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Choice program on the West Coast - from company driver to IC

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by sadwar, Feb 14, 2014.

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  1. Mar 14, 2014 #281
    91B20H8

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    Things like this just reflect the type of drivers that SNI has, helping each other out
     
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  3. Mar 14, 2014 #282
    sadwar

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    Made it the last two hours to my drop and hook at WM. Plenty of empties too! Took my 30 and then started my deadhead over to Louisiana to pick up my loaded trailer going to Phoenix. Got about an hour to go in the morning to the pick up. Traffic horrible on a Friday afternoon. Much easier tmrw morning. Then it's 1420 miles in three days to Phoenix. Then home for the first time in five weeks.
     
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  4. Mar 14, 2014 #283
    Old - School

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    You guys are making me want to get back out there. If my wife ever gets tired of my sorry ### I'm thinking that choice program would be the way to go. I am very happy with my current job but you always have to have a plan B.
    Drive safe and the best of luck.
     
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  5. Mar 15, 2014 #284
    sadwar

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    Stuck here at Georgia Pacific North of Baton Rouge for over two hours now on a '30 min' drop and hook. Took two hours to go through trailer inspection and actually drop and hook my trailers. Now I get up to the scale house to leave and the computer system has gone down! So no BOLs. Unreal. About twenty trucks in line behind me. Of course they have no idea when the computer will be fixed.
     
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  7. Mar 15, 2014 #285
    mickeyrat

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    The upside is you are in the front of the line? How different is the detention pay for the IC side? Just curious.
     
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  8. Mar 15, 2014 #286
    mickimause

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    Ugh...hope your day got better quickly!
     
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  9. Mar 15, 2014 #287
    dieselfuelonly

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    Avoid paper mills like the plague.
     
    dieselfuelonly, Mar 15, 2014
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  10. Mar 15, 2014 #288
    Wheelwell

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    Thats for sure. As a chip truck driver I've been into a few. Longview, Wa. a nightmare. Toledo, Or. A mess with the scale being shared with impatient chip trucks weighing and dumping right next to it, and a mudhole of a yard to drive through to unload. Not to mention speed traps all the way there and if you come out and decide to go down highway 20 the wrong way you are over length, and they are looking for you. Swift's routing systems kept sending their drivers on a "Shortcut" down a back road to the coast from Salem. 2 trucks in a row stuck under a railroad overpass in a month, lol. All to get a super heavy load of GP paper. Yuk.
     
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  11. Mar 15, 2014 #289
    sadwar

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    Finally got out of the paper mill and drove 480 miles to San Antonio. Loooooong day. Already put a note on my spreadsheet next to the paper mill to never go there again. If I'd only known what customer if was before I booked the load! Of course, it is getting me to the house, so not all bad. And only 24k of computer paper headed to Amazon.com.
     
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  12. Mar 15, 2014 #290
    rickybobby

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    Paper mills are back hauls for Sni, the further south you go, the more paper mills. Did i mention i hate paper mills..lol
     
    rickybobby, Mar 15, 2014
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