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Business

Used purchase: Lower costs ease risks of expansion for small-fleet owner

Small fleet owner William Howard has been contemplating purchasing a series of used trucks to keep up with freight demand with a regular broker customer. “It’s really just kind of a time in trucking where you don’t know what you need to do,” he says. “We’re needing to grow, but there’s so many things you have to consider.”

April 6, 2018

Business

Buyers welcome: The truck purchasing landscape for owner-ops

Economic conditions, tax changes, productivity pressures and equipment improvements have spurred a big increase in truck purchasing by owner-operators and fleets of all sizes.

April 4, 2018

Business

Uber offering fuel, tire discounts to truckers using Uber Freight

The Uber Freight Plus program includes fuel and maintenance discounts, discounts on cell phone plans, as well as rebates on the acquisition of additional equipment.

March 21, 2018

Channel 19

Making the most of an Alaska plate

A visit with owner-operator Jerry Boyd, whose 2016 Prostar has something on its front that you don’t see very often in the Southeast, an Alaska plate under its apportioned plate, following a memorable far-north run back last June. Boyd may well get to use it again before the registration runs out …

March 9, 2018

Channel 19

Are tax changes relative to equipment investment and depreciation enough to move you?

Tax reform’s depreciation update explored: Do short-term sizable tax gains under new depreciation rules give you sufficient impetus to make an investment you might otherwise not have? Or do you view other purchase considerations as primary in any truck-purchase decision, taxes playing little role?

February 23, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Used truck glut can spell bargains for buyers

By January 2017, retail prices for 3- to 5-year-old sleeper tractors averaged $65,910. That was $7,412 lower than the same group a year ago, and with 2.2 percent fewer miles.

April 7, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

Eyes on the prize: The market for pre-2000 trucks in light of ELD exemption

Pre-2000 model year trucks take on a new luster as a way out of the ELD mandate. Now might be the best time to beat an expected spike in prices.

December 8, 2016

Business

ClearPath Financial: Evolution after 10 years

After beginning as a general equipment leasing business in 2006, ClearPath evolved into a specialization in financing both heavy construction equipment and commercial trucks, tailoring financing to owners’ needs.

October 25, 2016

Channel 19

13 reasons you hang on to that old truck

Having a truck paid off makes for a boost in versatility in decisions about the business — in a variety of ways, too, many associated with outright ownership of specifically older equipment, experienced truck owner-operators note.

August 17, 2016

Business

Making the truck acquisition decision: To lease or purchase?

Rising equipment, maintenance costs drive closer looks at options old and new for acquiring a truck by purchase, lease-purchase or full-service lease deal.

August 16, 2016

Business

Ryder’s ChoiceLease flexible leasing options

While full-service leasing has been a mainstay among small private fleets, it’s growing as an option explored by owners of for-hire fleets large and small, Ryder says. ChoiceLease allows truckers to structure lease deals in three different ways.

July 25, 2016

Business

Mack Leasing full-service demand on upswing

Mack Leasing System is today seeing greater demand for leasing services, having added 19 member dealer locations to its network in 2015.

April 29, 2016