Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!
Discussion in 'Schneider' started by freightwipper, Jun 1, 2015.
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Hey that guy Jerry on YouTube, is he the real deal or is he just exaggerating.. cause he sure makes it look easy lol
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It seems to me you left $2.5k on the table this week because you didn't want to DH 500 miles? Did I miss something? You would have had a $10k week but because of a $400 load you now have a $7k week. Seems to me that $400 was more like $3k. If it was me I would have bounced 500 miles.
But we all know I'm not at SNI so I probably don't understand what happened. Honestly you all work to hard for me. Your doing team now and avg 1000 miles a day. I would only work 2 days a week then. Gee not a bad idea.
But really FW don't let me give you too hard a time. I like that you are trying something new and willing to share with everyone your ups and downs. I hope everyone gains from what you and others share here.spyder7723, TennMan and Home_on_wheels Thank this. -
That's what being greedy gets you.
Sometimes you gotta just look big picture not right here right now.redoctober83 and drvrtech77 Thank this. -
Thought I explained fairly clear but I guess not.
First of all i have no idea where you got the idea that I will have a $7k week. I was a little over $7k yesterday with like 4-5 hours left of driving time for the day.
For me to end the week at $7k that would have meant sitting rest of the day yesterday, sitting today and then sitting tomorrow. Nowhere have I said I'm going to sit the rest of the week so I don't know where you got that from.
As far as those loads go at a moment I had the opinion of booking a load going into the Northeast, a load leaving the Northeast (.80 load) and a load going to Iowa. The .80 load would have brought me exactly to the load leaving going to Iowa that paid good.
If I did those loads I have have been a little over $10k for the week on Monday with a live unload at noon.
I was ready to book them, started pulling all three loads but the .80 load got taken and there was no other option leaving the Northeast unless deadheading 500+ miles soooo I decided against booking the other two loads. In other words I did not go to the Northeast.
A lot of people here think deadheading 500+ miles out of the Northeast is a great idea, way I look at it is even if I got $2 going in and had to deadhead 500+ miles leaving then all in all that trip would have me at running at $1 a mile all miles.. probably a little less before doing the Iowa load.
$1 a mile all miles going in and out of the Northeast might some awesome to some but it does not for me.
If I wanted to run for $1 all miles (which I don't) there sure are a lot better ways of doing so rather than going to the freaking northeast.
Soo I figured I would do something else and now today we are.
That's pretty much how all that went down.CJndaTruck Thanks this. -
So what did you end up booking to keep moving?
I'm sure you're not just sitting so how close to 10k did you come. -
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Those of us advocating bouncing 500 miles are working under the idea that we got enough going in that after a 500 bounce we are still averaging good coin, far far above a buck a mile.
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500 miles@10 mpg is $100... Yea I'll dh out
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