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

It is interesting. The Intermodal IC guys running out of Norfolk and Savannah are running some of the most ragged equipment I have ever seen lol. Much less collision avoidance systems. My only guess on the hiring freeze is SNI is working on a pick your freight model for that division. They are scared of their own shadow when it comes to lawsuits and IC'S. From what I hear the word IC is about to be banned from SNI terminology.

 

Why yes they do have some ratty equipment. I can't speak to the choice board for Intermodel, but I will say this. There are rumors, but in the end, I don't think it's going to work out. Too many issues and different contacts. Currently there's 3 different contacts for IC's in Intermodel. ( x-town, local & regional, that's Chicago btw) An IC can only be on one of the contracts and there was talk of going to an all in one contact, but so far that never came about.

 

Those of you that have been here awhile, I get it. You guys were making bank, then rates fell off. But that happened everywhere. Schneider doesn't control rates nationwide. Every company got hit when oil prices tanked.
On the flip side I came from a company where I was making barely 1.20/mile. Now I'm anywhere from 1.50-1.70 all miles. In no way am I bragging, I'm just saying to me things are way better and it doesn't seem like the sky is falling. So many people are complaining, but nobody is leaving. I bet you can go on any of the company threads, Mercer included, and find guys complaining. It's just the way it is everywhere right now.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Schneider is out to cut anybody's throat. I think like every company they're just trying to survive in a tough industry like everybody else. Companies make more with o/o's pulling freight anyway, why would SNI want to cut their IC's throat? Just doesn't make sense.

 

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Wake up driva

 

I'm awake as can be. You change your mind about LS?

 

I could be wrong about the whole choice thing on intermodal. Just guessing based on what I am seeing. Look at tanker. From the outside looking in it seems like SNI is perfectly willing to starve those guys as long as they have "choice". I never understood how they could make it work on tanker and from what I read it doesn't.
I have zero experience on the intermodal or tanker division so I am admittedly talking out of my ###. But having worked for this company for awhile it just seems par for the course.
Just watch, all divisions will be "choice" and drivers will line up for it.

 

I saw some IC s pulling some Dollar General trailers in Wisconsin yesterday

 

No I'm doing well

 

OK good. You've been pretty quiet about it so wasn't sure if you pulled the trigger or not. Care to share your experience so far?