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

What's not to love??? You mean you don't like our potholes, traffic, outrageous prices on everything, endless tolls??? Aw come on!!!! It really is nice up here in the fall!!

But I digress.....I live in Central PA....I know no better

 

Well each to their own, but I'm just amazed at the people who ridicule others for running an 80 cent load, then turn around and tack 500-1000 miles of DH on to a load paying 2/mile and think that magically doesn't do anything to the rate. Or DH 1000 miles home. What did that 1000 miles tacked on to your last load cause your rate to crash down to? Less than a dollar? By the time you tacked on that 1800 mt miles on to your next load you were probably paying them to run their freight, the same thing people are accusing the guy running the 80 center of.

 

Breakdowns can happen at any time, anywhere, so it's pointless to bring that scenario into it. You might breakdown the second you grab that higher paying load too.

 

This is a Schneider thread. We don't negotiate rates here. 500 miles DH tacked on to a 1000 mile load paying 2/mile, which is a #### good load here, knocks that rate down to 1.33. I did the math for you in my other post. No idea how you can deny it doesn't kill the rate.

 

Trust me, i knew the dead head i was facing before i committed to the load, i factored it in. And it left it far far above a buck a mile. The idaho was a gamble. It was delivering on a Friday, I planned on bouncing down to salt lake to grab something on monday going back east fir an overall average of over 2$ per mile. But that didn't work out so on Friday when I'm empty with nothing committed to fir Monday yet my choices was sit and hope our head to a good area over the weekend. I had a plan b and i pulled the trigger on it the moment i realized plan a wasnt coming together. If memory serves me correct it dropped the average on that run down to 1.55. A LOT lower than i was expecting, but still profitable considering i get over 9mpg running empty. Not terribly bad as a plan B for an extreme situation. The more common situation is loading to denver out of Ohio for 2.90 a mile on 1700 miles or whatever it is. Deliver on a Friday and bounce the 900 miles or so to st louis to load another good load Monday. For an average of 1.89.

The point we are making is when going to these black hole markets we don't go unless the last in pays enough to bounce out. We look at the delivery as an out of the way stop off, not the final destination. The final destination is our preplanned bounce to area.

 

Where did you load out of?

You should've known going into this Schneider isn't a team company & doesn't have a lot of team freight. You've been here longer than me & I picked up on that from others on the team board. You're smart, you'll make it work.

 

The empty feeling you get when u call in to verify the load time and while they have you on hold the load disappears....was it booked or did they give it to a company driver lol