Changing again, the rules change but we're not told til after.

duddie · Mar 29, 2016

I don't have the find an empty problem thank God...

Home_on_wheels · Mar 29, 2016

RootHog said: ↑

I've even been sent to drop an mt up in Illinois at an abandoned excel warehouse. Absolutely nobody in the building anymore, and they want me to drop a trailer there.
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Soooo, I would drop mty there. Let the box planners figure it out. What really sucks is when they send you there to pick up mty and no one there and the place has a For Sale sign on it. And they swear there are mty's there. Even gives a trailer number to pick up.

mickeyrat · Mar 29, 2016

They need to audit customer locations and names for a location. As well as other info (hrs , remarks etc) far too many inaccurate places/info.

TennMan · Mar 29, 2016

Then CS would have to work ^^^^^^^^

freightwipper · Mar 29, 2016

stevep1977 said: ↑

The best one ever is I just delivered to frito lay in Flint, MI. I was told to grab an empty and shuttle it 2 miles to GM in Flint. Of course it was TA93xxxx POS trailer.

I tell them GM doesn't accept trailer over 10 years old. ICA says they're aware of that, GM is desperate for trailers so they made an exception.

I drive the 2 miles, pull into the driveway, and go to the guardshack. He comes out to inspect the trailer and immediately rejects it because of age. I tell him the situation and he asks, "who gave you this approval"?

So now I have to sit on hold with the ICA for 15 minutes, just give the guard the phone so he can talk to them, and finally everything is squared up.

So I hop in the truck, slide the tandems, go to move and the brakes won't release. In the 2 miles I took to drive there the brake chamber blew out lol.

So now I had to sit in the driveway for 2+ hours babysitting an empty trailer while roadside came out to replace the brake chamber.

While this was all occurring, another SNI driver comes rolling in with TA94xxxx and is dropping that empty. Two minutes later the guard comes over and tells me he has to reject my trailer, they can't accept any more over age trailers since the other guy just dropped one.

Back to the phones we go. ICA is calling box planners, customer service, who knows what they're doing in Green Bay. Finally after going around in circles for another 30 minutes the guard gets approval from his office for me to drop it.

So overall, what seemed to be an easy quick $25 (I was able to bobtail into my next load anyway) turned into a 4 hour ordeal that's a story you couldn't even make up.

And the clowns at Schneider wonder why drivers refuse to shuttle trailers for a pitiful $25. Hell, if they had a company driver shuttle an empty 90 miles at .38/mile they'd have to pay him $35. He gets paid more plus they pay for the fuel too lol.
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lol thats a 9 series story for the ages

drvrtech77 · Mar 29, 2016

DsquareD said: ↑

That is one of the nice things about bulk division, no looking for mt's. All trailers are assigned.

The IC's in bulk just went to the choice plan from what I was told.

I had some very good conversations with the Schneider IC's at the tank wash in Chicago. One of them had the whole mt trailer thing figured out pretty well. I'm not exactly sure how it worked, but the requirement has some contractual rules (sounded like a bunch of BS to me) and this guy had it all figured out. He said there was a time limit that they had for putting an mt on you and he figured out the best way to work with those rules to minimize mt moves. It had something to do with calling in before beginning his next move or something like that.

I just decided that Schneider had too many rules for me.
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Trailers are assigned in the van division too.. just sometimes we get to a chance I need to drop and the empty they wanted me to pick up isn't there so what I do?...the next empty sitting there I hook to it send it in and I'm on my way.... See how easy that is

freightwipper · Mar 29, 2016

DsquareD said: ↑

That is one of the nice things about bulk division, no looking for mt's. All trailers are assigned.

The IC's in bulk just went to the choice plan from what I was told.

I had some very good conversations with the Schneider IC's at the tank wash in Chicago. One of them had the whole mt trailer thing figured out pretty well. I'm not exactly sure how it worked, but the requirement has some contractual rules (sounded like a bunch of BS to me) and this guy had it all figured out. He said there was a time limit that they had for putting an mt on you and he figured out the best way to work with those rules to minimize mt moves. It had something to do with calling in before beginning his next move or something like that.

I just decided that Schneider had too many rules for me.
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Yeah at bulk you get assigned trailers which you don't get many miles and you are on a cheap mileage rate pay plan.
That's why many ICs left bulk and came to Van.
Anyways glad to hear you're not coming, more loads left for me!

duddie said: ↑

I don't have the find an empty problem thank God...
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I know right, i rarely have any empty issues either.
Then again you and I put our foot down and don't let them play with us.

TennMan · Mar 29, 2016

You rule there buddy, a multi billion dollar company backs down to a truck driver about to sell everything even though he still rakes in the dough.....

I could ghost the empty assignment too but I choose to do it the correct way.

stevep1977 · Mar 29, 2016

TennMan said: ↑

Don't worry driver NOTHING will change with the new contract.

Sometimes I believe they just throw a dart at a map and say here's where he or she should take an mt.
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Schneider box planning 101:

TennMan · Mar 29, 2016

I agree ^^^^^^ difference is they have 1 dart for every 1k drivers

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