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

Do this with egg cartons. Get tractor, trailer, and trailer washout before going to shipper. Then, get Tractor and trailer washed again before getting to receiver.

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Only occasional drop and hook on dry grocery. Reefer is all live unload. But it's true I'm going directly from the warehouse to the store for the most part.

I do occasionally run loads from a supplier to the warehouse though. Usually either water, eggs, or frozen goods. Water is 50-50 live load or d/h. Eggs and frozen are always d/h (so far). I did get a load of turkeys once that was live load.

 

Mine is $6800/year, just got started on my own at the end of September. It's definitely a cost to consider, but I love being completely independent of everyone.

TQL stuck it to me today. Went to pick up a load in Rochelle with a 0700-2200 load window. Somebody was lying, because the shipper said it was a 2200 appointment, but not until after I had sit in a dock for over 3 hours. In close to three months, this is the 3rd TQL load I have done, and I have done one CH Robinson load. They are the last two names I look at. Only reason I did my 2nd TQL load is because they called me at the house 3 times, three different brokers, all begging me to go pick up a load. It took them almost $6/mile to get me out of the house, pick up the load, then go back home for the weekend and deliver it on Monday morning.

 

This right here is why I am dealing 99% with smaller brokers, with good credit rating. The honesty level is far higher, and the rudeness level is much lower.

 

That seems really good compared to what I always see posted on here...

 

I found that depends on what type of refer freight you haul. Produce is the worse I haul mostly frozen and temp regulated chemicals which I find far less hasdles with these types of cargo.

 

I did frozen foods and fresh fruits. Frozen you deal with lumpers, fruit went to stores that would try to say the product was bad.

If not one of those trying to get one over, the broker would try and say you agreed to something not on the rate con.

 

Hmmm, even when I'm dealing with random brokers, I've only come across one that lied to me. Now I've got my regular guys I use 95% of the time, so that helps as well. Overall, the broker lying is something I've not seen like you and @drvrtech77 share on here in the past few posts.

As for that broker that lied, it was a on what the product was I was suppose to be hauling. It was booked as a 15k lbs of bbq grills. I get there and it's 45k lbs of wood pellets for the bbq grills. I told that broker where he could shove his load and left the shipper without the load. I agree to do something and that's what I'll do, but it be not what I agreed to then you're sol or you're paying me more!