Been watching your channel for a while since I’ve been at crst. I’m lease purchase my weekly deduction is $1050. You hit the nail on the head. Only other advice I’d say for new guys, 1. STAY OUT OF FLORIDA! I live there and I can tell you first hand it’s a nightmare getting decent pay coming in, and almost impossible getting anything coming out, 2. If you plan to stay out over weekends, get you a decent haul for your weekend load and use that to get your reset in. 3. Like stated in the video short hauls are better, (500-700 miles) I run for 3 weeks then come home for 9 days, I do one long run over the weekend, then Monday thru Friday I run my short hops. It has worked for me living in a terrible place for our market, and I’ve easily pocketed $2500-$3500 on average, every week since I started in may of 2022. My highest week was $5000 in pocket but the starts just aligned perfectly for me that week.
@@codyhart9610 nice I can't tell you how many times my current company has sent me to Medina to get shingles. Usually headed to North Carolina or Virginia, went to KC and St. Louis as well. That place is 45 minutes from my house.
It can be done‼️I wish I would’ve found your page 2 years ago with my LP. Tomorrow I pay my ballon payment with CRST Flatbed and it’s been a ride. Everything you said is POINT ON. You got a follower and hopefully I see you on the road. Truck on
Great video. Sometimes as humans we have the ability to over complicate things. This is a very common sense approach. Never really understood individuals that want to drive trucks and take it easy at the same time. If you are going to invest that much time and energy into something you should be trying to run it up and maximize. Thank you for your content and your insight. Be safe out there on the road.🕶🙏👍
You’d be shocked, I’ve told guys do this this and this and you’ll be fine only to have them do the complete opposite and then ask me why it didn’t work💁
You better off not to do a lease purchase go get a loan and get you a good used truck come better than you can go anywhere you want iam lease on to mercer he's doing good job on his videos
A timely video since I'm going to orientation at CRST on Monday. Looking forward to this challenge and the possibility that my hard work will actually count towards something
@@ShawnTheTrucker yep. No complaints about the company itself, just figuring out how to navigate this market. I'm more or less making company driver pay right now, hoping I'll be able to weather the storm and start saving money again soon. I will say I'm loving the experience of being an independent contractor with nobody monitoring me, bothering me or telling me what to do - I'm left alone to handle everything myself which is perfect for me
@@squirt.mcgirt That’s good to hear brother. I know what you mean this isn’t the best market right now. I know that’s good feeling the freedom to pick your own loads. Keep grinding and stay safe brother. Thanks for the reply.
4 grand seems really low lol. 7 to 10 I think is more the norm. I don't know tho lol. I'm starting orientation the 20th. Good info. I was thinking $1200 for truck and trailer and everything else and I use $1500 to $2000 for fuel a week as a company flatbed driver right now. So at least 3k was what I was thinking every week in expenses before I even get paid. Hey can you do a video for lease guys on the difference for someone who has a corporation and that tax benefit compared to someone who gets paid the other way? Thanks.
I don’t do Tax videos because they’re too complicated of a subject, but there are several on RU-vid, most are bad, which is why I don’t even attempt them, contact a good CPA not a RU-vidr lolll And yes $3000 per week will be your expenses when it’s all said and done, so for you to make anything your minimum should be $4000
@@sturgelltruckingllc4074 or 7 to 10k? I realize things vary week to week. Save your money, incorporate for tax reasons don't buy a hellcat lol. I get it.
@@sturgelltruckingllc4074 on average we get it. Also there's no truck payment the first 2 weeks. But I also heard there may be problems getting a truck idk. Steve Harvey and Denzel will let you know lol. Crazy how I found you man.
@@gregpramuka4239 yeah it is pretty easy to find steel loads going through the midwest. That is where I stay now, I am from West Virginia though close to PA and there are loads around there too just not as many
@@gregpramuka4239 i live in chicago, so many machine shops and steel mills. work as a machinist and seeing the guys hit the dock everyday to get unloaded indoors with our little crane making knowing they make 2-3x the money i do take home has me dreaming and scheming something big time!
Those poor uber drivers. I knew it was over when they were hauling the loads I haul with those high priced trucks. IMO In a bad or high cost market it pays to have a paid-off truck, thank God that's the route I took.
@@taureanbuford4107 you can book as far out as you want, but be careful because things happen and if you start canceling loads, the agents will no longer let you book multiple loads and if you do it often enough, no one will book a load in advance with you and will make you wait till you call them empty
We’ll one is now, at least for the Time being, I’m not sure why because he’s making a fortune off RU-vid, He’s built a huge channel by parading his wife around half naked for his viewers💁
I’m not a lease purchase guy I am an actual owner operator leased on to CRST, but I get a lot of calls from the lease purchase guys here at CRST so I do videos to help them ….I also don’t normally recommend lease purchase programs, but in this truck market, it’s actually become a really good deal and the one here at CRST is as good as you’re going to find
What’s that? I’m pretty sure I have a grasp on the trucking industry after 3 1/2 decades but if you have something to add I’m all ears, let’s hear it buddy
@sturgelltruckingllc4074 inflation? The cost of everything you but your comparing 2018 money to 2023 money but inflation over those 5 years is over 21% if you made 2 bucks a mile in 2018 you need 2.40 just to be even not counting fuel that's all I'm saying this isn't a trucking industry issue but it still applies and onestly the parts and labor has probably inflated more then 21% for trucking that just a general inflation number for normal people your dollar is worth 21% less then it was 5 years ago if your not profiting more then 21% then your losing money 11% of that was 2021 alone
@@bennaylor3658 that all sounds good and I’m sure those numbers are from some official website somewhere but I disagree with them. The only thing that is inflated terribly is equipment which nobody should be buying (which would drive the prices down to where they should be) everything else is pretty status quo. Things may have gone up a little bit but not 21%, unless you pay dealership prices, you have to shop around , and fuel is covered by the fuel surcharge, it goes up and down so that’s not really an issue, in fact, I laugh everybody’s complaining about rates right now, but they seem to forget when the rates were sky high fuel went up to 5 & 6 dollars a gallon but now it’s under 4 dollars a gallon. They always leave that part out…… there’s always guys making excuses and giving reasons why they can’t make it while I continue to profit year after year after year, I guess your either a cup half empty or a cup half full kinda guy, trucking has good years and bad years. You can deal with it and keep moving forward or complain about it and quit. It’s really that simple Brother. Best of luck to ya
1000 to 2000 a day. For those of us that can run a clock out lol. Also i spoke with a recruiter a while back last year and they were doing per mile still doing per mile is ther percentage pay new?
I assume you’re asking about the fuel surcharge, you get 100% of that and that would be included in the $4000 a week minimum that I am talking about, it’s in the load total
