THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Rickybobby I think you're right, not gonna mess with that place again. I had been there before (as a company driver) and it was just a drop and hook, they seemed friendly and fast so I figured a live load wouldn't be bad. Like Dipschitt said, LESSON LEARNED lol.

I was there for 7 hours until I finally hit the outbound gate. What a joke.

On the bright side, claims called back and told me to just dispose of the toilet paper rolls that had damaged packaging or whatever. There were 6 boxes of 4 packs each, each pack with 12 rolls. Throw that away? Nuh uh. 288 toilet paper rolls stuffed up in my upper bunk. And its the good **** too, DOUBLE PLY EXTRA SOFT. After I deliver in Garysburg tomorrow I'm running by the house and dropping off my toilet paper hoard stash and I'll be good to go for a LONG TIME.

I think in general lesson learned about PA - not really worth my time unless I'm only going to places right off the interstate, and its a drop & hook or a customer I KNOW is going to unload fast (of which I know none of in PA). After the C&S fiasco it took me an hour and a half to get the 40 actual miles to my next pickup. Jesus. 110 miles total for the day.

BACK TO THE MOTHERLAND tomorrow. Thank God.

I'm back at Carlisle tonight. If you need some toilet paper you know who to look for. LOL. A bit OOR, but whatever, gonna take familiar roads back home, and not waste my time getting anywhere near Baltimore on 95.

 

To be fair, maybe I should have called them earlier to give them a heads up about the delays. I don't know, on one hand yeah I probably should have, even though as far as I knew I would have had time to make the pickup had they not taken an hour to count freight and me have to deal with claims on the damaged boxes.

On the other hand, they would have probably pulled the load from me and reassigned it to someone else, leaving me stuck up here without a load back south, which I REALLY wanted to avoid.

I pick and choose my battles with Schneider. Overall, when I don't run into issues, I don't have to deal with them at all. Ever. They leave me alone, I leave them alone. I just need to get back to the south LOL.

 

Got loaded and sitting in Carlisle now.

 

Yeah Carlisle itself is a nice town, we have a OC (terminal) here that is one of my favorites, good food, pretty laid back people and a decent shop. I'd come up here more often if there were easier loads headed back south, so far I haven't been able to figure any patterns out for getting me out of this area without grossing 79k, lol.