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

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by dieselfuelonly, Nov 1, 2013.

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  1. Jan 23, 2014 #561
    nawarra1

    nawarra1 Light Load Member

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    Hey, DFO. Would you, please, check how the loadboard looks on Long Island. I will park my truck near my house. Zip is 11747. What's about empty trailers? Are there lots of them there? Thanks.
     
    nawarra1, Jan 23, 2014
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  3. Jan 23, 2014 #562
    dblr

    dblr Bobtail Member

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    Greetings DFO
    I have beening reading your story throughout, love it. Left east coast this summer. Sold house in Maryland and moved 3 kids and wife to Bend Oregon. I acquired my CDL in May and got on with TWT (refer) out of Spokane Washington. Chinatown turned me on to them.

    Anyway I had never been to California. I mostly do Oregon, Washington and California with some Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico mixed in a bit. It has been a mild winter, only had to chain up 1 time.

    By all means try to get a run or two out to this neck of woods. Much nicer people and the scenary is stunning. The mountains are not hard. The bad part Oregon & California are 55mph though I run 60 and have had no problems.

    Stay safe, productive and happy
    Cheers
     
    dblr, Jan 23, 2014
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  4. Jan 23, 2014 #563
    dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    Here is the message we get before getting on the load board now lol

     
    dieselfuelonly, Jan 23, 2014
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  5. Jan 23, 2014 #564
    dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    Today I started looking at the load board, really the only option was to sit for the day and then grab some 5am pickup Home Depot load and take it up to NC... not something I really wanted to do considering I usually roll out of the sleeper no earlier than 9am lol. So I sat around and looked elsewhere and eventually 2 new loads came up headed to PA, under 20k, paid good, and there was a load headed out of the same area of PA headed back to NC that is only 5k lbs. Good enough for me! Booked those 2 loads.

    Headed off on a 240 mile deadhead to the pickup. The GA to PA load pays 1.80 a mile from pickup to delivery, 1.37 a mile when you include the deadhead, not great, but, empty trailer and driving at 60MPH makes for pretty darn good fuel mileage so thats OK with me. After running 2 lane state routes all through Georgia, finally got back on 85 and made it to the Charlotte OC tonight. I wish Georgia had more freight right now, it is probably my favorite state to truck in - quiet, flat, good customers, good roads (even the backroads) and no snow, lol.

    Anyway, tomorrow I'll make the run up to the Carlisle OC and spend the night there. After that I'm going to call in and see if I can deliver the load to NC early. If I can, I'll turn and burn and make NC by Saturday evening or Sunday morning. If not, I'll hold on making the delivery/pickup (I'm delivering to and picking up from the same customer in PA) and take a restart at the Carlisle OC, then deliver and grab the load headed back in NC Sunday evening or Monday morning.

    Hopefully, though, I can get back to NC over the weekend for a little time at home. We'll see. If I can deliver early and run some recap hours and squeeze an extra load in, this will be a very good week. If not, it'll still be an OK week but not great.
     
    dieselfuelonly, Jan 23, 2014
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  7. Jan 24, 2014 #565
    the mary trucker

    the mary trucker Light Load Member

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    I have been told we will have most trouble with mt"s now and in July due to inventory. It seems as long as the goods are in the trailers in the yard they do not have to count it into their inventory. Once that is done they will unload them and have plenty of mt"s.
     
    the mary trucker, Jan 24, 2014
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  8. Jan 24, 2014 #566
    moosc

    moosc Road Train Member

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    Your driving to working to hard to run out of hours. Hope your only showing 8 mins load unload n post Trips. Don't work over 9.5 hours every day and you'll be able to run for ever.
     
    moosc, Jan 24, 2014
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  9. Jan 24, 2014 #567
    rickybobby

    rickybobby Road Train Member

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    I only show 5 min for load and unload and pre and post trips. Been doing that for the last two years.
     
    rickybobby, Jan 24, 2014
    rickybobby, Jan 24, 2014
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  10. Jan 24, 2014 #568
    Chopper1776

    Chopper1776 Light Load Member

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    I don't show any time for load or unload. They told me that 20 minutes isn't long enough to uncouple then couple and pre trip because they can't do it that quick. It's not my fault they aren't go-getters anymore, lol!
     
    Chopper1776, Jan 24, 2014
    Chopper1776, Jan 24, 2014
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  11. Jan 24, 2014 #569
    moosc

    moosc Road Train Member

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    Tell that to mr dot and see what u get.
     
    moosc, Jan 24, 2014
    moosc, Jan 24, 2014
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  12. Jan 24, 2014 #570
    Chopper1776

    Chopper1776 Light Load Member

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    I didn't realize you have to show time for it. I guess I better start now. If I did everything how Schneider says to do it, I would lose 10-15 hours a week.
     
    Chopper1776, Jan 24, 2014
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