Trucking Fleet Owner’s
Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing

Research and Financial Strategies for Fleet Owners 

 

Overcoming Challenges and Improving Profits

Research and Financial Strategies for Fleet Owners

Table of Contents

🔗 Cash Flow
how our programs solve your biggest problem

🔗 Data Visualization
2019 vs. 2023 sleeper truck fuel economy

🔗 Data Visualization
60-month vs. 33-month trade cycle maintenance costs

🔗 TEL – our mission, vision, and values

🔗 Equipment Costs
have retail truck and trailer costs become unsustainable?

🔗 Purchasing Problems
avoid negotiating two transactions (equipment + financing)

🔗 Data Visualization
Cost comparison of TEL lease vs. Traditional purchase

🔗 Used Truck Headaches
avoid unexpected repairs and downtime

🔗 Partnership with TEL
industry leading fleet leasing and fleet support programs

🔗 Meet Jacob Brazier
VP of TEL Fleet Leasing 

Table of Contents

🔗 Cash Flow
how our programs solve your biggest problem

🔗 Data Visualization
2019 vs. 2023 sleeper truck fuel economy

🔗 Data Visualization
60-month vs. 33-month trade cycle maintenance costs

🔗 TEL – our mission, vision, and values

🔗 Equipment Costs
have retail truck and trailer costs become unsustainable?

🔗 Purchasing Problems
avoid negotiating two transactions (equipment + financing)

🔗 Data Visualization
Cost comparison of TEL lease vs. Traditional purchase

🔗 Used Truck Headaches
avoid unexpected repairs and downtime

🔗 Partnership with TEL
industry leading fleet leasing and fleet support programs

🔗 Meet Jacob Brazier
VP of TEL Fleet Leasing 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 1

The trucking industry’s best solution
to your biggest challenge – cash flow

One of the biggest problems trucking companies deal with:

Older trucks in your fleet cost more to operate. 

Negative consequences of an aging fleet: 

The TEL Fleet Leasing Solution: 

Bring down your operating costs and improve cash flow by lowering the average age of your fleet. 

We offer an industry-leading 33-month trade cycle, which is the exact time the average cost per mile begins to escalate. 

The successful results you’ll get with TEL Fleet Leasing: 

At TEL Fleet Leasing, we’ve stripped the unnecessary complication, confusion, and friction out of fleet leasing so that when you work with us, your business will be easier to run. 

We make it easy to add more trucks, improve your fleet, and bring down equipment costs. 

And that’s that. I hope our value-based approach to business is refreshing to you. If you’d like to meet our team and talk shop, call us at (423) 214-3910. We’d love to connect. 

 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 2

Data Visualization – 2019 vs. 2023 sleeper truck fuel economy

Our Research and Financial Strategy for Fleet Owners 

The question most fleet owners struggle with or can’t quantify is, “How much am I losing per year on fuel cost by not updating the 4+ year-old tractors running in my fleet?” 

Over the last two decades, TEL has made it their mission to collect and analyze the data from over 100,000 trucks running in trucking companies across America in various applications. We have taken this knowledge and built the founding mission of TEL’s Fleet Leasing program to cultivate and sustain transportation entrepreneurs across the nation. 

In today’s environment if you have twenty-five 4+ year old tractors running in your fleet, it will cost $268,000 more, on average, to run the equipment versus new tractors per year. 

This data all goes into building the right trade cycle to run your business.  So, what is the right trade cycle?  Let the people at TEL use their industry knowledge to help you determine that cycle and create an advantage for your fleet. 

What could you do with an additional $268K to run your business? 

 

I hope you found this Data visualization interesting. If you’d like to meet our team and talk shop, call us at (423) 214-3910. We’d love to connect. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 3

Data Visualization – 60-month vs. 33-month trade cycle maintenance costs

Our Research and Financial Strategy for Fleet Owners 

Why is determining the best trade cycle for your business so important? 

It’s simple. Every trucking company owner is looking to haul more freight with less equipment. The ability to understand the impact that different trade cycles can have on your maintenance cost and downtime can help you optimize your operating expenses and equipment utilization. 

