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

It is good. Your right. As i just book a cheap relay(holding head in shame). I'm a sucker for a relay. At least I have more than .0005 seconds to think about it though. They just stare at me tempting me all day it seems. And before the rate police come out its not that cheap.

 

I make 2.20 minimum a mile going in. 175ish average going out. Over in Texas my luck is worse.

 

Yep. I have seen loads go off the board then five seconds later get a load alert.

I have never gone for less then 1.90 and never farther south than Orlando. When fuel hit 2 bucks a gallon I just turned and got the #### out. Seems I remember back in orientation if you take a load in you have to take one out. Not in the contract and they have never called me on it.

 

I don't think it is that simple if you live in a bad freight area and
you have to be home every week. We need a minimum pay law
for drivers and IC. For example .60 and $2 per mile. Not happening
off course.

 

I want better rates too but the last thing this industry needs is more regulation. Unfortunately until we see a real uptic in the economy which takes drivers out of trucking rates won't increase, just look at how many guys continue to sign up for lease programs even though hundreds of people are telling them they will fail.

If we really organized there would still be drivers out there yelling look I got $1.80 freight now! There are just to many low cost freight options now, I mean when Swift moves into reefer to compete with CR England you can't expect good things to happen...

 

Well, if we were properly compensated, many of the current
drivers wouldn't be drivers, because the expectations would
be higher and they wouldn't be able to meet them.
Unfortunately, there's no professional driving lobby in
Washington.

 

How about OIDA?