Werner - Lease-Purchase Running Solo?

Werner does not have a lease program

 

I have never driven for Werner.. I know absolutely no one that drives for Werner..that being said

No way, no how, starving, standing on the side of the road and 2 trucks pull up to help me..one being Werner the the other CR England..

I would ask the Werner driver to run over me and the CR England driver to back over me afterwards (assuming he can back up straight)!

Bottom feeder comanies will use you and ruin you

 

Greatwide has a good truck purchase(not lease) program. Lots of dedicated accounts.

 

What is attracting you to a lease purchase? You'd be better off leasing something from a dealer with a ball on payment or $1 buyout at 20% interest than doing a lease purchase through a carrier. Just my opinion.

 

I only know of one L/p driver for werner. He was very upset because his drives tires has 200k miles on them, looked absolutely pristene, still had tons of life on them, but werner refused to dispach him until he purchased ALL 10 NEW TIRES!!!, simply because the drives had more miles than they wanted to see.

Its a sad thing to see a carrier dictate to their Owner-Ops, how they should run their business...Rawze

 

I have a friend who leases, used to do 48 and now on the south Carolina 3M. He trains and says he makes good money, keeps telling me to do it. I keep turning him down, I dont want to have to run if I get sick of training or whatnot... and get stuck in a lease for a truck that will have almost a million miles on it by the time its paid off. The take home is probably about 40cpm while training... so it can be decent, but a lot of lease ops dont save that money and go in the hole.
Do the math, I put away a grand a month from training for the company... and then add on my tax return. It would take at least 3 months to save enough to be able to handle a typical $3000 major part failure, like computers, ect. If you go freightliner, your turbos and engine are covered to 600,000... but the other trucks dont come close. So your first few months you are running on hope...that you dont have a major failure.

Prime seems to have a decent lease, the trucks are nice and you can assume a lease that someone got out of. I have heard its a "Walk away" lease, so it doesnt effect credit if you drop it. They have one year leases too.

Prime is one of the only companies I have seen that the drivers are actually kind of happy, my DC is in springfield down the road from their terminal, and they have great looking terminal and the dealer is full of their brand new trucks. Werner has nice trucks, but Prime blows them away... newer and with better equipment in every way... no joking. Every color you can think of, deer guards, APUs... you name it. I have had several lease trainers tell me they often bring home 2 grand a week, while I can make about 1600 as a company trainer if my student is reliable...
Their lease trainers seem not to give a crap that they are at a dealer, just lean back in that chair and enjoy the time off...

But If I could do it, I would finance a truck outside of a company, from Lone Mountain or something.... and then use brokers. Im not sure if I would ever lease on, unless I really wanted to make extra by training....

 

i guess they just started since nobody want to buy their overprized used trucks but theres nothing on the website.