"WARNING"

A lease only benefits the lessor in the end. Most leases are never completed and your over paying for old equipment. For example if we're talking an 07' 379 you can easily pick one up on truckpaper for the $50-65,000 price range compared to the $125,000 your paying JCT for the same thing.

I don't see the logic in it but then again I don't see the logic in smoking crack but people do that too. Here's another thing to take into consideration, your not going to be able to do whatever you want with a lease. Why would you want to pay twice as much and have half the freedom?

 

Lone Mountain is for people who banks will not take, I know because banks laughed at my credit application and Lone Mountain accepted it and got me in a truck. They also don't care where you lease the truck onto as long as insurance requirments are met and payments are current.

 

I worked for a company before where a dispatcher kept a gun strapped under his desk. He was ready! ^^That company must of been rich.^^

 

That's one of those thing's that'll make go "HMMMMM" about. An already 4 year old truck with roughly around 400K miles on it with a $518.00 a week truck payment at 52 week's a year for 4.5 years. I came up with the answer of $121,212.00, how did you get 121,251.00? Now adding the addtional 4 year's of payment's from another driver at that current weekly rate. $242,424.00 Then top of fuel, insurance, permits (if you have to pay for them) tag's, trailer rental and so on. Pretty much what most have been saying all along. Just with that truck payment average you could have bought two truck's and had them paid off a hell of a lot faster considering monthly and not weekly payments with intrest. Now at an 8- 8.5 year old truck with probably a million miles or more on it considering the way they run you paid the brand new price on a used truck, it's a wore out POS with more shakes, rattle's, roll's, problems and makes more noise than the space shuttle and the company got rich for the cost of two brand new trucks from the drivers.
#### ain't it just B-E-A-UTIFUL!
How bout a spot of tea and a biscut?

 

That's why Wiley Sanders (Troy, AL.) has their dispatchers behind glass. Don't know if it's bullet proof and if the hill billy owner can aford bullet proof glass which I'm sure he can, but I do know they are behind a fairly thick wire reinforced pane of glass with a small hole to talk through and a thin rounded cut out to slide paperwork underneath and the dispatcher's are in small offices behind wall's and not cubicals.

 

Actually that is to keep punches from getting thrown. It also attenuates the nose from the yard. I worked for them and that was the reason I was told. No way that would stop a bullet, but a baseball bat, fist, or tire iron would surely be stopped.

 

Perhaps smoking crack makes truck driving more tolerable to some. I recall the fatal accident in Florida where the driver had been 'on duty' for 32 hours when he slammed into the back of a school bus and the vehicles behind it. Witnesses stated the first thing the driver did was get out of his rig and start taking photos with his camera phone. Thinking it was a Crete driver and he was sentenced to prison ...lot's of 'crack' there for sure.

 

I workd in the customer service section of a utility company years back and I also carried a sidearm in an open briefcase out of view of the customers. This was a private utility with a poor reputation; threats and assaults on a regular basis. I also worked for a bank where many carried sidearms for protection from other 'employees'. The employees in question were the 'quota hires' who verbally and physically assaulted others at will, usually without getting fired due to 'diversity'....

 

Why would you want to spend your own dough maintaining someone elses equipment?

 

LMAO!! First time in England yard I was freaked out because there was and is always like six guards with guns walking around everywhere. You cant go to any department without being frisked, and ran threw a metal detector, by a gun carrying security guard. My first thought was, why so darn many guns. Its a stupid trucking company, they cant have very much cash here? A few months working for england, the enigma wore off, and I even thought a half dozens guns spread out threw out that one big building might not be enough.