SNI CHOICE PROGRAM - Jar Head takes his Truck -" Betsy " ( Not a Lease Truck )

I dont have a problem trip planning. I drive 60mph no more no less, so it makes trip planning easy for me. Some guys trip plan on 70mph and i think thats where the problem comes in. Some guys dont bother too look at their 70hrs clock until its to late. Another problem guys will book loads for the whole week, then realize their out of hours. I think 3 loads in advance is enough time to look for another load. That booking for a whole week will screw everyone. just my .02

 

Very True. Just as a bit of proof....wait until they add a stop to a work assignment for you to drop an empty trailer somewhere other than where you are picking up a load and watch the box planners whine like babies when you say you won't do it unless they pay you for it...They expect you to just do it with no regard for your operating expense. Further, they post loads with a given weight and you show up and the load is over what you can legally haul and offer you no compensation for the miles from your previous customer or your time spent trying to pick up the load. Then they pull all your freight off and you have to replan your week....

Some of the things I have seen happen infuriates me to no end...if this was a true partnership, they would be offering to compensate you for all the time involved. In the end the only thing SNI cares about is THEIR bottom line.

Even more...the image below is something I was not suppose to get my hands on. The rates listed below are what Schneider logistics charged a customer to more a load and what National charged logistics to move the same load. The second image is what SNI was willing to pay me to haul it. I have not been able to make the numbers work for this to be a 65/35 split....So who is getting screwed? The IC of course....


Logistics to National


National to IC

 

According to the person I spoke with they were down on ALL choice drivers. Lol

 

lol. I was asked last week to save a load. I told them it didn't pay what I wanted and to call me back when the added more money, all I heard in response was laughter. I have a buddy at landstar that pulled a sni load 400 mi round trip, they paid him just shy of $2500.00. Go figure

 

Mad, no. Clear vision yes. I finally took the orange blinders off. The images above are from a load I was suppose to haul last month. While I did not haul the load due to the customer, I was involved in trying to pick up the load and the nice lady from logistics sent an email to everyone involved as to why we did not pick up the load, she copied me in so I had proof of the issues while trying to get a VNU for the load.

I went to Tremont, PA two days ago on a load I had been looking forward to for 3 days. 2k pounds for 282 miles just short of $900 in revenue. Showed up and the load had to weigh 43K. I cannot pull that weight. My truck is to heavy, nor would I have ever booked a load like that going into West Virginia. Had to argue to get the load pulled and in the process they had to pull all of my freight off. Cost me about 3 hours of time to replan and 70ish miles to get from my previous customer. Radius for the deadhead was 50 miles. Distance listed was 52 miles... It simply ticks me off that a company as big as SNI cannot get their collective crap together and do things right.

I have heard of many loads that we haul on a regular basis being picked up by 3rd party carriers for 3 to 4 times what SNI will pay their contractors to haul it. SNI is not going to lose money so where is all the extra money coming from? I am truely starting to believe that they doctor their books so if we ever ask to see the load confirmation and the rates it all matches....