My 4 Month Review of Schuster

Nah, no fixes, unfortunately. Turns out the old way of being able to run 3 over on the pedal was not the intent of it to start with, at least they say lol. I’ve just started setting my cruise at 69 in a 70 and 65 in a 65 and using the extra few mph on cruise to pass when needed.

A little annoying, but I was also thinking I’d be at 68 when I rehired on last summer, so it is what it is

 

It’s the dang floorboards that get to me during winter lol. I’ve learned to just accept the dirty exterior during the winter, but it seems like no matter how hard you try to take shoes off before getting in, lay a mat down, etc, the driver floor turns white. Seems like 70 has been getting hit the worst this year — hope you and the Climateers have had a safe winter. Even those Houston Coca-Cola runs weren’t safe from snow for one week

 

I know there’s a couple tankers and I think I remember a couple hoppers rolling around doing specific loads for a couple of our customers. Conestoga is a new one though

 

Pretty solid 70 hour cycle. Came out to be 4097 miles, and still close to an hour left on my 70. A load from Illinois to Iowa, and then out to Oregon and back to Missouri

 

Schuster decided to implement a monthly fuel bonus based off the Samsara score (150 dollars) for the top 5%, I think they said. Either way, I qualified for this month, so that was neat. Glad they switched it to a monthly score based rating, which factors cruise control, idle time, smooth braking, speeding, etc.

Seems to be a lot more fair than the previous MPG system, which gave a big advantage to regional guys running Bomgaar’s loads through Nebraska, etc.

Either way, I’ll never complain about a free 150

 

Solid little 14,500 mile month. No freight shortage when it originates in Iowa Been to Oregon twice, Los Angeles last week, and delivering in Modesto, CA on Monday, so I’m enjoying the western runs