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

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by freightwipper, Jun 1, 2015.

  1. stevep1977

    stevep1977 Road Train Member

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    Easy solution to that cold storage place. 8 hour sleeper berth at the facility. Sucks but that's the price to pay.

    They really need to loosen up split log rules. You should be able to do whatever split you want, 9/1, 7/3, 5.5/4.5 etc etc
     
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  3. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    If you are a company driver paid by the mile, sucks for you.
    If you are an Owner Operator paid by the mile or on some phony percentage program, sucks for you too.

    No longer can you play with your logs to get more miles/revenue in.
    Those type of drivers will be losing money, some will quit over it.

    If you are an owner operator, able to book freely and run legal the elog mandate is the best thing that could have ever happened to you. Now we can work less hard for money being capacity has tightened.
    Many of those "other" drivers might not make it but it's their own fault for running cheap.

    If you can't make good money running legally and getting enough sleep you need to look in the mirror and not blame an elog.
     
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  4. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    Or before your 8th hour that coldstorage place will force you off their property... in the Northeast... At 2am... with no parking anywhere.
    Then your logs will be completely screwed and you'll miss your appointment for your next load likely.
    You know stuff like that is going on out here.

    Even if you do an 8 hour sleeper just to extend your logs if you've gotten no sleep how safe is that? It's not.
    You know thats going on out here too.
    Those are going to be the drivers in accidents and will likely try to blame it on the elogs too lol.
     
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  5. stevep1977

    stevep1977 Road Train Member

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    Well as long as shipper and receivers dictate what drivers can and can't do on their property then there isn't any realistic and safe system. These places hold you there for hours, it should be manditory that facilities allow drivers to follow logging rules. If they want to be hard ##### about kicking you out then they should hold you no longer than 2 hrs. That's pretty much just common sense.
     
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  6. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    common sense? since when was there any of that in trucking? lol
     
  7. stevep1977

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    Common sense from their standpoint. They kick you out, out of sight, out of mind.
     
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  8. CaptainDaveG

    CaptainDaveG Road Train Member

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    If the shipper etc screws my hours. Please dial 911. I can move sorry. I tells all of them this is what I have left I won't move. Some how it gets done.

    Be Safe Out There


    Captain Dave
     
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  9. JOHNQPUBLIC

    JOHNQPUBLIC Road Train Member

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    Maybe if some of these places started getting their docks blocked with out of hours trucks and drivers refusing to move them things would start to change. They would learn they can't take 8 hours to get 1 truck in and out.
     
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  10. againstthewind

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    if you dont want to sit at cold storage docks quit eating so much, only in america can people eat so #### much and think the system that supports it is gonna move smoothly, its like the guys complaining about sleeping next to a reefer, how you think that garbage your eating got there, not much different than four wheelers complaining about trucks, quit consuming so much and they all go away, but to expect that we as a society can consume and use so many products without any consequences is absurd.
     
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  11. PoleCrusher

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    Seriously? You are joking. Say you're joking. Please, tell me you are not serious.
     
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