Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

I'll be delivering a 45k pound load into downtown Pittsburgh tomorrow morning
wish me luck

 

If the appointment times are screwed up or the load isn't ready you could get out of it.. I have.
As far as the rest...
Weight you never know. I've had loads listed 40k that ended up being 3k.
Weight isn't that accurate a lot. Sometimes the max weight the load could be listed.
Most often by far my loads weighed less than what was listed.
Usually when a load says 40000.. it won't be accurate but if it's listed as 40572 then it's usually accurate.
That's just from my experience.
While rare listed loads do change and most often it's the customers fault when it does happen.
I had a live unload change into a drop while in route yesterday.
Things like that do happen but for me it's been rare.
You need a good reason for Schneider to pull a load off you after already showing up.
One time I got out of a load because the preloaded trailer was messed up, I was't gonna blow my day getting that repaired and Schneider let me out of that one.
If I show up and say I don't feel like pulling a heavy load today they won't allow that lol.

It's extremely unlikely after deadheading to get a load will you want to get out of it based on the weight.
You burn time and fuel already getting to the load and more importantly what else are you gonna do? Find a better load same day and deadhead to that?
That ain't happening because same day loads generally suck. It's leftover they didn't even give to the company drivers lol.
99% of the time I book at least a day ahead. Whatever isn't preassigned to drivers goes to company trucks at that point. I never want to reach a point where all I'm dealing with is leftover freight but that's just me.

 

Yes there's some drivers on this forum whom have done that and they post on this site.
From what I understand Schneider offers their own plates, permits and etc if you want to use theirs. You don't have to if you don't want to.

 

he's currently doing it:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ventures-mk-iii-still-doing-it-my-way.266028/