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

While these shorts loads in the Northeast look good on paper... it's backfired on me all week pretty much.
2 different days of 5+ hour live unloads, one cargo claim needing to be relayed. Can't forget that one load I told Schneider I didn't have time to go on an MT hunt and needed approval to Bobtail in from the customer... nope they need trailers. So I went on an MT hunt then got the load.. arrived late for a live unload... rejected by the customer and then had to relay that load further away than the loaded miles were lol fun times!
Today had a 70 mile load paying over $400 but it took me the entire day!
Oh well.........
I'm about ready to take my ball and head back to the midwest

 

There's negatives with any job, I've posted a lot on my thread as well.
A huge negative what you're wondering about... rates suck out west.
I mean yeah you could do okay but nothing great.
Go through these Schneider threads and you'll see others complain about running out west and you'll also see multiple drivers that live out west that leave their truck in Texas or the Midwest and fly home.
However you do live in Southern Cali which I guess the best of the worst out there.
That's as far as I know from what I've read and heard but you're better off asking drivers that have experience out there. I am not one of them. I run the midwest 80% of the time and the Northeast probably about 20%, South and out west I don't really have any experience in.
Oh and this is just van, no intermodal. So you won't be seeing rail yards.

 

a state of ignorance

 

Schneider is very anal about having OTR experience to join choice, in my opinion they more strict on that than anything else.
Dunno of anybody on choice that got on without OTR experience.