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

Fuel consumption is always on your mind..it's your biggest expense.
I'll take a heavy load going anywhere for the right rate..you just have to run slower to compensate.
For example:
Shippensburg PA to upstate NY..heavy loads (43-45K).
Miles are usually around 340-375..pay is in the $750-825 range.
That isn't bad for 6-7 hours of driving..and on top of that I'm usually coming into the shippensburg area so I'm already on a smaller load..so for a full day of driving I'm around $1000+ for the day.

The route has a lot of mountains so fuel economy is going to take a hit..but it's already paid for.

We all run different and have a different business plan.
Mine is to make as much as possible in 5 days..double loads a day where possible.
Bumping up against my 11/14 all the time..it's tiring but profitable.
I rest up on the weekend..EVERY weekend.

 

You rest up on sleep or just time away from the truck?

 

On my break I do the folllowing:
Get cleaned up
Eat dinner(do paperwork at the same time)
Call wife
Sleep

That's it..no xbox or watching movies..LOL!

On the weekends I chill..get truck ready on sunday.

 

Hey now that you mention paperwork, throughout the pages I haven't come across how the shippers and dispatchers thing works paperwork wise. Is it the same as a traditional o/o or there some difference? Basically do you run the risk of losing a page and losing a check in consequence?

 

No PW is easy here.
You have a trip sheet..add that to a copy of the signed BOL..enter into qualcomm.
Then at the end of the week Transflo them to SNI.
We get paid by the qualcomm..so no waiting.

 

"We get paid by the qualcomm" The future looks scary next will be the i robot qualcom 9000 lol

 

Yeah man..I'm waiting for a robot driver.
That way I can sit in the passenger seat all day and yell at the poor SOB!

 

Yea the whole "It's heavy, I won't run it" theory is a little overrated. After all if you get 6 mpg on a 500 run instead of 8 mpg, it's an extra 20.8 gallons, or approx 42 bucks. Are you really going to turn down that load to sit because it's heavy over 42 bucks of fuel?

 

so your gonna service several multimillion dollar mortgages and lay around the truckstop gettin morbidly obese sleeping with a cpap machine !
a friend of mine had a union equipment operator job
he figured out he was not gonna get rich on the rental houses when those hillbillys are always movin out when they get behind on the rent and he gotta spend 20 thousand getting each house fixed so he cant rent it to the next sobs
now they scrapped the mill and forced him to retire hope he is alright.