Lease-purchase programs offered or managed by motor carriers in the trucking industry are under perhaps their biggest challenge to date. The Truck Leasing Task Force (TLTF), established by the Federal ...

Evidence suggests truck leasing programs do more harm than good. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — A federal task force has released its final report on trucking lease-purchase programs and ...

The lease-purchase problem — Trucking lease-purchase contracts are under fire as the Truck Leasing Task force calls them a system to harm drivers. FreightWaves reports, “the 51-page report, issued by ...

Motor carriers/affiliates' lease-purchase plans and programs have traditionally been somewhat well-used paths to truck ownership, particularly among operators with otherwise shaky credit, but the ...

Lease-purchase programs offered or managed by motor carriers in the trucking industry are under perhaps their biggest challenge to date. The Truck Leasing Task Force (TLTF), established by the Federal ...

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 ...

Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-California) has introduced a bill to crack down on predatory lease-purchase programs in the trucking industry. “Current predatory leasing arrangements exploit ...

The ongoing task force created by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to study — investigate? — lease purchase agreements had a recent and largely negative moment in the sun with a public ...

[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 not a new idea, a sale and lease-back transaction — where the owner of an asset sells the asset and then leases it back from the buyer — might make sense for some fleets today. The transaction ...

In the wake of the Great Recession, America’s homeownership rate stands at its lowest point in two decades. Even as housing in some areas has become more affordable than ever, many aspiring homeowners ...