up untill two weeks ago was grossing about 3k a week just between Houston and Dallas and Tulsa. that's not much but when you think it's only about 350 mi a day so my fuel cost is only about $1300 it's the same money I netted at my last company running over 5k mi a week and only going home once a month.
My old co screwed me out of $1000 which was my truck payment. so I had to hit the road. went up to MN and back in 4 loads last week and got a good paying load to California this week.
now If we had a way to make these #### loads get confirmed maybe I could get out of here. I have no desire to run around in CA. 4 loads back to TX, none are confirmed
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Discussion in 'Schneider' started by blue T, Jun 11, 2011.
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Aren't loads coming out of Cali a bit on the cheap side as well?
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ya, lil bit. I got GOOD money coming up here tho. and out of houston believe it or not.
if I had my reefer I could get about $8500 out of here right now -
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the loads are all listed off the scac/scnn network. most are schneider loads some aren't. the price listed is the rice to the truck. I get 65% of the load and all the FSC. you always know what the fsc is so its not hard to know what the gross is but to be honest I prefer to not know. As long as it's good enough for me I'm happy. When I start dealing with the gross rate vs what I get I start obsessing about how much i'm giving up and I start thinking of going independant again
azcardnlz Thanks this. -
I'm getting 23-25% of the load, while a bit on the low side, I don't have the expenses like you do, everything is owned/paid for by the company, I'm a typical company driver. That doesn't mean I'm not considerate with idling, easy on the truck, etc. I don't like breaking things, whether it's mine or not.
The other program SNI has, I can't remember the name of it, the one where the driver has a fixed payment per mile, and gets the FSC always seemed a bit on the low side to me, but then I was always getting it confused with the choice program. -
I wouldn't run the mileage program but that's just me. I don't like other people dispatching me. I know guys on it and they like it. many make more then I do but they spend alot more then I do too because they are running alot more miles for not so much more money
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ya, it doesn't sound that attractive to me either. I'd have to figure, "It's my truck, I'll pick my own loads".
I guess a guy just starting out though has to be on that program for a year, I'm assuming SNI figures it as a learning curve. -
Any body know if you can just join Schneider and become an L/O or do you need to work with the company a certain amount of time first?
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