Schneider's home run program?

I am on the home run program, works well for me. They try and run it out on Wednesday and back on Tuesday but well freight doesn't always go along with the plan. I have been out till Wednesday or Thursday but with that being said I still get my 7 days off. I get the same miles (when I'm working) as I did OTR. Just remember its really a pert time job as you do lose the week. By running W-T your get one full weeks pay and two partial weeks.

 

Granted this was in 2004, I did homerun out of Dallas. Three of us shared two trucks. At any given time, one of us would be on our seven days off and the other two would be out running. We luckily had two nearly new trucks among us and treated them as our own taking care of maintenance issues on our time instead of passing on to the next guy. We left CB's, fridges, XM radios, driver supplies, and basic tools in both trucks, just swapping out clothes and bedding. Usually Wednesdays is when we went home or came back out and I would run 5000-6000 miles in those two weeks.

It can be a good set up but finding two other drivers is the hard part. Most people will say they care about the equipment but they really don't and you'll end up spending a few days having the truck fixed and you'll notice them even more beat up than the last time you saw them. Oh and then the whole personal hygiene issue with so many people completely against showering it can be really gross living in someone elses funk. As you can tell I knew my co-drivers and I still had to be convinced to do it.

 

I average about 400-450 miles a day, just keep up with the mac 18's (your best friend) You are slip seating, so the truck goes out again when you bring it back, a lot of the times it has a load on it and you finish it out. Some places have three drivers to two trucks, we don't run that tight of a program, you get one of the trucks that is in the program, most are newer. You just have to get use to packing so you can make the move in & out of the truck without much pain. I carry a warm/cold cooler (never have used the warmer) a crock pot along with my cb and of course my computer and personal gear. I liked having my own truck but like the time off better.

 

You get paid for your dispatched miles. Pick up a load in Iowa going to Boston and its your time to get off, you are sent to the OC that you would be out of, one driver paid from the pick up point to the OC the other driver from the OC to the delivery.
Other drivers may be getting more miles but I tend to run in the early AM (Military thing I guess) so I am a little conservative on my mac 18's
The pay scale as well as some of the address for the OC's seem to be big secrets. Go figure. You should be right around .39 cpm I do like getting paid for all dispatched miles. Loaded, mt or bobtail. Hope this helps.

 

It sounds like now they just have a whole bunch of trucks and they just put you in what's available.

As for the mileage, if the load is from Buffalo New York to Laredo Texas and you live in Dallas, The driver that picked up the load would be paid from Buffalo to Dallas and the final driver would be paid from Dallas to Laredo. Homerun or not swapping loads, I think Schneider calls them relays, is a frequent occurrence.

 

Three guys in two trucks was called a pod. Now if you guys just have a pool of trucks then you don't need two other partners. Is that correct? That would make it a lot more accessible to more people it seems.