Imagine the impact it would have on profitability if you could save up to $700,000 every year in maintenance costs during the lifecycle of your trucks. That’s exactly what analyzing and optimizing your trade cycle can do. 

Here are a few more areas to consider when thinking about your trade cycle:  

  • Number of working days per year as your equipment ages?  
  • Recon cost for disposal at end of the life cycle?  
  • Driver retention and satisfaction? 
  • Advances in technology as your fleet ages? 

 

The goal is to find the right balance of new vs used equipment operating in your fleet at any given time to promote the best overall operating environment for increased uptime, cash flow, driver satisfaction, and fuel economy. TEL’s Fleet Leasing program was built for truckers by truckers, and we want to dig into the numbers with you to build a plan that fits your needs. 

All data from our research goes directly into building the right trade cycle to run your business.  So, what is the right trade cycle?  Let the people at TEL use their industry knowledge to help you determine that cycle and create an advantage for your fleet. 

In today’s environment if you have twenty-five 4+ year old tractors running in your fleet, it will cost $268,000 more, on average, to run the equipment versus new tractors per year.

I hope you found this Data visualization interesting. If you’d like to meet our team and talk shop, call us at (423) 214-3910. We’d love to connect. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 4

TEL – our mission, vision, and values

When you have challenges in your business, our mission aligns with you… 

🎯 TEL Mission – Provide innovative solutions by delivering unparalleled value and world-class service and support. 

 

When you need a partner you can trust, our values align with you… 

💎 TEL Values – Integrity. Respect. Loyalty. Innovation. Support. 

 

When you want a partner to help you achieve your greatest aspirations, our vision aligns with you… 

📈 TEL Vision – To be a dynamic incubator of next generation transportation entrepreneurs. 

 

What breed of entrepreneur are you? 

There is a special breed of transportation entrepreneurs who have huge aspirations and goals for their trucking companies. And when you’re in this special group – when you’re “all in” – you want business partners who are “all in” with you. 

If you have huge aspirations and goals for your business, TEL is the “all in” business partner you can count on. 

 

The TEL Fleet Leasing program will help you add more trucks, improve your fleet, and bring down equipment costs. 

We’re more than just another leasing company. We created a turnkey approach to fleet leasing that eliminates the complication and makes business easier. Our buying power will lower your equipment costs and our fleet support program will give you an all-encompassing toolbox of services to help you build a stronger, more successful business. 

In almost 20 years, we’ve bought thousands of pieces of equipment and helped hundreds of trucking companies grow their fleets and transform their businesses. 

 

If you’d like to meet our team and talk shop, call us at (423) 214-3910. We’d love the chance to get to know you. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 5

Equipment Costs – have retail truck and trailer costs become unsustainable?

Equipment cost is one of the “make or break” expenses that trucking companies have to work with (and one of the only they have some control over). And buying new trucks at retail presents some very difficult problems: 

The TEL leasing advantage helps trucking companies avoid the burden of buying trucks at retail.  

We discovered a better way for trucking companies to cash flow their equipment. Numbers don’t lie. Our Fleet Leasing Program was designed by truckers for truckers to protect your cash flow. The TEL leasing advantage delivers new or like-new trucks without inflated retail costs, huge down payments, or massive long-term debt. 

When you qualify for TEL Fleet Leasing you will have lower up-front costs and tailored lease terms based on your business model (number of trucks, mileage per year, etc.). We’ll help you grow your fleet and improve your business. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 6

Purchasing Problems – how to avoid negotiating two transactions (equipment + financing)

Burdensome truck financing can create major problems when the lenders don’t understand your business: 

TEL offers industry-leading lease terms and low up-front costs.  

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 7

Data Visualization – Cost comparison of TEL lease vs. Traditional purchase

In today’s environment, equipment is the third biggest expense you will have as a fleet owner. 

This large capital expense brings increased risk. The data above shows how TEL can help you leverage our expertise to decrease this risk and allow you as a fleet owner to focus on running your business. 

