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

Probably not day after day. It mainly depends on where you live, kinda like everything else in this business. I do a lot like spyder, some weeks I do four or five under 100 mile loads that pay between 450 to 700 bucks. Then I may not do anything for a month by choice. I guess it just depends on what you gotta bring home. I want the most for the least.

 

Dude you did nothing wrong, duddie picked a battle with me, we don't like each other and that is that.

If you made $7k to the truck you had an awesome week, and prob did more than most IC's? Congrats bro, glad to see someone making a living with an Obama economy.

 

Saw that today delivering furniture to Superlite Block here in Phx. They have a massive forklift that will pick up 4 pallets at a time to load the half dozen flatbeds waiting out in the street.
They had a sign that said drivers must remain inside your truck during loading, then what, strap it down out in the street?

 

It wasn't a normal week. But I don't normally do LTL. Just kinda fell into my lap and worked out. Nobody should think of dumping their trailer and jumping ship. No isn't the time for anyone to be trying something with a new company. There is a reason SNI has a long waiting list.

 

The hard part about doing multiple loads a day is you get loaded in 30 min at the shipper but takes 3 hours to get unloaded at the receiver and now your balls to the wall to get to your next pickup because in flatbed world most folks like leaving by 15:00 so instead of dropping both you have to drop the next day making it almost impossible. Even if it's same shipper same receiver a nice 7 mile $550 run took all of 9 hours and I had to buy the forklift driver dinner $75 dinner to stay because he was adamant about leaving at 17:00 the day before a holiday. That's trucking

 

$7000 gross to the truck at Schneider in my experience was a once in a year occurance. Not sure currently, but when things were good, $5000 was a cakewalk, $6000 was a good week. Fuel for that was $1200-$1400 at the time (fuel was between $3-$4 then).

No way am I going to consider leasing a truck in the current market conditions. Not until next year at the earliest, but based on our current options in the presidential race trade and economic conditions are going to get worse before they get better

 

The shipper had a super forklift and loaded me in 30 min but the consignee had some kids sized forklift and it took all day one piece at a time 36 total