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.

  1. Opus

    Opus Road Train Member

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    Tech is right......midwest, OH, Il, IN MO, is a sweet ride at the moment. I'd take that .90 ride to OH and cruse around for a few days.......jus' sayin'. Sometimes it's better to suck up a low paying load that puts you in a good market. I've done it a bunch, you just have to work at it.
     
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  3. Drifter42

    Drifter42 Hopper Heartache

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    Shhhhhhhhhh!!! LOL
     
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  4. mickeyrat

    mickeyrat Road Train Member

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    no, under the message tab couplle options below the freeform option on the drop down menu to alert sem directly with an issue. for either the tractor or a seperate one for trailers. Doesnt get immediate service but it does get it into the system. More extensive list than the dvir list of defects.
    You should also get a set of red tags from an oc or shop to tag them, and also alert shipping or the guard shack of a location.
    freeform relies on whoever opens it. No garuantee they are forwarding this info.
     
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  5. redoctober83

    redoctober83 Road Train Member

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    Or you can take pictures and email them and the location info on the trailer. The answer the email faster then the phone.
     
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  6. drvrtech77

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    Dang...Freight is scarce..I've haven't seen it this bad..it could also be the because a major holiday is around the corner..im,glad I'm booked thru Friday am and then off for 9days...
     
  7. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    Yup glad I'm not the only one feeling like there's been less loads.
    For for a while now I don't even waste my time logging into the load board on weekends, especially Sundays.
    It's all leftovers at that point.
     
  8. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    I'm still in the Northeast, in some sorry part of New York.
    Screwed myself over Friday and sat the whole day thanks largely in part of being picky and over confident.
    Ran Tues-Weds-Thurs at 1120 miles for nearly $2700. Took 6 loads though. Everything was running soo smooth and great. I felt things would keep rolling good and I was wrong, my pickiness lead to a point where the load board just died and lead me to sitting on Friday.
    Saturday morning Schneider threw up some same day loads, ones I've noticed they throw on at the last second a lot on Saturdays and went back working.
    I'll be at $4398 on right about 2200 miles for the week, that's with one day off and only working maybe 4 hours tomorrow, could still squeeze another load in tomorrow.
    So whatever I guess I'm still doing okay. There's good days and bad days. Just gotta accept I can't be as picky these days as the market isn't great.
     
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  9. duddie

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    Back at the yard for orientation.. Haaaa feels good to be back lol
     
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  10. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    nothing like being back to the Schneider Mud lots with Potholes that will swallow entire trucks [​IMG]
     
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  11. duddie

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    Lol not the yard I'm in lol but yea like Laredo lol
     
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