Schneider Choice Program versus Landstar?

I used to have a great weekly run from Milwaukee to Miami. I tried and tried to develop some kind of freight out of Florida and failed miserably. If you can't dead head out of FL what do they put in those vans - sailboat fuel? SNI won't lease trucks based in Florida.

 

That's the only place u can't dead head out of with sni if u book a loss in u have to book one out the loads are usually crap coming out but every now and then u can find a diamond in the rough

 

I was talking to one owner at lanstar and he told me he averaging $200k/yr he live in fl and he don't run outside fl, all his loads run around fl. I have no proof just his word

 

What kind of "choice" is "not allowed to deadhead out of FL"? More I read about SNI the more I'm glad I didn't make that mistake a year ago. Their fuel discounts are lousy for such a big company.

 

The choice not to go into Florida lol

 

Whats landstAr averaging pet mile on a haul? Hopefully 2.00 or more I wont run for less?

 

If you won't run anything for under 2.00 per mile, you won't survive here, at least not with a truck payment. If you own your truck outright, you might survive, but you'll be sitting a lot.

There is some freight out there for over that, but I'd say less than 20%. A majority seems to go for 1.40 to 1.80 or so, from what I've seen so far. I'm pretty new here, but doing quite well considering everything, and I have a payment on a brand new truck. Sometimes I'll run a load for 1.30 to get me to a longer load that pays 1.90. As long as I'm making a profit, I'm doing fine. Dry van rates have always been the lowest on the totem pole, unfortunately.


EDIT: I should point out that the rates I quoted above are typically before fuel surcharge. Forgot to mention that.

 

If you keep taking $ 1.30 loads none of us will ever get better paying loads .Brokers the one making dough.not the O/O truckers

 

Only other choice is to go back to being a company driver or quit trucking altogether. Not dealing with company BS anymore, and trucking is pretty much all I have. Maybe one day I'll have the cash saved and good enough credit to buy a truck and be pickier about prices, but sometimes you just have to take what you can get. Better than being homeless and starving.

Don't like the low paying loads, but my refusing them will do nothing but put me out of business, there are plenty of others who will haul them.

 

Is your truck financed through Schneider? The high side you are talking about is low. Seem like it is a revolving door on the Choice Program.