[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lease-purchase deals differ from standard truck leases from firms such as Penske Truck Leasing Co. or Ryder System Inc., which lease trucks directly to carriers. Such trucks are usually operated by ...

Short of holding a square dance in a minefield, there can’t be many situations as fraught with risk as establishing a lease-purchase program to help build your capacity with grow-your-own ...

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 ...

Bill targets carriers that take financial advantage of drivers. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — Legislation has been introduced banning predatory lease-purchase programs used by trucking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...