Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Out west the best lane I see is CA to AZ
I've seen loads pay $2.50+ to AZ
Coming back will generally be about a $1 though.
Averaging $1.50 all miles running back and forth on that lane looks realistic based on the board.
Or you can stay within CA and do fine it looks like. Kind of like the Northeast as long as you don't wanna leave you can work well.
You can do okay out west but no way you can pull off $1.80+ all miles doing anything out there.
Midwest and Northeast you can. I averaged over $2 this week

 

Short loads and staying within good markets is how I've found to make the most money.
I could knock out 3500 mile weeks out west and earn less than I could doing 2000 mile weeks of short loads in the midwest or Northeast. That's the strange part about being on %

I know it plays with my mind a bit.
Because in my decision making I think.. well I'd enjoy to drive here but then I'd be driving for cheap. vs I effing hate going there but I'd earn a lot.
Then after a few good loads I feel spoiled and only want to run at a high rate vs losing patience and going crazy from driving in areas I hate which pay well.

The question is how much BS are you willing to put up with to earn the most $?
If it was only about making the most money I'd probably never leave the Northeast and just run regional there but there's only so much of that I can take before I want to drive my truck off a bridge lol.

 

In short the recruiter lied to you and I'm sure other drivers will agree with me in that rates out west suck vs pretty much everywhere else. I won't go beyond that in details here publicly because I don't want to open the flood gates on my thread again lol.

 

Terrible.. the west is terrible.
I do not suggest joining choice is you want to run out west or if you want to go home a lot.
As far as Utah.. there is nothing from the midwest going there.
There's $1.20 freight from Colorado going there.
From Utah the very best loads I saw went to Texas and one to Ohio each for $1.20 something.

From all I looked at if someone ran out west maybe they can average $1.30
$1.50 if they stay within Cali.
While it's I guess better than being a flease driver with Swift or any other mega there's just not really any money out there.

Me personally if I wasn't 110% sure I could do at least $1.50 all miles I wouldn't have joined here.
I'm doing way better than that but that's because I stay where the money is.