Cant get loads... Sitting, not making $

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by mom, May 19, 2016.

  1. Eeyore05

    Eeyore05 Medium Load Member

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  3. tazman74

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  4. Eeyore05

    Eeyore05 Medium Load Member

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    I hear that a lot...
     
  5. Germangirl

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    Schneider is one of the largest companies. It's not true that they don't have freight. I wouldn't switch jobs; but I would talk with the fleet manager's supervisor or their boss, to get a new fleet manager.
     
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  6. Starboyjim

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    Schneider, one of the major transportation combines in the world, doesn't have freight out of the midwest for a 24 year old driver with a perfect record? Hmmmmm......once again, something just doesn't add up.

    Like this phrase, for example: "He has had a lot of breakdowns..." Oh, really? I wonder, could those breakdowns somehow be involved with the short miles? It's true that sometimes a driver is in the wrong place at the wrong time and it's hard to get rolling. But.....Schneider? Heck, they have all the freight, don't they?
     
  7. Starboyjim

    Starboyjim Road Train Member

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    I go to Des Moines (Urbandale) every time I set out from home. I've never had a problem, maybe 20 trips there. Deadhead 150 miles to Hamburg is about the most I've had to work for a load. Just sayin'.

    Omaha, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Davenport, , Effingham, Chicago - no freight?
     
  8. x1Heavy

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    I read this first post with a sense of this is so common. Shorting miles.

    Let's see. Listen carefully here. I had a company short my miles progressively after a minor incident in which a load was late. I fell back onto my savings kept mouth shut and kept trucking. Miles get shorter.

    Finally I was pulled into headquaters and asked straight out am I independently wealthy? I was not supposed to be able to keep driving this long on short miles from dispatch.

    I quit. Went to state unemployment and sued the company for benefits citing consistent short miles which prevented me from maintaining a physical and mental ability to go do the work required of me when it was required of me. There is case law going to the supreme court in Maryland based on that.

    WHen a dispatch of 15,000 tractors and two times that number of trailers in the big pumpkin across several different and distinct divisions, tanker, flat, intermodal, van etc etc etc etc say there is no loads. Take your savings, vacation time turn in three weeks notice and get the *&^% out ideally STRAIGHT Into a new orientation which should be a company hiring you on good terms after leaving the pumpkin.

    I did that several times in my life and was very successful. I actually was on the phone to JBH two days before I showed up in Little ROck with a orientation that week. SO parked one company, say good bye and thank you sirs and drove home then to little rock and back in a new truck with new everything and possibilities.

    Smooth.

    That is my suggestion. Not JBH. Look around see what is out there. Important to cut losses by being smooth and not combative or confrontational. There is going to be 50 drivers out of school waiting to take your tractor out of orientation next week. Don't worry or stress about that.

    By the way quitting that one outfit the way I did carried a secret price. I got blacklisted from the steel industry flatbed work. It's been 20 plus years I think it's either a life blacklist (I pulled DAC and it's whistle clean as of two weeks ago) or it's expired in statue of limiations and unlikely to be brought up because I only need 7 years of employment history which is zero in a big truck since 2009 anyhow.

    It's amazing how these things work out. 31 years on the big road erased to a zero on a sheet of paper.
     
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  9. nikmirbre

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    Fyi: Schneider /jb/werner /swift combined haul just %5 of Freight. ......Lots of companies to choose from. ......
     
  10. Friday

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    I don't believe this post. At all. Been running around Des Moines all week. There's a ton of freight here. Mom is a troll stirring things up imo. Feel free to come find me. Sitting at Des Moines until tomorrow morning. Need a 34 with all the DRIVING I've been doing
     
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  11. mickeyrat

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