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

I'm assuming you bought a 70" condo then? The 72" mid-roofs have a dump in them for the tanker setup.

 

@sadwar what kind of mpg's are you getting and how do you run? Any idea what kind of rpm your turning at 65 or 70's?

 

I still have my 2016 FL Cascadia with the AMT DT12 transmission. I get around 8mpg average usually around 1400 or so rpm driving the speed limit usually....

Roll on...

 

@sadwar sorry wrong guy, lol.

@TheDudeAbides

 

I got a 12' Columbia, 12.7L, 58" midroof.

 

Is that the stupid poster they have hanging in Obetz?

How DARE you want to work less than 6 days a week!!!

 

Unless you don't allow yourself to be tracked.

 

Very well said. I got a 2012 Cascadia (used) when I started the choice program. Drover it for a year, did not have one problem with it. With the money I was putting back after paying myself, I could have had it payed off at the end of the 2nd year, giving me a totally paid off truck that was only 3 years old, and less than 500k miles.

I felt I needed a new t680 though, so got it, and spent 1/4 of the the first year with it in the shop. Gave it back to Schneider, and went out yet again to buy a new truck, only this time it was a glider.

If I had it all to do over again, as much as I love this t660 glider I am driving, I would have kept the stripped down Cascadia, and it would have been payed for right now.

That adds up to a lot of wasted money on trucks that I didn't keep, and it was a foolish mistake to let that Cascadia go, especially after somebody else made a year's worth of payments on it before me.

1 truck, bought new, should easily last a person 15 years, factoring in one inframe. That same truck should take you no more than 4 years to pay for, giving your more than 10 years of running high profit with the truck, and plenty of time to put back for your next truck if you feel the need for a new one at that point.

 

If I was one of the guys with no house payments, family or any of that stuff I would have a custom glider built so fast it would make your head spin. Pay it off in 5 years and you still would have 15 years of reliable service. It's not unreasonable to expect 2 million out of a truck you payed 150 grand for. It's amazing how good a 600 mile load looks at 1.50 when you have no payments and your truck isn't in the shop every 6 weeks. If light duty car and trucks were in the shop all the time due to government mandated emissions problems the general public would be outraged.