Schneider sucks

Listen, unless you personally have a direct contract freight setup yourself, any load from any company you work for will be Double, Triple & Quadrupled Brokered loads!!! Even load-board freight is double+ dipping going on, but you might have a better chance on getting a better rate by cutting out a few of the dippers in the rate when dispatching yourself with load-boards as a carrier.
Big mega companies with their own broker side will get the contracts & then re-broker for less to their lease side drivers(to cover expenses with the contract/broker side) & then get a percent from the driver(cover cost of the IC board operation). So you will get double dipped, but then your using their trailers & no more brokers involved.
Small companies might do the same, but if they are dispatching their lease drivers and using a load-board, then they are taking double+ dipped freight, which the driver is accepting being dispatched by the company.
Because the load-board owners who get the contract freight are taking a cut(first dip) & then brokering it to their load-boards. Then you have other brokers(double dip for their cut) who take already dipped brokered freight & try to re-broker a third time on the same board or other load-boards, the rate just goes down & then if your leased under a company who takes that freight & sets you up or you set yourself up for the load, then the company takes their percent. So your now getting Triple dipped from the original freight rate.
So if your IC and still get a good rate, your only dealing with the standard double dip, but if your with a company doing your load setup for you, your possibly getting triple brokered freight rates & still have to give a percent to the company.
Only way to get the full rate, is to go fully independent & get your own direct contract freight.
Only other better option is spot market & where your counter offer the rate to get what you want from the load & they either accept or you keep looking. Where mega companies will not budge from the rate they offer.
All this dipping is the real reason for low rates, everyone who gets their hands on the contract as it goes down the line to the actual Driver, is taking a chunk off the original rate it was contracted for.

 

Bottom line is regardless of how many brokers are sinking their fangs into the freight taking their cut, in the end drivers are booking the freight at pathetic rate levels. As long as drivers haul the stuff it doesn’t matter how many people are taking a cut. At Schneider they choose their own freight on the load board. They aren’t getting dispatched so the drivers only have themselves to blame.

The only exception is when Schneider operations tries to manipulate you into shuttling empty trailers around for them for basically free. Easy to tell them to pound sand in that regard, although they have language put into the contract that threatens fines if you don’t do what you’re told to do. Yeah, getting .50/mile to shuttle a trailer for them barely covers fuel lol

 

This is a cutthroat business you compete with mega-carriers or someone who has it down to point it's hard to compete unless your another mega carrier who will take a low ball price to stay running. I personally never ran Independent, my uncles, father even ran that but he got out years ago my uncles still do well one them does the other can't drive anymore for medical issues. Both have purchased multiple trucks had drivers run for them in his trucks. Your goal does not have yourself be carried by competition rather get away from them if you want full control, full pay and true independence. If you want them to hold your hand go company let them deal with there crap and not have to worry if the business gonna fail.

If being independent was easy everyone would do it that's a hard route to take the leasing program at best is for someone who wants see if they handle the stress and make it above water because your only home had better be your reset and near your next load.

My uncle for years never came to visit because it took a lot eventually he had to come out the truck and run it away so he could pick up more freight and have another driver take his fav truck and run it. But you best believe he only let his very best drive that because that was his baby. together, my uncles, had 30 trucks total they would not merge had they might still own it but they both eventually sold their companies one for medical reasons the other sold it means to cash in his chips at the casino basically because he knew he was either gonna keep betting and lose or take the cash and run before he loses his shirt.

 

So many people who know so little.
Eating chili out of a can tonight.

 

Less is more.....

 

Famous tombstone in Tombstone: HERE LIES LESTER MOORE 4 SLUGS FROM A 44 NO LESS NO MORE.

 

I see what you did there...

 

Watch out for gristle!

 

Do IC’s get driver facing cameras in there trucks just like Company drivers at SNI? Say it ain’t so!

 

No they don't..that's a fact