My lease purchase experience with Gulick Trucking

So, as you guys can remember, a few months ago I started looking for a decent company to try a lease purchase program for the first time in my career. About 80% of posters told me it’s a very bad idea, but I believed that lease purchase means more freedom, more hometime, and, eventually, a paid off truck.

Oh boy how I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hunting for a "more hometime" option I ended up having less hometime than I ever had in any of the companies I drove for. Turned out that post saying that fleece purchase drivers can’t afford hometime was not a sarcasm.

So, after 5 months on a lease purchase program with Gulick, here are my pros and cons.

Pros:
1. No driver facing camera.
2. Trucks governed at 70 mph on both pedal and cruise.
3. Newer Volvo trucks with original Volvo fridge (GOOD one, it even has a freezer!).
4. You can do all 48 if you want. You can only do 11 western states if you want.

Cons:
1. Absolutely no money here. After all deductions I make about the same what Swift students make during their first months.
2. 90% reefer loads, 90% live load/unload.
3. Smells like a favoritism here! I mean, I can’t prove it, but it’s a small company (around 200 drivers) and daam it smells BAD like there is a favoritism.

So there are no company drivers. Which means, there is no such a thing like good trips go to company drivers, bad ones go to fleece purchase drivers. No. Despite this, see #1 Con.

Hope it was helpful information.

 

So in case you’re a fan of driver facing cameras, there is a plastic cover that you can easily remove and enjoy it. I mean, that device has cameras looking both ways.

In case you’re not a fan of Volvos, they also have newer Kenworths and Peterbuilts. I think they’re even cheaper.