Need information about the Schneider choice program

knowing my average is of no use to you. like i said i am more concerened with being home these days than getting rich. gave.up on that dream long ago.
your in IL and im in TX. you will average way better than me just from your location. tyen it will depend on if you like to do long runs or short ones. i can average $3/mi by running 30 mi loads between houston and dayton tx. but my weekly net wont be as good or at least not any better. just too many variables, main one being you and how well you put loads together and how much you.want to work.

im 20+ yrs.in this business. always independant or small fleets. nobody could be.more scarred.of mega fleets than i was but pumpkins a good bunch of folks so far. sure there is some goofballs and they have some.funny ideas but theyre good.

last year i ran produce with my own wagon. ran minimun 800mi a day. i grossed a ton of moneh, way more than my gross here. but my net was.no.better and thats what counts. its not how much you make but rather how much you can keep.

 

well i will tell you that two of the guys i was in orientation with didnt last long. one lived in FL and if you know anything you know to stay out of florida unless its spring and you have a reefer. heck sni flat out told us to just stay out of fl and to stay north of houston in tx. in fact if you book a load into fl now they require you to book a load out. lots of guys were loading in and deadheading out. sni looks at the flow of trucks and finds loads to put on the board according to the truck volumes. i guess they got stuck with a bunch of loads in fl and nobody booked any. they ended up deadheading company trucks from ga to haul them cheap old loads.

the other guy best i could tell was always chasing the highest rates and like i saod before ue kept finding himeself in very cheap freight lanes. there is usually a reason if a load is paying drasticly more out of any uea. generally its going where there is no freight or extreamly cheap freight. so he'd end up sitting and usually still hauling for free to get out

 

i think i stated that i average about $1.50/mi. loads out of tx are cheap. i am more concerned with being home and my trk payment is only $1000/mo. generally i take home $1200 a week just running tx to ok twice a week. im home every day and i only sleep in the trk twice a week.

i could definatly do better if i went up to the midwest and ran around. in fact i may just be doing that this month. i just failed my dot and i need to put 4 tires on to get it to pass. i need to replenish that money before christmass. been trying to not replace them as i have been trying to replace the trk but its looking like im going to be keeping it awhile now.

 

sni isnt great getting west. once you get out there you end up running up n down ca cpast and its hard to get back east. you can get there out of tx pretty easily. there is almost no loads on the board for wa/or and utah is cheap. there is loads to western wy out of houston every week for good money. i wish i could find something ot there worth hauling back. ive spent the last two years running the northwest and southwest. i miss it sometimes

 

The thing you need to do is call and speak to Landstar's BCO Utilization or Recruitment, and do the same for Sni. Both seem from the outside and inside in LS' case to be good companies to pull for. It's totally up to you. The biggest thing you need to realize is as an O/O with either company, you and you alone decide how much money you make.

 

you know the kinds of trucks they offer under the choice program. and what the price and payments look like.

 

You'd just have to call corporate and talk to them.