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

Not good. Didn't get loaded until midnight. (8 hrs) Spent the night there, then had to do 650 miles to get it there because it was a production load. Mountain roads are ridiculous. Couldn't overnight at the receiver, so had to make a spot along the side road. But it got me out of that awful AR/OK market anyway.

 

1.70/mile running team miles is kicking some ###. Great job. It's not rocket science. No idea why guys are so confused.

 

Haaaa I wont say the company name but I built a great relationship with one of there agents...I was trying to get on that account because there warehouse wasn't too far from the house but there were no openings... Those loads always pay good and they're fairly light

 

I'll disagree. What are your operating costs? Mine are right around 60 cents. Fuel, truck, maint. I can make money on an 80 cent load. Granted I can't live on them, but beats burning the fuel for nothing.

 

That's 53.5 for a short hop to bounce you out of a bad market! Not permanent.

 

A co driver who asked me tonight about becoming an ic is the only driver idling here tonight at Edwardsville...it's 61 degrees here...

 

Loads not confirming killed my week too.

 

Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. I averaged a whole 37 mph today over 10 hours. So much for spending tomorrow night with my grand kids. No Bills on a Relay, Flat tire, and I drag the 95 to a Loves and SEM says can you make it the 38 miles to the OC...NO but I can drag it back up on the interstate and you can send road call. It took them 3hours to send approval to Loves to change it. Traffic just horrid. I'm now going to be almost a whole day late on this load. Best part trailer just had its yearly inspection yesterday...I know they just make sure the tires are DOT.

Also, my 2 cents on FW and the discussion of being able to work both boards. Hell NO!! A team could plant themselves in a hot area and kill it and us solo's. While I think it sucks there's no loads for 200 miles. WT F that's BS on Schneiders part. Lowest paying freight I ever took .89 but I live in Denver. But I have deadhead all the way to KC and no I won't drag your trailer.

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave

 

No kidding.

 

Why shouldn't they open up solo loads to team IC's. When I ran teams as company driver we pulled plenty of 400-600 mile loads. When we delivered in Vegas we always got a pallet load going to Omtario. Picked up lots of Walmart loads in eastern PA to MC