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

A Soldier in my squad, starting with TQL a couple of weeks ago. He was telling me TQL is having some problems finding trucks. BTW he gets 25%

 

Ok SuperTruckers:

Really. I figure I pay SFI 200.00 extra per week to lease the truck. As I have said 100 times...I can tell you the noise it's making, take a picture of the crap falling off the truck, heck I will even taste the fluid laying on the road from my truck. Fixing it is not my strong suit. I admit that. I like knowing big orange will keep my truck on the road no matter what. I like pulling in to a shop an they know big orange is on my side. That's me. I know I am overpaying for that truck. Now I know I'm a logistics person. I love it. I can smell crap broker through the phone. I also love to build relationships. Today I took out over 500 dock masters and marinas out of my phone. That life is behind me and I'm richer for it. Actually thinking of buying a houseboat for me and the grandkids. But have no desire to run 200 foot 700 passenger boats. Or move boats from North to South. (Was a great time).

What I want now is 6 to 10 trucks. I won't treat you like a mega. I want honest people working those trucks ...I know I know.

Back to the topic. The megas can't help themselves they are rich and I mean rich. Track Schneiders private Jet and you will know. Megas wanted all for Elogs. They say it's fair.

What I love more than anything at 2pm today phone rang know good guy broker on the line. I need some beer moved Colorado to OK City 750 miles. I say what you got cause I'm not in the mood to be honest. Name your price. I shoot 4.00 a mile and he says deal??? Really 4.00 a mile for beer. Is the world spinning towards the sun?

Also SPOT freight is stuff that's not contracted but need to get from point A to point B. Some is great some goes to no mans land

Contract freight is where a carrier has it under there contract and may or may not pull it using there assets.

May you all have a great Holiday Season..

Thank you for the free cruise Budweiser

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave

 

Because they essentially are double dipping on loads ic's run...thats why

 

They are double dipping in the spot market loads also. Makes them a lot more money to agree to pull the spot load for 5k And then broker it to themselves for 2500 then take another 35% of the ic.

 

Capt. Dave let me see a load board this week. I saw a few of the runs I used to do for Schneider on it, into and out of Denver, many of them going for three to four times what we were getting them off the Choice board for. It was enough to really get me back to thinking of going OTR again. Turns out the local gig I've been doing this last year has started to get me down with being stuck in city traffic all day. I digress. Yeah, Schneider was really bending us over, ESPECIALLY with the rates coming out of Denver. I know the rates here aren't the best, but 85 cents a mile? Uh... no thanks.

 

There is no way they are putting the amount of freight out to the public and eating the money. They put a lot of freight out there on public boards & most if not all pays better than what they would pay an IC to pull it. I pull their brokered loads now for more than if I was leased to them. They have plenty of money in the load.

 

So most big companies require the big carries to broker out a certain percentage of the loads to small business. These loads you see Schneider posting on load boards aren't always because they can't cover it, it's purely to meet their contractual obligations.

 

So are you looking to sign o/o's to run under your authority, or buy trucks and hire drivers yourself?

 

For me buy trucks Hire Drivers. Pay them over the top pay.

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave