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

How is sleeping in your truck while someone else is driving it ?

 

If you want to run team it makes sense to haul something that has a shelf life. There is more demand for teams for that. Produce and fresh meat comes to mind, as well as stuff like jet engines. Van freight other than expedited has less chance of really needing to get somewhere in a hurry, so less opportunity for a team to really stay busy. Just a thought. I wouldn't suggest fresh meat though. A lot of places will keep you waiting to load for ever. I drove for a packer as a company driver long ago and worked my ### off, but I don't think it would be so good as a common carrier.

 

It is what i would do. But we are in different situations and run different operations. What i do may not work for you and vice versa. For example 50% of the time i can have a leaf in mass or ct paying near 2$ a mile back to the Ohio Valley or southeast. 30 % of the time i can load in pa or jersey paying 1.80 to indiana or Illinois. The final 20% i end up dhing to Youngstown/pittsburgh/cleveland cause those loads just aren't there and is either bounce, sir and hope, or pull heavy and cheap. Heavy and cheap almost always means pia 2 hour tarp job after 4 hours loading plus 4 hours unloading. So for me its better to bounce empty and load a good load the very next morning in that pittsburgh to Cleveland area. For you, those 3 options don't really exist so you gotta make the best decision or if you're options.

I'm not in your shoes so i can't honestly tell ya what i would do if i was. From a distance is easy for me to say I'll bounce empty before pulling that cheap ####. Would i still do that if i was in your shoes? No way to know.

Ran into a mercer van guy tonight. He pushed the clutch in for me while i adjusted it. After we was taking shop. This dude had an awesome gig. Runs a dedicated account that is paying 1.81 (after fsc so can fluctuate up and down a coyote cents depending on what fuel costs that week)a mile on anywhere from 2500 to 3500 miles a week. No touch freight. That's freaking awesome for a van. Heck that's almost good enough to get me to go but one lol. And yes i saw the settlements so it wasn't made up numbers. No i won't tell who the customer is and let some other carrier come in and try to steal the account. I only mention it cause i give you door swingers so much grief that its only fair to give props when you see someone doing very well at it.

 

It's probably brokered , contrary to popular belief there is a lot of good paying freight in the NE.
Pryor to being here I used to book a lot of freight with ch r and get 1.80 out a mass into Chicago

 

He works for Mercer

 

Mercer. We've talked about this.

Edit: and yes, flat bed. Dude we've had several discussion about this. Teaming is messing with your mind.