Profile For Saffe

Old School, David isn't a just a recruiter for Western Express, he's the head of the lease/purchase program. It's HIS baby.

My neighbor is leasing a truck from them (which is how I know David's name and have heard of him) and the things I have heard do not paint as rosy a picture as he does. The one thing I do HAVE to counter though, and would love for him to answer, is that the estimated $700 a week truck package payment includes the escrow amounts. I am very good at math, so my neighbor has had me going over his settlement sheets to look for errors. I have to say that I have added the figures and $700 a week on an almost exactly 2500 mile week, does not in ANY way include the escrow amounts. They add a considerable amount more to what comes out of the driver's pay. And the figures of 1.45 to 1.85 a mile? Somebody must be getting lucky somewhere, because even with fuel surcharge, his rate per mile has never reached that.

I'm sure there are drivers that do make this program work, but when they have the drivers sitting as much as my neighbor does and various other things I won't bother to list, this lease/purchase program is certainly NOT as easy as David would have drivers believe. They could tell him that himself, if he ever answered his phone calls or returned his messages.