It Is MUCH More Time Consuming & A Hassle To Change Trucks vs. Changing Companies!!!
Has anyone else experienced this?
When you change companies, you are 1/2 or 2/3 of a week down for orientation & paperwork. Then you are back on the road. Switching trucks, I will have been down a full two weeks!!! :pissedoff: OK, on a Tuesday afternoon, I checked w/ dispatch, and they said they didn't have a specific next load for me, and they said it would be best that I head home & check with them in the A.M., so I did. I get home & check Truck Paper online. I find my dream truck, a 2006 Volvo 780 w/ 465 HP Volvo engine & autoshift. So I call the Volvo dealer & find out it was still available. So I give them a CC# to hold it. Weds A.M. 1st thing, I go to my credit union and apply for a used car loan (like I had done 5 years prior for my 1st truck). I filled out appl., and expected to be heading toward the dealer in the afternoon with a check. No such luck. The C.U. calls me & says that the rules had changed, I'd have to apply for a "business loan" instead. So I go back to C.U. & fill out appl. I sit at home, waiting & waiting. I expected any moment to hear a check was ready. No such luck. They tell me "a 3rd party" was evaluating the loan. I wait & wait some more. FINALLY, late Friday afternoon, just before the CU closed, the check was ready. So I call the dealer with the good news. I thought I could go to dealer Saturday morning, but no such luck. Salesman says truck won't be ready until at least Monday morning, and to call him then (I live about 5 hours away). So Monday morning I call, and he says truck won't be ready until noon Tuesday. So I leave early Tuesday A.M. for Savannah from Orlando area. I get there, do paperwork, switch 5 years worth of junk from one truck to the other, and find out they do NOT have the Title!!! Volvo Corp. does!!! I cannot lease back on to my company, until my application for FL Title is complete. Then I also find out Title is being sent to Savannah dealer 1st instead of directly to me. So here I STILL sit waiting & waiting. I'm hoping tomorrow is FINALLY the day I get the Title, but no guarantees of even that. :( I'm just hoping my co. still remembers who I am when I arrive w/new truck. :eek2: |
That's why I always pay cash.
Most companies only require a application for title as proof of ownership, and a paid 2290 w/DOT inspection. |
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I usually buy from a seller and not a dealer, and the one dealer I have used always has the titles in hand. |
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I got my (backup) GPS that I accidentally left in my truck days ago, and it was sent only by FedEx Ground :mad: |
Update: Well, after 17 down days, :bigcry: I will finally be hitting the road in my like-new Volvo 780!!!
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