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

Are you renting the reefer trailer or bought one?

 

All right. Best of luck on your endeavors.

 

Done a Tyson delivery a couple months ago. Dry Van. This was a straight through delivery. Made my two picks, headed to Tyson to unload and try to get back home all in the same day.

Arrive at Tyson, they look at me like I have three heads. Guy has no intention of unloading me, has me park on the opposite side of the warehouse. I emailed the broker to let them know it was a potential problem. an hour in, no dock. 90 minutes in, no dock.

Call broker. Brokers says to hang tight and that detention starts after three hours at $25/hr.

Um, did you forget the Rate Con I signed? Try $80/hour after two hours, billed in 15 minute increments. Oh yeah, they said it might be in the morning, so this could get really expensive.

15 minutes later, yard dog comes to my door, tells me to head over and back in. I was out of there in just over two hours total, and back home that night.

When money is on the line, folks tend to step up and get their jobs done.

 

First three months with authority, which was the 4th quarter of 2017. Even with the learning curve of coming out here nervous, learning the load board on my own, learning to talk to brokers....

$2.63/mile all miles (ifta miles, so every mile ran on the truck). This is with a Dry Van. Ran just over 23,000 miles for the quarter, so plenty of home time.

Off to a better start this quarter, hoping to see the trend continue to climb!

 

Wow nice, congrats and hope it continues to go well.

 

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3) it's not really a Schneider thread anymore. It's a FW does it on his own thread & it just happens to still be in the Schneider section.

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