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

Are you speaking from experience of being a 10+ year experienced o/o running a completely independent show or just someone speaking from the perspective of just being a point and click Schneider driver?

Not doing due diligence, that's funny.
Things are all not so simple when everybody is lying and even lies on a rate con.

The past two weeks each and every single one of my loads were over 1000 miles and all paid $3.20- $4.30 a mile, including one from Texas to Ohio whereas at Schneider those pay around $1.10.
I'm doing that as a noob out here.
I would never believed it to be possible myself without seeing and doing it myself.
That's truly how bad drivers relying on freight from carriers are getting screwed. Yeah there's bs and lies but I'm least I'm not running cheap freight, rather most money I've ever seen in my life and I'm just getting the party started.

 

I've got two trucks now, hired one person so far also.
Was basically done with relying on a carrier for freight, no more fake rates or cheap freight for me. I've looked at own authority but challenges came with that, namely big insurance costs.
It was more beneficial for me to find a high % carrier to run under that would let me do my own thing, that's what I'm doing.

 

Nearly 8 years in business, everybody I've called or has called me we're already "set up".
Pretty much goes like this...
When me and broker come to terms on a load they send the rate con to my carrier, then my carrier calls me to go over the details to verify what's in writing vs what I've been told.
If that's good they sign the rate con and we're good to go.
That's really the only time I speak to my carrier unless there's a problem.
No broker ever turned me away once hearing the mc number, always has been fine.
I can book whatever I want with whomever pretty as long I want as long as their credit isn't garbage. If their credit is garbage they demand the load be prepaid before I haul it (have yet to encounter that).
Once I pick up the load i can get a 40% advance loaded in onto my fuel card at no charge.
Whatever bills I turn in Tuesday I get paid on that week on Friday.
Just really only using DAT 99% of the time, best rates happen when someone calls someone on my posted truck that needs that load move.
If I get tired of talking to brokers I can just post my truck with only email address, the people serious will take the time to send me an email about a load.
What's really fun is when the truck is in hot area with many loads and no trucks, phone will blow up non stop.
One time I was one the phone with TQL and during the same call I had 3 other TQL calls lol.

 

well instead of talking crap why don't you enlighten all of us please.

You're coming across like I don't care about customers I haul for, come on man.