Better off selling drugs. At least you'll be assured of 3 hots and a cot.
We rent trucks to each other all the time.
The infighting would be ceaseless and bitter especially if two contractor's are in urgent need of the one and only available truck Every contractor must now acquire and maintain assets both human and mechanical sufficient to service all of his volume on a daily basis during times of both high and low volume. Doing so is costly especially if you have trucks and people sitting around with nothing to do for day's at a time but that's the game now. Allowing other contractors to leech off of your inventory simply because they don't want to have to carry the additional overhead seeking instead to pocket the savings is setting both of you up for failure.
You have an interesting fantasy of how contractors are out to screw each other and/or themselves.
I once allowed the terminal to use my spare truck for a Saturday HD overflow.. Their temp driver was out with it trying to get the way too many stops and miles covered hammered down blew the engine made it back to the terminal . I found out about it 2 days later when I started it up . Knew better than to bring the matter before management Now let's say you rent one of yours to a contractor and the same thing happens. Or he takes it out and totals it and let's just suppose it's discovered later that it had an unknown defect existed and that defect is alleged to be a contributing factor in the accident.
Most aren't, but some are. Overlap is going to be fun to watch. lol
I’ve heard of contractors just setting up a Uhaul franchise to rent to themselves and other contractors. My mechanic has a deal with Penske so he always has a handful of those around. I just watch for decent deals at auctions to use for extra spares. Buy em for cash, no sense taking on debt right now.
They’ll get you through the day, not what you want as a daily driver. Even a crappy step van is better than a box truck to work out of.
Ground has different standards of road worthy. But I’ve gotten some that aren’t too bad, low mileage but old. Just got a 2002 freightliner with 40k miles for $5k. It’s only a p500, but after a couple grand to get it back in shape it’s not a bad truck. Can’t use it for a full route but it’s nice for clean up.
Quite a change from days gone by when you couldn't put on the road anything more than 3 years old.
He doesn't care, therefore if you want to continue working for this guy then you'll have to fall back to the two basic rules of Fedex operation. Rule number one: the dumber you act, the less they expect from you......... Rule number two:......don't fix it when it's broke.....fix it when it quits running.
That is SO perverted!
