New IC contract. What do you think?

It's kind of small but this is it.

 

Am I understanding this correctly? If we deadhead more than 100 miles for our next p/u we get charged this fee.
Dang I knew I should of never read that before bed.
I wasn't even planning on reading any of it till next week.

 

Ok, I think the gist of it is this - if you move more than 100 miles away from your previous delivery, you return to the same place to pick up an empty if bobtailing home, or don't and pay $250, OR, if you are just deadheading with an empty > 100 miles from last drop, you pay $250.

So from reading that, correct me if I'm wrong in these four situations (2 and 3 are basically the same, but whatever, you get my point)

Situation 1:

I deliver a load to Garysburg, NC. I'm going home to Chapel Hill, NC after I deliver that load. One of two things can happen:

Schneider tells me where to drop the empty that they are requiring me to pick up from Garysburg before I go home. According to the contract, this could be anywhere, not even a distance is specified. I have to leave Garysburg, take the trailer to wherever they want, then I can bobtail home and choose a load convenient for me to leave the house from.

If I don't want to drop the trailer where Schneider tells me to, and I just leave it in Garysburg, when I leave home, I have to return within a 100 mile radius of Garysburg (which is 120 miles from my house to begin with) to pick up an empty trailer, or I pay $250.

Situation 2:

I deliver a load to Garysburg, NC. My next load is out of Linwood, NC. I'm not going through home, I just pick up the empty in Garysburg and drive to the truck stop near my house for my 10, then I go on to Linwood the next day.

Because the distance from Garysburg to Linwood is over 100 miles, I pay $250.

Situation 3:

I deliver a load to New Braunfels, TX. I park at the truckstop nearby in New Braunfels, and I wait for the Del Rio, TX to Mechanicsburg, PA load to show up on the load board. I finally get the load and go to Del Rio, TX to pick it up. I pay $250 because Del Rio is further than 100 miles away from New Braunfels.

SITUATION 4:

I come off the road for a while to work some stuff out with myself. I wait somewhat excitedly to come back to Schneider and get on with my usual that I have been doing for the past two years as a contractor.

Schneider now tells me they are starting to micromanage contractors even more, by charging them for deadheading out of an area, EMPTY TRAILER OR NOT. I own my truck. It is a good old truck and is not very expensive for me to run and I enjoy taking nothing but the loads that I want to take, going where I want to go, because I enjoy it, make good money, and because I can. That's why I do everything I do. Because I fricking want to and I can. Now I can't do that any more without being "punished" with some bull-crap "trailer repositioning" fee that Schneider puts in place in an attempt to "force" (ok, STRONGLY ENCOURGE OR EAT A $250 PENALTY) drivers to take the crappy rate, heavy *** load out of somewhere after taking a decent load in, because in the bigger picture it keeps Schneider in control of the per-mile rate by playing with the load board to design it in a way that many areas in decent-rate-in, crappy-rate-out.

Instead, I stick my middle finger up towards Schneider and all it's beancounters in charge and don't come back.

**** you, Schneider. I supported this company and program for years, even through all it's faults. But this... this is downright insulting. I hope the backlash from this is absolutely insane.

What a ****ing joke SNI has become. GREED. GREED. GREED.

 

I am going to try to get some clarification on this today while in orientation. From my understanding situation one is correct. Your other scenarios I'm not sure of since I'm we only talked about going home not deadheading and continuing to work.

My understanding more often than not the DH won't be a problem as long as it's from load to load and not to go home.

 

The wording on a lot of this stuff I'm a little confused by BUT towards the end I think it's clarified:



It's not about picking loads within 100 miles, this is all about trailers themselves from what it appears to me.

Say for example your house is in the middle of nowhere and you drop an empty 140 miles from your house before you go home.
When you come out of the house the closest empty might be where you dropped it 140 miles away.
So basically you'd have to go back 140 miles at your own expense to get that empty or face a fee?

Schneider pays us on going on MT trailer hunts but by doing this it appears they're finding a way out to pay you to go running looking for an MT after you go home.

Unless your home is far away from any Schneider customers is only when I think this might come into play.

The wording is tricky but that's my guess.

 

I'm no lawyer ....

But if you mt out and choose a load more than 100 miles away from that spot you would pay the $250.

 

Wow...... Im kinda pissed

 

lets not all get our panties in a bunch at least until somethings get clarified....

 

If you read that last sentence I think it says you pay the trailer fee...

 

Hey is it time to panic yet? Safety director here said cameras are coming for all trucks in the next 12-18 months including IC's. Forward facing only she "claims"