Those that need/want to Fleece Purchase from a carrier

i beg to differ

 

Wow you feel your an expert why???

 

Although really tempting at times to say this, I always resisted myself.
Reading through the Prime threads (as an example), and hearing how @$1k a week is a fortune for a "O/O", I just crack up.
I cant think of any other industry, where someone who has no clue about being in business, or the industry as a whole, can go and buy a business with no money down etc.
Would love to see a bank managers face if 90% of the flease operators walked in and asked to borrow a swift $130k to buy a truck, when they have been driving a whopping 12 months....and wouldn't know a profit and loss statement from a bar of chocolate.
Same goes for working on them, if you cant do basic maintenance/repairs, you have no business owning one, just IMO of course.
Wait in line to get a bulb changed? Idiotic.

Like I said, just my .02 and dont mean to make anyone cry or get all defensive.
Think it's getting to the point of needing a flease operator section, separate from the owner operator section.

Martin

 

After your ONE year of driving? I'll take that for what it's worth...

40 years in the industry, I say he has a pretty good idea, and like quite a few of us, is getting sick of reading about all the flease operator wannabee's that think they know everything, after a year of holding a steering wheel.
The biggest winners by far in flease deals, are the trucking companies. Period.

Martin

 

Are you an O/O?

 

Money + CDL expierence does not = success. You still have to have some business skills.

L\P through company does not = failure.

 

I politely have to disagree with you. Im 24 this month and am on my 2nd new truck 1 old. Why? Because i run my rear off every day every week. I stay away from lease purchas tho