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

screenshots. evidence. unless this latest was written into the contract how they are doing it now.

 

Ever been sitting in Laredo, with 10 IC's in the break room trying to book loads, and who knows how many others out in their trucks?

You see that "driver already assigned" multiple times before you finally get a load, LOL.

I see talk about freight tanking, but from what I am seeing in recent weeks, we seem to have more loads available lately.

 

Everyone will hate me, but I typically just go home. Normally, it is less than 48 hours, and I will have my next load already assigned to me. If they don't want me to take the trailer, they will take the "pickup empty" off of me. Otherwise, I pick up and empty if it is there, and go home. If my next load is a scrap paper load from walmart, I will actually take the empty over there on my way home, and just bobtail back in when I am ready to go get the load.

If it is going to be extended time, I will bobtail home. I just put 99999 in for the trailer ID and go. In this case, I will already have my NAT and NAL set to when I plan on getting my next load, so if they want me to do anything specific with a trailer, I leave it up them to pay attention to my NAT and NAL and let me know ahead of time.

I'm not playing the trailer games. I have had one time where the sent me to a specific location to drop my empty trailer. My delivery was only a couple miles from my house, and the empty trailer location was also only a couple miles from my house. Got to the location where they wanted me to drop the trailer, and they wouldn't take it because their pool limit was already full for Schneider trailers. So, as I normally do, I took the trailer with me.

 

Mickeyrat next time it happens I'll screenshot it for ya.

I've figured my way around it for the most part.

 

So now more drivers will leave and come to SNI, if it's so bad WHY do all these megas keep preaching DRIVER SHORTAGE and keep HIRING?

 

They're doing it a) so they can track movements and garner 'meta data' and b) because they frickin can. SNI does a lot of things that are 'not quite right'. To some people our core values are watch words to live by. To others they're just words on a page they have to pay lip service to.

 

forced dispatch makes them employees, no?

 

it's not forced. you can refuse it if going home. no fine. i do it all the time. if over 100 miles to home, they have to find me an empty within 100 miles of my home.

 

I thought you could get fined if you refuse a trailer move?