I hope this data visualization was eye-opening. If you’d like to meet the TEL Fleet Leasing team, call us at (423) 214-3910. We’d love to meet you. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 8

Used Truck Headaches – avoid unexpected repairs and downtime

The lower monthly payments for used trucks can be very enticing. 

But buying used trucks to chase lower monthly payments can lead to major headaches and big regrets when looking at the overall utilization of your fleet. 

Problems that come with used trucks: 

Want to build a more successful and profitable trucking company? 

Lease your trucks and trailers from TEL Fleet Leasing so you can: 

TEL offers new or like-new trucks and trailers, and industry-leading trade terms. 

When you lease trucks and trailers from TEL, you’ll get new or like-new equipment. Most of our leases are brand new trucks and trailers, but when we lease used equipment, it goes through stringent inspections, our industry-leading reconditioning process, and is always less than 2 years old and still under warranty. 

We’ve been sending you our emails to introduce you to our company and share important information that we believe will help fleet owners like you. 

If you want to know more about how we can help your trucking company, call us at (423) 214-3910. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 9

Partnership with TEL – industry leading fleet leasing and fleet support programs

Here’s the point of all of the information we’ve shared on this page… 

Fleet owners love working with TEL Fleet Leasing. 

Why? Because we offer new trucks, the industry’s leading lease terms, and the best fleet support program available.  

Because we’ve poured our time and energy into creating the ideal financial strategy to make business more profitable for fleet owners. 

We have the best fleet leasing and fleet support programs in the market, and we have the numbers to prove it. 

If you want the best fleet leasing and fleet support team in the industry working on your behalf to help you optimize your fleet age, improve your maintenance operations, and position your business for greater success than you could have imagined…now is the time to take the next step. 

If we haven’t met, I promise we will not waste your time. 

Call us at (423) 214-3910 to meet our team and discuss your business. 

If you have engaged with us in any way – through emails, on our website, on our social media feeds, in an intro meeting, anywhere – I want to say thank you. 

I hope you have noticed our passion, dedication, and integrity. And I hope we have the chance to become a trusted partner for your business. 

Trucking Fleet Owner’s Quick Guide to Profitability through Fleet Leasing
Section 10

Meet Jacob Brazier
VP of TEL Fleet Leasing

Jacob Brazier

Hello, 

I’m Jacob Brazier, and I have been around trucking for as long as I can remember. 

I come from a family that grew and sold a trucking company. So, the one thing I understand is the way trucking company owners put it all on the line to build successful businesses. 

 

When you have everything on the line, you need partners you can count on. 

I joined TEL in 2012 because I found a company that is in the perfect position to help family-owned trucking companies who have it all on the line – who are committed to growing successful businesses. 

Every trucking company needs to add or replace trucks in their fleet, but the cost of new equipment and the burden of dealing with banks to find the right finance option can take time away from your focus of driving revenue growth and building your team. 

In a small trucking company, you often feel like you’re being squeezed for every penny, treated poorly, pushed to the back of the line when it comes to maintenance, and left fighting to get your drivers back on the road making money. I know because I have experienced the same thing. 

 

As VP of TEL Fleet Leasing, my goal is to help you improve your business and increase your profits. 

TEL is more than just another leasing company. We are the truck and trailer leasing partner you can count on. 

We created a turnkey approach to fleet leasing that eliminates the complication and makes business easier. Our buying power will lower your truck and trailer costs and our fleet support program will give you an all-encompassing toolbox of services to help you build a stronger, more successful business. 

 

That’s it – I hope I’ve made a positive introduction on behalf of the team at TEL Fleet Leasing. 

 

If we haven’t met, I promise we will not waste your time. 

Call us at (423) 214-3910 to meet our team and discuss your business. 

 

If you have engaged with us in any way – through emails, on our website, on our social media feeds, in an intro meeting, anywhere – I want to say thank you. 

I hope you have noticed our passion, dedication, and integrity. And I hope we have the chance to become a trusted partner for your business.