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

Lol And here you were about to rat on a driver for doing to you what you were most likely doing to him. Never be a rat no matter how bad it gets when someone is trying to be an idiot just let them go on their way. Trust me Karma is worst than any company will say or do with them.

 

Ok so there are x number of loads within a thousand miles and you say most pay 1.80 a mile but you fail to say how far within that thousand miles those paying loads are. Come on I mean its without a doubt the dfw area has decent paying loads but they're not like all great loads and also what you see is theoretical.. that doesn't include the amount of time you will lose waiting to get loaded or unloaded.. All in all its a little bit of skill and a little bit of luck. Anyone that says otherwise is on a honeymoon.

 

Well son of a b.... I bet that's where it is on mine. I'm not at the truck now, but I'l most definitely check in the morning. Never occurred to me it might be on the OUTSIDE... on my old truck, it was under the hood right next to where the bulb was.

 

That's why I didn't bother calling the police or doing anything. Eventually, he'll end up doing that to someone that is bigger, angrier, and crazier than him. I wish I could be there when some REALLY crazy driver shoots out that light LOL.

I smiled to myself after that happened, thinking if I had been carrying a paintball gun, would've been fun to cover his passenger side mirror with paintballs. Not sure I'd go through that much effort, but it's funny as hell to think about

 

The loads were from all over obviously. Stuff from the metroplex and then all the way up to 999 miles away. The rate I quoted is the base rate with fuel surcharge, assuming no deadhead to get there. Obviously deadheading reduces the mileage pay, since you're not paid for deadhead miles.

My main point is that there is no shortage of decent paying freight, and that's during the slower time of the year. But you're right in that a little bit of skill and a little bit of luck is required to succeed. You really do have to use your brain and run the numbers. But that doesn't make it impossible to succeed, it just means you have to work at it. The funny thing is that lots of drivers may complain about that, but we're some of the hardest working guys out there, and it never hurts to exercise that grey matter above your neck.

And strangely enough, freight coming out of the DFW area actually kinda sucks pay wise, unless you're only running locally (under 300 miles or so). Some of the best paying long haul freight that I've seen tends to come out of the middle of the country (MO, IL, IN, TN, etc.) But you have to watch that, because a lot of it goes northeast, which pays crap coming back out.

As for loading and unloading, I tend to avoid loads that aren't drop and hook, which a lot of them are (and it says if it is on the board). For live ones, there is a section that tells you how long drivers typically wait at that location. Most are about 2 hours or so.

You'll NEVER succeed if you just blindly book loads and hope it all works out.

 

Just google it. I googled "headlight adjustment on Cascadia" and found videos on how to do it.

 

I'm leasing. 2014 Cascadia Evolution, 3 year lease.