories your company is judged on, it's the worst by far.
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and that's sammons fault.
cuz after all, it's the drivers that get pulled in. not the company. and some guys get inspected 15 times a month.
truckers have no one to blame for there company scores but themselves. -
cuz after all, it's the drivers that get pulled in. not the company. and some guys get inspected 15 times a month.Click to expand...
truckers have no one to blame for there company scores but themselves.Click to expand...
Example, we'll do drive tires; I blow a tire limp to shop 3 miles away. Knowing the condition of my tires (still legal but...), I go in and negotiate a price on a set of 8 tires roughly $2,800 OTD. Shop calls Sammons, I'm looped out, shop guy says Sammons says just do the back four at $1,900+tax. So $3,800+tax for the same 8 tires or $2,800, who's deal is better? Luckily on that deal, I dealt with the lady in tires/maintenance from Sammons, and got all 8 done. So, if someone said no because the tread depth was legal and I go up the road and blow another one, take out my fairing, and have to call road service, how much would I have saved? Keep in mind I'm in the truck everyday, so I know what may need replacing or not. Keeping that balance in mind, along with my revenue is what I will always do. Knowing I would be behind for the month, I book a load to more than cover the tires & load before the end of the month. It wasn't entered that way in the system, but in reality a rolling balance is a rolling balance.
Still with me? So the way our contract is, it differs from a fixed payment only in wording IMO. Take these numbers $6892.52/month after all expenses but not including maintenance, interest, pay-check. At 4 years & %12 a truck payment of $2133.70/month would apply. $4758.82/month left, less $2400/month for pay = $2358.82 for maintenance or $16511.74 left for maintenance to date. So as long as I'm under that $16511.74, which I am, I owe nothing to no one. My truck earnings are no different then a O/O's truck earnings, agree so far?
So what's my point? I'm getting there. Being in this program should be a benefit for those starting out. Someone is holding the money we earned from revenue. So what does this have to do with a safety score? Again, I'm getting there. I drove with a O/O cross country and he needed repairs, small ones. He went in got parts and together we fixed them in a relatively short period of time at the cost of parts. Now if I needed stuff done which on this trip I did, to their trailer, it's turns into a huge process and is more times than not, more expensive. Me and the O/O were talking about the score and I explained the process for a L/O. On this trip he got to see it in action, and he as well understood why some L/O's IMO, have chosen skip the pain of the process and keep rolling, which leads to failed inspections.Last edited: Jul 19, 2013
fargonaz Thanks this. -
trucks get pulled in becuase the company has a high score.
again, it's the drivers that got the company a high score to begin with.
AND, as a driver who spent the last 2 years with 2 companies that were MAXED out on there scores. all my FEW inspections i got were done by the highway patrol. NOT the scales.
so, if our score is high. and the last 2 companies were even higher. how come i roll right on through. while everyone else gets stopped????
the scales see a dirty truck, a cluttered dash, no seatbelt, or whatever,
they see something that gives them a reason to pull the truck in.
don't give them a reason to stop you. and scores will go down.
i wear my seatbelt, i keep my truck clean and organized. and no one is stopping me.
again, it all comes down to the driver.
there are drivers that are getting inspected 15 times a month. and put OOS. i get inspected once every 4 months.
i won't be racking up any bonuses but i don't really care. all i care about is NOT getting inspected. i've got a load to deliver. and hanging around BS'ING with the cops or scales. delays my delivery.Joetro Thanks this.
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