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

ArmyGuy · Sep 23, 2015

Uh oh I see popcorn posts in the near future

almostthere · Sep 23, 2015

freightwipper said: ↑

Well it appears it's time for me to share as to why I've been soo quiet and stopped posting.
If you go back to the last page of comments or some of these posts I just quoted that in a sense is very revealing.
I pretty much haven't said anything in the past month and some dude comes in here thanking me for my sharing and makes a general comment not directed towards anybody specific about some ignorant attacks I have faced previously.
Suddenly others speak for me as why I stopped posting when I haven't even said why myself I stopped.
Also and importantly revealing Tennman posts a disgusting ignorant comment about me in which made me extremely disappointed and the respect I have had for him is now totally gone.. just like how any positivity from the Schneider threads has been gone for some time now.

I shall explain and point out specifically why I feel this way.
First of all from the beginning this thread has been about my experience here.. the good, the bad and my feelings. I've said repeatedly my feelings aren't right or wrong but simply my opinion from my own personal experience here.
The goal was to be open and specific...
I feel this thread has gotten the attention it has because of how open and specific on things have been posted here...
I searched endlessly for details and specific first hand information about this program before I came.
So I felt the way I'd post is in ways I hoped to see in the past.
However over time I have realized that I have been too opened and specific about some things which was a mistake and I'll get to later.
From post #1 on this thread it was my intention to share my negative experiences and frustrations as well here.. if you actually go back to post #1 you'll see I'll listed out negative points about working here that I felt at the time.
Throughout I have been extremely opened... off the top of my head from Schneider screwing up appointments, customers holding MTs hostage leading to cancelled appointments, making mistakes by going into cheap rate markets, POS trailers, Schneider being too cheap to hire enough people to answer phone calls, Schneider posting WRONG information and even rates sometimes on load board... I mean we can go on and on here. I even talked about multiple being stuck in the Northeast running regional for a week plus because I refused to leave for all that cheap freight which is in a sense sharing a negative experience as well.
My complaining has been opened to the point of this exchange between me and Tennman:

Which isn't the first I had to reply reminding people I'm here to share BOTH sides of my experience here:

My point is anybody with half a brain or not in magnificent state of ignorance knows if you want to "recruit" you don't bring out bad things rather you butter everything up and only speak positive about what you're trying to recruit them to.
When you call recruiters at a trucking company do they tell you negatives and problems with the company you'll face while working there? NO!
So to say this is a recruiting thread is ridiculous as I've exposed negatives and bashed my own job since post #1 along with posting things I'm happy about which is fair and what should be posted in this forum.. both the good and the bad.
Tennman himself said in the past:

I actually don't think you have half a brain or are in a state of ignorance... I actually think you're smart and have added a lot to this forum. I think it's just you picking on me with more off base bullying BS which you and many others have done to me as well in the past.
Which is really sad and disgusting.... this is not the same Tennman I knew of from last year.

All of which now brings me to answering why I've been so quiet.
Before I joined choice and in some time after the Schneider section was a really wonderful to read and be apart of.
Drivers were light hearted, kind, positive.. very helpful and sharing.. along with overall a great sense happiness from drivers here.
I felt blessed to come across such a section after many other areas of this forum being negative and many unhappy drivers. I gained great respect for many of the ICs here and thanked them in my opening post.
Over time however things have greatly changed.....
The Schneider section has degenerated into oozing negativity.
Yeah I tolerated many middle school style BS attacks on me for some time but it goes beyond even that...
In other Schneider threads it's just constant negativity all time and I see members attacking other members as well.
It's just not a pleasant place to be and post anymore.. let alone to simply read.
I'm all for sharing positive and negative but man it's really become totally negative here.. not just about Schneider but personal ways as well as with attacks on others.
At one time I felt grateful and proud to be apart of the community and the co-drivers here.
Now I feel ashamed to be even associated with all the crap that goes on here.
From being bullied all the time in my thread.. to a constant stream of negativity and attacks by others on others Schneider threads.. man it's really depressing!
Then it became an evident reality for me that Schneider is when Dogals revealed it and a few days later Stevep.
At that point I was just like WTF am I even going here?!?
It's simply another thing that's a negative... when I talk crap about my job and I know my job is reading it thus I know nothing good can come from it. It's as simple as that and is a reason being extremely opened and specific could work against you personally.
In other words even though yeah things upset me here and there's negatives here I still love and value my job so pissing off Schneider isn't in my best interest.
I thought I have nothing to gain here... It's just trolls trolling me, being exposed to constant negativity and now knowing Schneider is stalking these threads.

Sooo I got to the place where I was like screw this I'm done.
I was sooo done with everything man.
I even asked the mods to delete this thread which didn't happen but that discussion I won't make public.
Although I will say they were very supportive, helpful and understanding.
Then others started messaging me.. calling me concerned about me and expressing great gratitude for the ways I've helped them and etc.
Sooo that is what kept me here though limitedly.
Outside of this forum I have contact with other ICs whom of which we've share our experiences, gave ideas and offered ways to help each other even though we're "competition".
All of which I greatly value and appreciate, you know who you are.
My point is we all have things to add for others and ways to learn and help from each other.
This random dude Nel4you went through what looks like my whole thread cause he thanked a lot of my posts and then left a comment thanking me for sharing.
Gratitude, positivity and sharing even if simply by words can make a great difference in peoples lives.
As for me I still feel like I have the best trucking job on the planet and I'm doing very well still.
Yes there's negatives, I mean come on this is a mega carrier of course there's going to be some BS but there are huge positives as to working here I can't get anywhere else which hold a great value to me.
I hope some take something positive away from all this.
I hope this Schneider section will one day turn back to what it once was.

