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

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  1. radioshark

    radioshark Road Train Member

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    Are of you doing direct shipper skipping the broker or thinking about it?
     
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    Yup

     
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    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    Nope and not even thinking about it.
    I highly doubt I could get better rates direct than I'm getting doing my own thing currently.
     
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    UPS is bragging... quoting their advertisement "great rates".. then they put $1.02 a mile in the same posting lmao!!!!
     
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    I know its like that guy on the back of dart trailers, grinning ear to ear getting screwed so hard he doesn't even realize it.
     
  8. drvrtech77

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    and yet they have cheerleaders who think sni is the greatest...i guess u sucker is born everyday...lol...im talking about ones I've run across..
     
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    I wouldn't get out of bed for $1.02 a mile unless I was a true company driver. Then I'd be a half hour early.
     
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    I think you're doing it right. I can see raising a rate a little if a broker is in a bind but trying to gouge them for $6 a mile on a $3 a mile lane is not good business. That's the same as price gouging.
     
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