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Originally Posted by MichiganDriver
I'm stuck at 9 trucks and no authority. Whoa, there's a whole 'nother way to skin the income cat isn't there? I applaud you!
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We could lease more trucks to FedEx but have a few reasons we don't want to.
One is economically it doesn't make sense to do it with the way they operate until we get more dedicated runs. Yes it will add revenue to the new truck added on but it will take away from revenue from one of the other extra board trucks. So basically we will not be profiting off adding a new truck to them right now unless we buy out another contractor that has dedicated runs.
Two is we don't want all the eggs in one basket. We have all seen these companies fold without any notice and really don't want to be caught with our pants down with that many trucks not running while the trucks and drivers are waiting to get approved by another company.
Three is the plan for the company is to have its own authority sooner or later and build it as the budget allows.
We really don't have that many trucks compared to some FedEx contractors there are contractors with 20+ trucks they have leased on to them but they have been there since it was RPS in the 80's.