Western Flyer Express starting of a new adventure

Discussion in 'Lease Purchase Trucking Forum' started by Cookie931, Nov 7, 2018.

  1. Cookie931

    Cookie931 Light Load Member

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    Yes you can get better rates but if people wanna chase a rate to brag about then this is not the company for them. Everything I know right now this is a lp program giving you a truck that comparable to buying one on ur own. That if you want to work hard and given the highest chance to get ur sea legs and make it to owning ur own truck. I’ve only seen one other program and it is pretty much identical to this one but that company only pulls dryvan and reefer. I pay for fuel and my taxes pretty much everything else is covered. Ya it’s like a glorified company guy but after my time in I can show a truck for my efforts. I got knocked all the way down to reset in finances I feel like this will be a good thing in the long haul. But time will tell
     
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  3. REO6205

    REO6205 Road Train Member

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    Something to think about. You're starting off with a fairly good truck. That's great.
    But in five years when you pay that truck off you'll have a high mileage worn out machine that has probably already started to cost you money for repairs.
    You''ll have a choice then. Either drive that beater and hope nothing expensive strands you somewhere, do overhauls on all the major components, or start all over with another new truck.
    Think about where you want to be...not tomorrow or next week or even next year...think where you want to be five years from now.
    The company isn't offering LP out of the goodness of their heart.
     
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  4. Rugerfan

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    In five years you should have around 600-650k on it. If it needs a rebuild around then or 700k or so I think you’ll still be in good shape with it. It’s a solid truck. Not saying I’m smarter than anyone because I’m definitely not, but a truck should last years and years.
     
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    You're right, they should last that long. If he takes good care of it, drives it right, does his maintenance when he should, it should last him. That doesn't always work, though. Money gets tight and a guy might slack off on his PM program. That's a bad deal.
    Sooner or later it's going to start wearing out and costing him money. Then he'll have to figure out whether to dump a bunch of money into rebuilding...and hopefully he'll have that money set aside in a maintenance account...or LP another new one.
     
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  6. Cookie931

    Cookie931 Light Load Member

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    I do hear ya on what ur saying I will be under a bumper to bumper warranty for the duration of the lease so pm and such will be covered my goal is to pay the truck off and I framed and such will be in a near future if I keep the truck these trucks do have a tendency to hold up better than say a arrow truck up around those miles just saying. If the truck does get to costly to repair they will allow me to roll over what I’ve paid towards another truck if I want to. I plan on in 5 years to have to money saved to either A-pay off what’s left of the lease or B- go and buy a truck an trailer. Again tho these are will see plans. Also something worth noting is I got this truck brand spanken new with 17miles and 5hrs on the truck. Another is if Iam marking money for 5 yrs and am we’re I want to be income wise these things will more or less fall into line and at that point it will be a business choice I will make then not now. But I do agree with you on all you said. I am thinking of the long term plan and the short term.
     
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  7. Cookie931

    Cookie931 Light Load Member

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    Also I think I have a dam good truck fyi
     
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  8. REO6205

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    That is true. Keep us posted. Good luck to you.
     
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  9. Cookie931

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    Iam am will get my first settlement for wed to Friday of the week in orientation. Also my 3600 mile comment was wed to wed not the normal pay week Friday midnight to Friday midnight, also keep in mind that thanksgiving is in the middle of this second one
     
  10. Cookie931

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    Well another day at wfx over so far I’ve had a preplan at least 12 in adv of me getting to my delivery every time avg loaded length is hovering in the 800 mile zone with very low dead head getting 75 to tarp loads and things are nice first settlement was good for a short one took 1,164 to the house on 1900mile total. Iam thinker that if things keep going like they are this could turn out really good. Iam ready to get my first whole week in here this week now that turkey day is out of the way. Iam not lighting the woods on fire but it’s good. Numbers for first week are skewed a lil due to miss understanding on when fuel reset each week that burned me for 500 but gotta learn the company. Biggest thing Iam excited on was my fuel discount that I got did the figure on just one stop for comparison, this week Iam doing a avg of discount, end up getting a .74 cent discount from the pump price. We’ll see how things keep up
     
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  11. Cookie931

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    Oh my rate this week with fsc on all miles was 1.50 per dispatched miles
     
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