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

Evidently the 500 for $0.

(I'm starting to figure out why not everyone makes it on choice)

When running a team, you need to constantly be running, not sitting around waiting for great paying freight. If .80 gets you to a 1000 mile run at $2.05/ mile, that's what you do. This way you only lose a couple cents a mile instead of lots a cents a mile.

 

Here's the real sad fact even if you don't understand true averaging and that your actually paying to haul that cheap freight.

All this time you were bashing people big
time for hauling cheap and you've been doing too the whole time.

 

It absolutely will. That 80 cpm more is actually only about 65 when you figure in the extra fuel burn and truck wear.
And you don't have to go as far as that 80 cpm load goes to get to a decent paying load. He didn't say so we don't know where it went bit lets day it went 600 miles to Ohio. Instead let's say he bounced that same direction and picked up a load at about 300 or even 400 miles towards ohio paying 2 bucks back to Iowa for another money load. so what's that? Eastern maybe middle of pa? 900 miles to middle of iowa? Put in the load and unload time, plus the extra fuel burn/wear and how much did that 80 cpm load to Ohio actually net you over running scenario 2?
Scenario 2 might not even exist at Schneider, but if that's the case that loaf to the north east needed to be at nearly 3$ to make it work.

 

It's not that simple and you are smart enough to know this.

 

I used to bounce out a pa to East Ohio instead of hauling the cheap garbage and still make more than I would of hauling that garbage
We used to have some really good paying customers in East Ohio

 

If i couldn't score a good load out of wherever i was at up there I wouldbounce to Buffalo for greasy bars but that plant closed about 18 months ago. Maybe a little longer than that. So then i started going up to Massena. But then that plant all but shut down. Now i just bounce to Youngstown. And it's a long way from way up in Maine to Youngstown. Sometimes i can get something paying good in eastern pa or jersey, but it is getting harder and harder.

 

I use to dispatch a dedicated fleet out of Atlanta. I got .80 cpm sometimes better out of Florida for my back hauls all the time. Head hauls paid good going in that could afford .80 cpm back hauls. If .80 cpm doesn't cover fuel and wages your in the wrong business. Your implying then that driving empty doesn't create any wear and tear on equipment. I got 90% of my back hauls out of Florida set up as drop and hooks on both ends. IAnd yes the account made money. I left 3 years ago and they are still running exactly the same thing I set up.