SHORT TERM LEASES, (6 month)

You lack the knowledge to make a go at it, you've been doing this for how long, less than 6 months, there is a lot more to it than just leasing on with a company.

Look I see it this way, the more prepared you are, the more successful you will be. The failure rate, in the industry is above 90%, close to 95%, and many of these are drivers who waited, learned as much as possible, and still failed.

But as DD said, you have your mind made up, so ...

 

Just buy new or buy one with very little miles on it if you are a team. Also if you plan on only driving team for 5-10 years then it would be wise to buy something with 100-150K since you will turn those miles out fast. Also make sure you get something that gets great fuel economy. If you are ready then just pull the trigger.

I don't believe you have a chance at all of getting a rental or 6 month lease truck to be honest without being in business for 3-5 years.

 

I went on my own out the gate on my own authority with NO Driving experience. Don't let the nay sayers talk down on you. If you have common business knowledge you will do just fine. The driving part is the easiest part of the whole business.

Only thing I would say is track your numbers on the company truck and see if it makes sense to run your own truck after knowing the numbers with them. Get with the other O/Os that work there and see if they will share the cost side from the business like Insurance and whatever they charge to run under them.

 

I want you to succeed, and I'm sure everyone else here does too.

I'm like @Siinman, i started with zero experience in freight, or trucking in general. But i had thorough knowkedge of truck and trailer repair, and a 20 year old CDL i hadn't used.

And while I am 100% behind anybody who has served. That discipline doesn't always make great business owners.

Great luck whatever you decide

 

What everyone is telling you, it's a dead end. You're not an established business none of the places that do it will talk to you about it. It's expensive even when you can do it. And honestly you two haven't figured out how to take a shower every day and not interfere with a schedule? A team on ELD's?

 

When you say made 140k is that gross or net?

 

If they rent a truck to you, and they probably will because they don't have any business, you will have to pay them $1000+ weekly plus 20 cpm.
If you drive 5000 miles per week, you'll have to pay $2000+ every week...

 

Back in July my truck was down for a week in KC for an injector. I was loaded for Phoenix and already had a reload coming back. I checked with PacLease in KC because they had trucks available. I will tell you that it made zero sense for me to try and rent a truck to do my round. The office moved some things around and a guy coming back from TX grabbed my trailer and went made all the drops. I don’t remember the exact terms but it wasn’t worth what they wanted to get paid for a truck. I rented a car and came home for a week.