Carrier Maintenance Manager Involvement

[Rawze]

yup.. sounds like a typical string of bad decisions to me too. Right along side the typical garbage you get from the stealers$its and the typical garbage arguments you get from the lease holder, who's final goal is to almost always, never let you actually hold that truck title in your own hands at the end of it all.

I have yet to see an OEM repair shop rebuild an ISX worth a stick in the last several several years, nonetheless would not completely rip you off. It is a major mistake to even let them near your truck, especially if it has a major engine failure... and I would even go as far as saying this even it had a warranty covering it too. Someone is far better off simply knuckling down and having things done right, than to get that OEM repair that is only going to end up being half-arsed to h#ell and beyond by a bunch of speed-gun happy idiots.

Owning a truck has nothing to do with running off to a stealers$it for repairs. That is the LAST and WORST places to take a truck these days.!!!... -- If that is what you are doing with that truck, then like the others have said, .. go back to being a company driver and be happy .. you will make more moneys.

85% of all lease-purchase operators fail their lease as soon as a major repair takes them out of commission. They do stupid things like digging themselves into major debt by renting a truck while the other one is down .. they make bad decisions like taking the truck to a stealers$it .. and then they make even worse decisions by relying on some kind of garbage 'Maintenence fund' and all sorts of other things that keeps digging that financial hole deeper and deeper...poring everything into it endlessly, only to have the truck taken away from them for one reason or another .. and never holding that truck title in their hands.

Sounds to me like the bad decisions have already been made at this point. There is nothing anyone can do to reverse this. .. My advice.. walk away and become a company driver again. Learn that you cannot ever hope to own a truck with bad planning and bad decisions like that.

READ MY BOOK at the top of the forum.. study it and check to see how many things that I mention of the 19 things to avoid on a lease purchase deal.. and then go ask yourself what kind of mess you ended up signing into there.

Also, HOW MUCH you want to bet that if you called them up and said you are going to rebuild it yourself .. that they would not come off the money for the parts, out of your own so-called 'main. fund' that ehemm .. supposedly is yours??.

Unfortunately, like others mentioned already, your story is a repeating broken record around here. It have seen it time and again over and over, and by the time most people realize it,.. it is far too late.

- YOU CANNOT RUN A TRUCKING BUSINESS OFF OF 'MAINTENANCE FUNDS!!!

- YOU CANNOT OPERATE A TRUCKING BUSINESS WITHOUT SOME WORKING CAPITOL OF YOUR OWN FOR RAINY DAYS (MONEYS SAVED UP FOR EX$ REPAIRS)!!!.

-- YOU CANNOT RUN A TRUCKING BUSINESS BY BEING FORCED TO LET EVERYONE ELSE MAKE YOUR DECISIONS, AND/OR BY RUNNING OFF TO EX$$ HORRIBLE OEM REPAIR SHOPS EVERY TIME SOMETHING HAPPENS!!!.