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

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I showed up at a place we load at a lot in Missouri. Got there for a live load, it was preloaded. Lady at the window was not happy at all, load was supposed to have been picked up a week prior. Said they had two more out there that they preloaded to get product off their floor because we didn't make it for our load appointments the previous week.

They are not happy with us right now, which is a shame because the loads pay good. I'm afraid the only thing keeping us there is that the loads are mostly drops going to Home Depot in Topeka.

Last week, dropped at frito lay in Denver. No empties, so Box planners ran me to one place, then right back to Frito lay and said to ask for Roy. That went over real well as they pulled a trailer from one of their doors for me and informed me they were canceling the load they were going to put on our trailer and giving it to another company. I called in with that info to be passed to CS, figured they would want to know why a load got cancelled.

Seems to be something, somewhere, all the time anymore.
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CS could give two ####s...that's the big problem here.

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I thought you were happy and doing well here, what happened?
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Getting my own authority was always the endgame. I was going to wait until the end of the year, but for whatever reason things have gotten weird here the last six weeks or so. I don't know if it has anything to do with the IPO or what's going on, but it just feels like now is the right time to jump off this ship. I want to get my authority going well before the Elog mandate hits too.

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Getting my own authority was always the endgame. I was going to wait until the end of the year, but for whatever reason things have gotten weird here the last six weeks or so. I don't know if it has anything to do with the IPO or what's going on, but it just feels like now is the right time to jump off this ship. I want to get my authority going well before the Elog mandate hits too.
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Please for the love of God tell us you aren't sticking with a dry van. The dry van spot market is over saturated with this ruining for 1.20 a mile. what little good paying freight is available is locked up by the big fleets that you simply can't compete with. their ability to offer capacity trumps the service a one truck outfit offers.

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Please for the love of God tell us you aren't sticking with a dry van. The dry van spot market is over saturated with this ruining for 1.20 a mile. what little good paying freight is available is locked up by the big fleets that you simply can't compete with. their ability to offer capacity trumps the service a one truck outfit offers.
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Not sure where you are getting your numbers, but you're way, way off. 2/mile is very common in the market I run.

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RootHog said: ↑

I showed up at a place we load at a lot in Missouri. Got there for a live load, it was preloaded. Lady at the window was not happy at all, load was supposed to have been picked up a week prior. Said they had two more out there that they preloaded to get product off their floor because we didn't make it for our load appointments the previous week.

They are not happy with us right now, which is a shame because the loads pay good. I'm afraid the only thing keeping us there is that the loads are mostly drops going to Home Depot in Topeka.

Last week, dropped at frito lay in Denver. No empties, so Box planners ran me to one place, then right back to Frito lay and said to ask for Roy. That went over real well as they pulled a trailer from one of their doors for me and informed me they were canceling the load they were going to put on our trailer and giving it to another company. I called in with that info to be passed to CS, figured they would want to know why a load got cancelled.

Seems to be something, somewhere, all the time anymore.
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Customer service and upper management don't give a #### anymore plain and simple if they did they wouldn't be doing all this stupid nonsense

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Not sure where you are getting your numbers, but you're way, way off. 2/mile is very common in the market I run.
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right now running short haul in the right market with schneider you might be getting 2 a mile. But you won't have access to those loads under your own numbers. Where do you plan on getting your loads? Dat? Internet truckstop? The big brokerage firms like chr and tql? I hope you do great but before you start counting on that plentiful 2 a mile freight i suggest you actually get some hard firm numbers on spot market freight off those public load boards.

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Seems as if my predictions have ripened. Guess it's not all unicorns and cotton candy.
Why all the whining? This program rocks.

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How much can I make on the side recruiting..?

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https://seekingalpha.com/article/4060487-celadon-group-story-ends-chapter-11

Looks like Schneider might have their first company to buy out since going public

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Ask FW lol

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