Figure this deserves a thread... So I'm on Schneider choice and I've done loads back to back going 20 miles (drop and hook both ends) paying me $318 EACH. Also did a Lancaster, PA to Tannersville, PA which was about 105 miles which paid me $476. So I've done I guess what you could call "hot short loads" and did them without any problem and got paid what they said. Now I see a load picking up near Chicago going to Gary, Indiana.. live load and a drop (which turned out to be at the terminal). 42 miles and total revenue to the truck $836. No joke... Kinda didn't believe it but heck I've done high paying short loads before but nothing like this. After all they said in orientation "the rate is see is the rate you'll get" so I figured I'd go for it with a bit a of deadhead as well. So I get to the shipper and wait hold up.. this is a reefer plant! Okay I sign in, they tell me to set my reefer at 50 degrees lol.. I tell then you know I have a dry van right? After a few minutes they said "oh yeah okay" and sent me to a door. Took over 5 hours to get me loaded and then the bills said temperature controlled and they told me to sign next to "maintain temperature at 50 degrees". I said again "this is a dry van not a reefer, no temperature will be maintained". They said "we know, we know but all our bills are like this". Okay... So whatever I was over it and got out of there. I'm 99% sure Schneider screwed up on the rate.. I mean when I checked it said the fuel surcharge was $200 for 42 miles lol. Now the big question of the day is will they try pull a fast one over me and change the rate when I'm due to get paid or pay me what it said on the load I assigned it and completed the run? We shall see...
If the product freezes and there is a claim you are one hundred percent liable no matter what the shipper verbally said. No way I would of signed that Bill as is.
What he said wipper. Once its on your wagon, its your problem; the dock guys couldn't care less. You could go back there and breathe on it every once in a while...
Tannersville is a drop 'n hook facility, where they do a cross dock operation. No telling how long it will sit out there in the yard.
I could be wrong but I was always taught if it's on the bills you better believe it needs to be correct. Or else we could just bust open trailers and apply new seals without any regard to what's on the bills. If the bills say maintain at 50 degrees and the product freezes (or gets too hot) because it's in an uninsulated dry van Schneider IS going to throw YOU under the bus if a claim is filed or there are problems with the receiver due to the product not being the right temperature. Kind of hard to believe you signed the bills without consulting the company first. Or at least getting clarification on the reefer load in a dry van deal. What us the value of the load? Will your cargo insurance cover that or will the insurance company say "negligent driver " and come after you if #### goes South? unloader
i'm assuming schneider has load boards that work like most others. you pull up loads for your specific type of trailer. not just loads in general for all trailer types. and, does schneider even HAVE refers? maybe he hauled a van load, from a refer plant. i've hauled loads on a flatbed, from places that ship temp. specific loads. and normally use refers. it is what it is or the load would have been brokered refer trailers only. on another not. i've hauled $900 loads going 90 miles. from landstar. one saturday, i took 4 loads from landstar. from A to B. dh back to A. paid $11 per mile loaded.
Just my opinion, but I think enough red flags were raised here that it might have warranted a phone call to ops to say "So I'm on this load that is relaying to the yard in Gary, where the load will sit stationary until the next driver shows up to pick it up, and it says to maintain 50* yet I'm pulling this non-insulated orange dry van". No way in **** I would have signed for that on the bills. COVER YOUR ***.
