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

If I work 7 days and dont clear above $2000 after costs.. well it just dont happen.
If i dont hit my $2500 goal I'm upset with myself.

It's not as hard as some make it out to be. Just gotta stay in the good areas and do loads that aren't fun because they pay more usually.
Now when i have to go home or a specific place all bets are off, goals are out the window.
If i wanted to be home every week or even every other week my income would be a lot less.
I've noticed that people that complain a lot about not making money are the ones taking big mile, light weight freight and avoid big cities and go home a lot... well helllooo no wonder why lol.

Only thing now is no longer can i pull off big money weeks. In the good ole days [which werent too long ago] every so often I'd get $3500+ weeks and twice went over $4000. Nobody believed me but i posted the proof.
There just ain't enough good loads to get lucky like that anymore.

Bare in mind just cause someone posts something doesn't mean they too can expect to earn that too, everybody is different.
I rarely go home and do endless short heavy loads in the same areas. Many people arent willing to live like that.
Drivers that stay in the Northeast earn more than me but i would have a nervous breakdown if i had to always be stuck there lol.

 

You live in a good area... as long as you're cool with never going west of PA or south of VA you'll do fine. Trying to leave with the cheap rates is what can bite you.

Drop/hooks usually are smooth sailing expect sometimes on weekends when the customer doesnt unload trailers on weekends and they run out of empties.
Live load/unloads is what screws up my weeks more than anything.
Cant do 3 loads in a day when that one live load you trip planned 2 hours for suddenly took 7 hours smh.

 

Yup sounds about right.
Though there might be a couple spots at that time in the blind spot row, if u wanna roll the dice and hope a Swift truck doesnt tear off your front end

 

Looked it up, thank you

 

Oh yeah, back when things were better weeks like that were possible.
Not easy but possible.
Not they're not possible.