Schneider chat room - Closed see new thread linked in the last post

Gotta love drivers that are in a hurry so im passing a swift truck and another truck comes speeding up behind the swift truck mind u there is no room for him for him to catch up.to swift then hop infront of me in my lane so he gets all pissed off and is cursing and flipping me off LOL he could have just used the fast lane for all that and tge funny part is he exited about 4 miles down the road


See, my damie, Pootie Tang don't wa-da-tah to the shama cow... 'cause thats a cama cama leepa-chaiii, dig?

 

here at the charlotte oc to switch over to ic choice program anyone want to tell me the pros and cons and who is a goo dbl to have from here thnx

 

Choice program has dbl?


See, my damie, Pootie Tang don't wa-da-tah to the shama cow... 'cause thats a cama cama leepa-chaiii, dig?

 

Nope I didn't get the message. But like I've been saying if your eta Nat are used incorrectly it will hurt you. They are moving to a pefronance base system that is more like a report card.

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There really isn't a dbl

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cuz you choose not to stop at one of the 10 or so TS on I-80/94 east of there?

 

Noticed that in the performance metrics Message was sent out Monday.

I don't have issue with that.

But I do have an issue with the "order" of submission of our ETA.

We should not be held accountable for information based on incomplete load information.

I can be 90%+ on my shipper ETA. With little effort. But I can not even begin to promise 10% on delivery until I have ALL the required information.

Information which is missing in a pre plan. This information is only accessible when the load becomes active.

 

its like tying one hand behind our back. I also dont like not getting directions BEFORE you make it active.
I'm learning which routes they will likely want me to take and which routes are faster on my own. Like instead of U.S. and state routes, interstate may be some miles longer but actually save a little time because your speed remains constant.

 

I've got my route before its active. I use the address provided, and put it in my GPS.

Schneider routing still leaves a lot to be desired. Although I do activate it, just in case the customer entrance is different from mine.

I saved over 50 miles and 20 minutes by using my GPS over Schneider routing on a load last week.

Their route would have placed me over 10% OOR. It was back roads all the way. But that's not always a bad thing.

 

I set my ETA at 1330 today, which gave me plenty of time since I was going to be there between 12:30-13:00. Get a call (while I'm driving) from my substitute DBL (my DBL is out on beveavment). Asks when I'm going to be there so he can adjust my NAT (the system kept resetting my hours to 0 for the 11, 14 and 70 hour clocks, which I complained about). I said I'd be there between 12:30-13:00, and my NAT should be 13:30.

Well, he sets my ETA to 12:30, I get there at 12:50 (20 minutes late which is a service failure based on my ETA). I was there between 12:30-13:00 now wasn't I? LOL

Well, to make a long story short, I artificially put in 12:44 as my arrival time, but still, talk about getting set up for failure if you don't work around the screw up. What's stupid with this whole ETA crap is I had until 17:30 to drop the load. These customers (Home Depot in this instance) don't give a crap when the load arrives, as long as it's inside the service window. This stuff in that one qualcom message about how important the ETA is to our customers is laughable. It's important to SOME of our customers. For them to service fail us on a customer with a drop window is plain stupidity.

And yeah, it's really pathetic that we have to sit there and figure out all of our ETA's up front before we even accept the load. What difference does it make if we set the ETA before we even leave the prior load? I have been setting my ETA to the consignee once I leave the shipper and deal with all of their delays so I can actually put in an accurate ETA one time, instead of putting a random guess in before even accepting a load that's barely accurate.