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I know this is a Schneider thread and I don't work for Schneider anymore but I've got to reply to this. This is the internet...in your post you sound like a whipped puppy. I think you're off base. I've seen some of your comments on other threads that have come off as highly sarcastic and smart arse. To call someone else out for speaking their mind is hypocritical.

freightwipper · Sep 23, 2015

TennMan said: ↑

I will give anybody on here if FW will also my driver number and they can call in and ask who's the poster child and favorite at the recruiting office.

I've had 1 in 11 years and he left then returned before I ever benefitted from it.

I will say this I'm not the one who ran off and hid as soon as you realized your exposure to SNI. I have no reason to lie about anything. Calle ignorant if you will however I am consistent.

You can't take criticism..... grow a pair.

Truth be told you probably quit posting because you can't handle someone questioning your bs.

I normally wouldn't care what I'm called however coming from the great FW I look at it as a badge of honor and will only come harder from now on. Gloves are off time to really call it how it is.

So come poster boy post those lies I'm ready to eat.
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So much for getting an apology from Tennman..

Instead more BS...
You very well know I took all the attacks and BS on this thread for months with no problem.
It was getting more and more disgusting in total in this entire Schneider section.. anybody can read through the threads and see for themselves.
You pointless attacking me on my thread and making up BS when I haven't even said anything in like a month was the final nail in the coffin revealing how truly this Schneider section has hit rock bottom.
You totally dodged everything I posted.. I exposed you out by quoting you which revealed where the BS and lies are truly coming from.

freightwipper · Sep 23, 2015

almostthere said: ↑

I know this is a Schneider thread and I don't work for Schneider anymore but I've got to reply to this. This is the internet...in your post you sound like a whipped puppy. I think you're off base. I've seen some of your comments on other threads that have come off as highly sarcastic and smart arse. To call someone else out for speaking their mind is hypocritical.
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Oh yeah I've enjoyed being silly and sarcastic.. it's fun and light hearted.
There is however a big difference between that and attacking someone repeatedly and spewing lies and BS about them.
I wasn't calling someone out for speaking their mind, I was calling someone out for spewing BS and attacking me when I haven't even said anything in a month.

TennMan · Sep 23, 2015

The offer still stands.

FW how many recruits from TTR have you received?

Will you honestly answer?

I doubt it. And if I'm wrong I will openly apologize. See I can take as well as dish it out and I'll even apologize if I'm wrong.

Bottom line is you quit posting same time stevep1977 was fired you changed your profile pic and we speculated on why.

Your feelings get hurt and you attack me which I am fine with.

TennMan · Sep 23, 2015

So it appears you only want those who agree 100% with your view or those who are willing to not question you or call BS if they know different to post in your thread.

You're beginning to sound as if it's always someone else's fault. Never yours must be a progressive liberal.

But I'll let it ride you don't make or break my day so enjoy your thread and continue to spew the stories you wish.

Just don't do it while driving.

bullhaulerswife · Sep 24, 2015

The bickering will stop. I've issued one thread ban, I hope I dont have to use it again in this thread.

freightwipper · Sep 24, 2015

The staff member is right, it does need to stop. I'll make the effort not to engage with toxic comments and focus on this being a good thread.

scythe08 · Sep 24, 2015

SNI has been well aware of the SNI to run section here for a while. I was threatened 2013 when I first started, for some stuff that was going on here and they knew who I was.

I hope you keep posting. This place has definitely gone downhill, but sometimes that just happens. Its hard to keep a forum's going. A lot of guys have also gone to FB as well.

He'll, I've been called a recruiter too several times.

freightwipper · Sep 24, 2015

duddie said: ↑

Man this is the internet... It's a public forum... And there should be no way sni knows exactly who is who on here... If they do your profile is revealing a little bit too much.. This virtual cb.. Take it for what its worth.. No need to get emotional. Who cares anyway the rates are so low everywhere this forum will be ask that's left soon lol..
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Schneider does know lol
They have trailer tracking and they also know where we are.
So for example when people post hey I'm at the Pilot at so and so with a Paper load then bam then they can triangulate all that together.
What is cool is that in the mobile app under work assignments you can click on a trailer and see on an overhead satellite view map where it is. On my next assignment I checked today and I can see exactly where in the yard the trailer is sitting so that's pretty cool.

HalpinUout said: ↑

Man, you must be a rich man to afford a viper... That's gonna run you around 80k right? $500 to ship a car isn't to bad... You figure with the cost of a oneway plane ticket an the gas to get back its probably about the same...
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Nah man I'm getting a used one so it's not that bad.
My living expenses are super low so it's not that big of a deal. No wife, kids and my house payment is as much as my cell phone and internet bill because I have a room mate so to say being I'm rarely home.
This mobile internet costs a fortune though.
As far as shipping vs driving and flying it would cost me around the same.
If I drive it would take me two days of not working.
If I ship it I'd have to take a day off to be there when it arrives and plan my loads around that which isn't very profitable.
So is some BS no matter what I choose idk what I'm going to do.

What I am going to do is change the way I run, I've been doing very well without running hard so I haven't really been running hard and enjoying time between work BUT I'm still with a truck. I'm now leaning towards running harder and taking more time off away from this truck.
It is nice not to be a company driver anymore....

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