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

Just turn the phones GPS off. Bookem on the fly.

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave

 

It won't let you log in without the location function turned on.

 

Not me. The only load going out from my house these days paying better than that is a short load to Valliant on a pain in the rear route. Then, it's crap out of Valliant.

Anything going to a good freight area out of my house is now paying in the $1.00 range, $1.20 when I'm lucky.

 

I believe IC fleet average is about 1.30 per paid mile.

There's some do better and worse.

I was just questioning this last month and that's what I was told per GB.

 

I've gotten one recruitment check and it wasn't solicited. Tho was appreciated. Free money is hard to say no to.

 

Especially when your trying to get out the clink. Sorry man, the whole thing just struck me funny for some reason.

 

That deal with the military and that one agent is pretty funny. And to think they would probably still be getting away with it of not for ######### buying very expensive items with cash. I know it sounds fishy, but its very plausible no one in Louisville actually knew what was going on. The girls in truck pay and billing. dont go every bill of lading, they just slap an invoice with it and send it out. And considering as a company 30k dollar loads are not that rare. I've seen loads I the board paying that due to being od and routing, police escorts in multiple states, utility companies needing to stage boom trucks to lift power lines, etc etc. 500 air miles can actually be 2500 miles and take 25 days. And let's be honest about office folk, most don't know the difference between a legal load and a super load requiring 4 different state highway patrol agencies. And its not like those guys were doing 1 of these a week. Or isn't a case of the fleet average having an annual geeks is 180k and these dudes grossed 600k. They probably grossed in the top 20 percent, they just got to do it on a lot less work than the rest of us, giving them a greater net.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a koolaid drinker, i bet someone in the office was either in on it, getting a nice kick back, or turned a blind eye, or best case, didn't see the writing on the wall right in front of them. But i have zero evidence of that and do think it's also possible, even likely that no one outside of those indicted had any clue as to what was going on.

oh and it should be noted that immediately after this came to light that steps were put in place to prevent the possibility of it happening ever again. Particularly to government loads.

 

The whole thing seemed trivial to me. The government always takes the highest bidder. In construction you had to be careful not to bid too low. They don't like that either. Not saying there wasn't plenty of wrong doing. Who knows. Just seems like small fish. What the govt giveth the govt taketh away. Shady things going on around government contracts is never surprising. I don't care who the company is. The govt can be shady its own self.

 

It wouldn't surprise me as I recently came back and see that there's nothing but cheap and heavy trash on the board.
The fact is I made a massive mistake coming back and now looking for a place to put my truck.
Its disgusting absolutely disgusting.
There's not even a handful of decent loads.
I've been hovering around 1.60 It's sickening.

 

####... what the hell has happened to Schneider since I left late march....
sounds like it really hit the fan or people don't want to chase the pay rather than what they always ran...