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

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uh well I wouldn't say it's similar as there's no brokers, no calling in on loads etc and loads get sent to your truck in a matter of seconds.. sometimes a couple minutes of assigning a load to yourself.
Biggest tip I could say is be prepared and willing to put lots of hard working into learning the system, markets, Schneider games etc etc.
There's soo much to learn and the learning never stops.
Don't get discouraged if you make mistakes or aren't piling in the cash right away... it takes time.
Took me a few months before I broke past $3000 in a week after all expenses (not counting the no truck payment weeks).
Also remember as I'm sure you already know.. this is percentage which means the loads you will HATE are the ones that will pay more generally.
Charlotte is a good area overall so you do have that going for you.
Good luck and have fun!

 

From what I've learned/been told but don't know for sure to be fact...
Schneider book loads according to how many trucks are shown available in accordance to a time frame and area.
So an IC doesn't pick a particular load and Schneider can't get company drivers to cover it they'll either reschedule it or go to third parties to cover the load.
Also supposedly you can work through Schneider as on O/O running under your own authority to get loads as power only, doesn't work the same as being a choice driver and doesn't mean you'll be offered all loads.
Some loads specifically say no "third party carriers", that's another thing.
Us Choice ICs better always be booked at least one day out cause same day loads usually are slim pickings and aren't great as ICs and Schneider on the company side passed them up. I've found sometimes in some markets you can get lucky booking same day but it's very rare and I avoid those situations.
Same day loads Schneider is out to get them covered but all loads cannot always be covered.
Regardless what you might see on the roads the trucking market as tanked recently.. less loads, lower rates industry wide. Been covered here at Schneider, O/Os elsewhere have talked about it on here, stats show it and news articles have been talking about it.
We are no exception.. although Schneider does have some contract customers pumping out the same amount of loads at the same rate so I'm grateful for that. However once those contracts are up if things don't improve then those shippers are likely to demand lower rates... so in other words I hope things change soon!
In closing YES load counts are down, for sure!