Short of holding a square dance in a minefield, there can’t be many situations as fraught with risk as establishing a lease-purchase program to help build your capacity with grow-your-own ...

FMCSA's Truck Leasing Task Force discussed the fairness of—and possible solutions to—lease-purchase agreements between carriers and drivers. This was the fourth meeting of the Truck Leasing Task Force ...

The Truck Leasing Task Force (TLTF), created by the Department of Transportation to study leases that independent owner-operators work under with trucking companies, has had four public meetings. But ...

In a damning report, the Truck Leasing Task Force assembled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recommended that Congress should ban motor carrier lease-purchase agreements with truck ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A federal truck leasing task force commissioned to study the prevalence of predatory practices in truck lease-purchase agreements ...

Glenn Helmly retired from over-the-road work in December of 2022 in favor of a local job as urinary drug screen tech with a private company doing testing work for the DUI courts in his area in Georgia ...

It’s no secret that affording a new tractor has become more complicated for owner-operators and many smaller carriers over the past decade, as both equipment and insurance costs have risen ...

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America, Inc. (FUSO) is partnering with Morgan Corporation and Daimler Truck Financial to offer lease and purchase programs for its 2017 Fuso FE160 Class 4 medium-duty cabover ...

U.S. Xpress, the nation’s sixth largest carrier, announced last week a new lease-purchase program for drivers, offering 2015 Freightliner Cascadias for weekly lease payments of $493 and higher, ...