[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 ...

While I have been a proponent, to an extent, of the efficacy of the lease-purchase model for new owners and others lacking the capital to secure favorable financing, I’ve always accompanied that with ...

Lease-purchasing a truck in a carrier's lease program or through another third-party company is fundamentally an uncommon avenue toward truck ownership, according to every Truck Purchase & Lease ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence suggests truck leasing programs do more harm than good. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — A federal task force ...

Selling used equipment to an independent contractor is a good way to boost recruiting potential and recapitalize used trucks, if you’re very careful how you proceed. Short of holding a square dance in ...

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 ...

Carrier lease-purchase agreements are “irredeemable tools of fraud" that threaten supply chains, a federal task force on truck leasing warns Congress. An FMCSA task force is pushing Congress to ban ...

The new task force of trucking experts that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration formed to address predatory truck-leasing tactics deployed by some motor carriers against truckers held its ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] For some trucking companies, a truck lease-purchase agreement could be a hit-or-miss event with long-term ramifications. However, ...

Like many long-haul truckers, Frank Merrill dreamed of being his own boss. Some day, he told himself, he would buy his own big rig and become an owner-operator, king of the road, choosing what loads ...

U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would crack down on truck leasing programs between motor carriers and truck drivers that are seen as ...

Editor's note: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will not release a recording of the panel hearing but is eventually expected to release notes on the Truck Leasing Task Force's website.