6/21/16 Is the beginning of my Schneider career!!!

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If it does a automatically parked regeneration there will be no light and the rpms will only be about 1300. If I idle all night it will generally regeneration after 8 hours or so, depending on when the last regen happened. My guess is you're stopping for the night not.too long before the truck wants to regen, you idle which puts the truck past the regen point so it does an automatic parked regeneration, then the truck is good to go all day until just before you shut down, and then everything repeats.

For your fueling compliance - if you're assigned a fuel stop and skip it and do not fuel elsewhere then there is no penalty, you're 0/0. If you skip the assigned stop and fueled elsewhere you'll be 0/1.

If you have two stops assigned and only stop at 1, then you're 1/1. If you stop at one assigned and one not designated you're 1/2.

If you fuel at an OC it counts as 0/0.

Adding def counts as it's own fueling so he sure to only add def when at a compliant stop. Whenever I have an extra minute or two and I'm at my designated fuel stop I'll put in def just to pad my score.

Once you learn all the "rules"/"tricks" hitting bonus is really easy.

 

Oh, once my Nat has passed and I don't have a load I message in. If I don't have a response within 30 minutes I pick up the phone and call. Whenever possible I message in first but if I don't get a "got your msg and I'm working it" response (at the least) I start dialing.

 

Fueling at an OC will never hurt you for bonus.

 

Fueling at an OC won't count against you, but it doesn't help you either. If you fuel 10 total times- 8 at compliant stops, 1 non-compliant, and 1 at an OC your compliance would be 8/9or 88.9%. Now assume 5 compliant, 1 non, and 4 at OCs you'd be 5/6 of 83%. If you are going to have a non compliant fuel stop making it at an OC is best as it won't hurt you but fueling too much at OCs can increase the impact of each non-compliant stop. That's why your one non-compliant stop is dragging down the average so much.

Your NAT will change as loads are assigned to you. If the APM 'hangs a load' on you but the load never commits your NAT can get screwy. The other explanation is your DBL is screwing around in your events fixing other things and ends up 'breaking' your NAT. It could be adjusting times - each step in workflow must be done at least one minute apart. If you Drop MT at 09:03:59 and Pickup Loaded at 09:04:01 it will go thru on your end but kick out an error on your DBL's side (or similar nonsense). It could be paying expenses. It could be adding routing points or calendar events, or him working on another driver and you at the same time, or, or, or. His advice is spot on check your NAT at every opportunity. Any time the brakes are set and you get within arms reach check WF/NAT, be OCD about it. Sometimes the hamsters get tired of running on the wheel that powers OTM, have a couple beers and start mucking about because they can.

 

Not necessarily it's only about 250lbs per hole, but that driver went the wrong way with it