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

Those mileage programs still suck.
For one a lot of them take a cut out of the FSC. Celadon for example lists FSC at .20 where as right now it's probably really closer to .26
Then factor in paid miles which won't be near actual miles you drive.. which means a lot considering Stevens right now it's listed at $0.85 plus FSC according to their website. Every little bit matters when you're running for peanuts!
Being it's reefer also factor in miles and time lost going for trailer wash outs.
When I pulled a Reefer (company driver) I would have to call up and demand my miles going to get a wash out be added onto my trip (when out of route) which they would when I would beach them out. However still sometimes I lost 1-2-3 hours for a washout with the lines which sometimes can be terrible.
All I'm saying is there's no money at all in the mileage lease programs and you get screwed left and right.

I'm not even booked for today, still waiting for something half decent for me to do.
Kinda screwed myself over setting high standards for myself and being picky.
I was real lucky Tues-Weds-Thurs grossing nearly $2700 on 1120 miles, it took 6 loads including a multistop all in the Northeast to pull that off though. No delays, trailers moves... nothing.. All smooth sailing.
Now my luck ran out. Things look so bad now the most attractive thing for me to do at this point is going to Ohio for $0.90 lol
Overall I will state things are the most difficult they ever have been with loads/rates and it's not even close.
Now is not a good time to be coming over here, I mean yeah it's still better than Stevens and etc lol but trucking in general sucks right now.
It's been tough for me overall and I've studied this crap for the past year so noobies coming in now have competition in us whom been here a bit all now fighting each other in worse market conditions.
Well gotta be real though and say I set high standards so when I say it's been tough I mean it's been tough to reach those standards. It's almost as if I'm now going to have to lower my standards/expectations in the way I run. Things just suck right now man!
My friend at Landstar is struggling, he's been running at between $1.30-$1.40 and says even that's been tough to pull off and he gets the joy of calling brokers for loads and pretty much all live load/unloads.

 

SAYS IT ALL RIGHT HERE!

 

The cheeep freight winds are a blowing!

 

All I can say is COME ON ICE, SNOW and blizzards!!!!! Scare some drivers down south and back up some freight!
I actually did great last winter, Northeast was overflowing with loads and $$$ buddy! Although you needed a snow plow attached to your bumper to dig out your loaded trailer lmao

I have never seen anything this bad, I might actually choose to sit today it's that bad and I never had to do that before. Glad I had a good week leading up to now....
Lets hope there's just a glitch in the Matrix and things pick up back soon.