Schneider owner ops...

1800 miles a week as a lease/op is not a lot of miles. If you have the loads you should be able to run over 600 miles a day. If you run for 5 days that's 3000 miles a week.

 

Depends on the tuck and other expenses...I have another quote for 1514 miles for breakeven with a $625 payment plus $216 maint....

 

I understand that it can be done....it's just that I don't want to run 600 miles a day....more like 400......that's just me!

 

But at the prices you get paid with your experience you can afford to run those kinda miles. I'm sure you didn't start out only running 400 miles a day getting paid 3.00 a mile owning your own truck did ya? Gotta pay your dies in this career if ya wanna make it. And running 600 miles a day for 2-3 weeks out at a time in order to make your truck payments is one way to do that.

 

I agree with you.....I did the days of running hard as a company driver.....Now older and wiser (I think) and like to take it easy a bit........but even 400 a day is roughly 2000 a week, still a good week....

 

Hello everyone I have read every post in this forum,and through quite a few on Schneider. And I have done a lease before on percentage , got paid as an o/o, had the expenses as a o/o. So when you say you need to run say 1800 miles to break even, how do you figure your break even miles ? I just went off what the load paid me, then I would take the expenses out of that figure,to decide if it was worth taking. Also what I would like to know is,when you see what the load pays on the computer, is the figure before or after the company takes their share? And last question, how bad is it trying to find an empty ? I have seen on some post in Schneider,that say its nearly impossible to find one. If this is a scattered brain questions , my apologies , I got a lot of things running through my mind, trying to decide which way to go, since I am going broke working low paying local gigs. Thank you in advance for any information on Schneider

 

I would think with as many trailers as Schneider has it shouldn't be hard. But I'm sure there will be times when it's difficult depending on where your at in the us.

 

You need 1400 miles to just break even??? That doesn't leave much wiggle room for things such as days off, breakdowns, slow weeks etc etc. Good luck to you, but with overhead that high you might be set up for quick failure.

 

WHAT?!?!?! Not being an jerk here but , Am I missing something? 1400 miles is a run from Ga. to Pa. and back, if you cant run more than 1400 in a week there is something seriously wrong. I ran more than that usually as a local driver delivering rental equipment within a 200 mile radius. I guess I am just use to putting 600-700 miles in a day,I mean you got 11 hrs driving time,use them. Also if you play coffee counter cowboy, or them cherry machines, then yes it would be hard, To make it you got to keep the left door closed, and the right foot down, I guess I still think old school but, I get paid to move freight,not sit at a counter and talk .

 

I'm a SNI o/o on percentage. I suppose the 1800 miles is a good average of what it would take to break even. But as you said it depends on what the load pays. That is what I look at. Total revenue to the truck and how much it pays per mile just to double check my figures.

The amount you see on the computer when you pick the loads is what your getting paid. Schneider has already taken out their's.

It really isn't all that bad to find an empty. It just depends on where you are running. To be honest I very seldom have gone out of my way to get an empty. When I was on company side it seemed to be worse. Last time I had a problem I had to go 150 miles out of my way they paid me $150 extra for that. Anything over 50 miles they pay $1.00 per mile. I have only had about 2 or 3 empty chasing events sense FEB 2013. Most of the time there is an empty on my way to my next pick up. Occasionally they will just tell you to bobtail in if nothing is available.