Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!
Discussion in 'Schneider' started by freightwipper, Jun 1, 2015.
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Last winter I stayed North as much as possible but left whenever a bad storm was coming.
That's right, no dispatcher can tell me to head into freaking ice storms anymore. Screw thatDominick253 and TennMan Thank this. -
And southwest? lol never
Midwest and Northeast is where all the money is and I frequently pull $2,500. Can do $2000 being extremely lazy.
If I push myself I can do $3000 or more if the good loads line up.
$2500 is my weekly goal when I'm out 7 days so if I hit that then it's all good. I'd rather enjoy myself a bit instead of knocking myself out working.Dominick253 Thanks this. -
Then when I talk to dm's, and other drivers that are leasing at Prime they say the average take home is $800-1,000/week working 7 days a week and averaging 2,500-3,000 miles a week. The only way to make anything close to $2,000 a week is to train or team drive.
I agree that reefer rates are higher and I should make more but when I sat through Prime's review how your business is doing class, the average gross revenue per mile in that class was $1.20-1.35/mile. I had the highest gross revenue per mile at $1.75. I'm just not getting a huge amount of miles. Plus Prime takes a socialism approach to how they assign freight to drivers. You may have a nice high paying per mile load and then your next load will barely be $1.00/mile because they gave the other high paying load out of your area to another driver because he has a low paying load before. They like to spread the wealth out among everyone so that basically all the lease guys are averaging the same per mile.
So you can see why I'm looking at the ic program and asking all these questions. I don't want to be at the mercy of the "planner", whoever that is, and some computer that thinks it knows best. I've thought about going back company but I like the freedom of taking more then 4 days off even though I stay out 6 weeks or more at a time. If I wasn't a lease operator I wouldn't have been able to get the time off to go to my great aunts funeral and family reunion 2 weeks ago for 6 days. On the company side I would have lost my truck if I was going that long and would have to wait to get another one.
I don't go home much or have a need to go home since home is my parents place right now and they don't want to see me that often anyways. I want to take home $2,000 a week on average or more so I can pay off my debt, and save to buy the tractor at the end of my lease and pay cash for a house in a few years. I'm not going to do that at Prime with how little that pay.Dominick253 Thanks this. -
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Prime is Reefer.. and reefer rates are higher.
Plus Prime supposedly pays 72%
$1.20-$1.35? really?
What's going on over there is the highest paying freight they're giving to company drivers and the worst of the worst loads they're giving to you guys.
There is no freaking reasoning why you should be running that cheap pulling a reefer even out west.
That's just ridiculous!
Anyways if you don't mind heading east and staying in the midwest or Northeast as long as possible you can do far far better than you are doing over there.
Check my numbers.. go through the threads of others and check theirs and you'll see.
Plus unlike reefer with appointment times and stupid lumpers you can do drop and hook freight here and knock out as much work as you want.Dominick253 and redoctober83 Thank this. -
So , what are we going to jump FW about today?
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As for what I am running now, my rate after the 72% is $.150 a mile all miles empty and loaded, which is much more then he average lease driver makes.
I have no problem running in the midwest and east to make the most money and then possibley even just fly home when I want to take some time offor if I can find a good paying load head back to Seattle to see the family.
I just have plan out how to make this switch and minimize my total down time and start up time.Dominick253 Thanks this.
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