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 ...

The House transportation committee released draft text of a highway bill with a bevy of trucking-related provisions.

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 ...

In a damning report, the Truck Leasing Task Force assembled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recommended that Congress should ban motor carrier lease-purchase agreements with truck ...

An FMCSA task force is pushing Congress to ban carriers’ lease-purchase agreements. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Truck Leasing Task Force submitted its final report to Congress, ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

[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, ...