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

Thanks for the input Mr. Respectful
I am sharing my negative experiences here along with the positive so pull up your big boy pants while reading.
It's only been two times I've HAD to go get repairs where there was no way around it. There's been other times I had loads pulled because the tandems were missing more than one pin. Other times I called in and had them pull a load because it was heavy and I couldn't slide the tandems to make myself a legal weight. Sometimes I would tell Schneider there's no empties at a location because the only one/ones there had broke tandems and would dead head to get a working trailer.
The list goes and on dude.
There has not been a single week I've worked where I didn't have at least one broken tandem trailer.
No BS and no joke.
It is by far my biggest complaint about Schneider.

 

lmao!
I don't make $4 a mile.. I'm usually between $1.75-$2.20 running between 2100-2800 miles a week doing mostly short loads.
Don't get me wrong I'm still silly at times.
When I talk about the positive people blast me for not talking about the negative enough.
When I talk about the negative I get blasted for that also lol there's no escape.
Just sharing my feelings and experiences that's all and yes when I see my big pay checks all the BS doesn't really matter anymore.
I blew half my day yesterday due to a load shift if I was a company driver I would have been soo pissed but I made $3 a mile on the load so whatever it's no big deal. I can afford BS when I'm not running for cheap.

 

I have a sledge hammer and f that I don't take trailers to be fixed either unless I'm stuck with no choice.
Schneider isn't paying my fuel or me by the hour while I baby sit a trailer.

 

Sorry guys but I didn't go to a trailer tandem repair school, nor does Schneider have one in orientation.
That would have been more helpful than the endless hazmat videos and tests they make you go through in class when you don't have a hazmat lol.
So nobody taught me how to pull apart and rebuild tandems on POS trailers that were manufactured back when I was in middle school.
As far as "not trying hard enough".. I do everything in my ability to fix it. When I get to the point where I demand a load to be pulled because of tandems that means I wasted fuel to a shipper and will waste more fuel going to a different shipper to take some freight .... cheap leftover freight Schneider didn't even want to give to their company drivers. You all know how much I hate cheap freight too lol.
Nor do enjoy blowing fuel and hours to get a trailer fixed somewhere else.
I do everything I can to avoid those situations and fix it within what I know and what tools I do have.
And again this is only when I book a preloaded trailer. I never knowing take MTs that are screwed up.
It's only been the TA9 series trailers I've had these issues with, none else.
Just to give another example there was one had I picked up a trailer where the pins wouldn't release so I hammered the crap out of the pins and taaada they released. I felt so relieved!
So I slide the tandems and the guess what.. now multiple pins were stuck again but this time not popping out!
Tried to get them out but nope they weren't budging.
So I called Schneider and told them the trailer isn't legal for me to take due to the pins and I had them pull the load off me.
And then was stuck having to book leftover crap freight after that.
There was one time the only empty left was one with screwed up tandems.. I didn't know at the time because well I didn't care to check because my next load I was picking up was a drop and hook with the bills in the trailer.
So when I got there I saw another IC at this shipper needing an empty so I told him it's all yours.
After hooked to my load and ready to go he comes back to me and asked me if I knew about the screwed up tandems.. I was like huh? uh no.
He showed me one pin wouldn't release and was stuck. He told me he always drives with the tandems all the way up to save on fuel MPGs.
Anyway I went on my tandem rant for a bit and this freaking dude was like I want to show you something.
I went under the trailer with him and he showed me the process of removing a tandem pin.. as in completely taking out a pin from the trailer!
He said "well I only need 3 pins to be legal so whatever."
My tandem stories can go on and on and freaking on man it's ridiculous!

Being it's supposedly to "easy" to fix and have "Yet to pick up a trailer that I can't slide the tandems" PLEASE pretty please enlighten me how so?
If it's soo easy it's shouldn't take much to explain.
What do you do when the pins won't come out?
What do you do when the pull handle won't pull all the way out?
and etc?
Anything using my truck and a hammer I've already tried.. it doesn't always work.
Man I've hammer the crap out of soo many tandems while cursing lol.

As far as in the past not one time have I ever had an issue with trailer tandems before. When I was with Crete all their trailers were newer and in good shape.