Eagle Logistics Services. Indianapolis, IN

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im coming unglued, I need to regroup.....

 

Hey everyone. So I'm taking the plunge and heading to orientation on Monday in Indy. My recruiter is Christine. Im former military so I know that everything she promised me wont be true however I am expecting at least a portion of it. Based out of everything Ive read good and bad it ultimately boils down to how hard Im willing to run, duration of loads, location of pick ups and rates. The truck payment is the truck payment. No money down and freedom to walk away at anytime is a good factor for people like me testing this part of the industry out. Now with all of that being said I would like to gain some first hand advice from current drivers as to what division is better as far as getting steady freight. IE: Dry Van, Flatbed, Reefer I personally think that reefer would turn into an added expense with all the washouts and kickbacks or if the reefer unit goes down etc. So thats honestly on the bottom of my list. I drove flatbed in the Army so Im content wiith that but with me living in the snow I dont think itd be a good route in the winter when Im trying to get home. I live in Colorado and know that inbound freight for home time will be decent for dry van but outbound freight will be cheap and more than likely be beer out of Budweiser. Im wanting to stick to midwest southwest with occasional runs to northwest. Always been a company driver with Swift so freight was never an issue for me. Just cautious about the leap into O/O and the headaches and expenses that come with it. Still leary of the load board thing as well. Thanks in advance. Be safe out there.

-Will
SMIB /G\

 

Good luck you'll learn a lot.....

 

Here's hoping I learn quickly. I'd hate to be one of the many on here a month down the road posting that I had to turn in my truck and went broke doing this.

 

In all seriousness ... call IEL and ask to take over a turned in lease in the 18 to 24 month range and get your feet wet that way. You're already familiar with how they work and how to get your miles there.

Part of succeeding in business is be able to stick to it during the start up phase ... Eagles numbers barely pan out if you know what you're doing ... for a rookie it will do nothing but discourage you.

 

IEL?

 

Fr8monkey, if I remember right with Schneider finance once you're at Schneider for a certain amount of time you were able to move your truck elsewhere. I believe many have gone to Landstar from Schneider.just check out the different threads about Schneider on here.

 

It's the company you get your truck through ... Just call the number on the leasing posters around terminals, that's IEL. Or ask your DM for an IEL recruiters number.

 

If the rates we could get were higher or we had more customer freight the numbers would pan out! But alas we do not get that here,and also not everyone wants to work the northeast always....

 

I'm not sure the numbers even pan out vis-a-vis Swift ... I'm looking at having to pull 3000 loaded miles at $1.55 a mile to the truck at Eagle, to clear what I do at Swift on 2700 loaded and 300 empty and a $1.26 on all miles.