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freightwipper said: ↑

You'll be needing bottles of xanax and anti-depressants to be playing the unconfirmed load game.
That's something I completely avoided my first oh 10 months of working here.
I now look at unconfirmed loads simply because now there's less loads lately and am looking to see all of what's going on in every market.
I'm somewhat with you on all that, it's way too stressful and aggravating to trying to make those work. When a good load confirms you really have MAYBE 30 seconds tops to book it.
Sooo many times I'd get a message saying a load confirmed only to not see it there a couple minutes later.
Only times I found it helpful for me is finding OKAY loads to and from my house. Other than that everybody almost always beats me on unconfirmed loads.
Really makes me feel like a loser when that keeps happening over and over again.
Loads I got beat to today were never on the unconfirmed list, they made straight to confirmed. I still got beat and that was when I was sitting in my sleeper with the laptop opened and saw I good load to escape the northeast pop up. In the idk couple minutes I pulled together loads to get me into there and out I was too late
Oh well.. so I won't see PA this week lol I don't mind.
To be honest I wouldn't mind if Schneider got rid of the whole unconfirmed list. I think it does more harm than good.
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The unconfirmed is good. I would say 95 percent confirm...it takes time you got to know when to holdem...I often camp on some great freight that way I have my qualcomm and phone with alerts and laptop logged in...when it pops Quallcaom is quickest to notify and if Im driviving I pull off and go off duty and book...have i been beat sure but not often. But I go with the flow I follow the money..period I almost always fly home every weekend now living in Denver as freight out of there will well kill you..IC is a huge chess game and I love it.

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CaptainDaveG, Dec 4, 2015

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I dont think a computer can do that...it can auto refresh...FW is kinda cheating the system a little..using multi tabs...I am guessing when you fire 1,2,3,4 the program is looking at them as a blast text for lack of better term, it might night be able to figure his NAT and HOS correctly..dont get me wrong I am with FW in spirit but I am not sure the Schneider system can do what he is asking...

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Cheating the system? really? By opening another screen/tab??

Schneider in their advertisement video basically shows a guy doing what i just said.
Listen from 1:00 to 1:25

"I would pull up a separate screen at that point"
Which is what I did.

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Cheating the system? really? By opening another screen/tab??

Schneider in their advertisement video basically shows a guy doing what i just said.
Listen from 1:00 to 1:25

"I would pull up a separate screen at that point"
Which is what I did.
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FW bad choice of words...I bet if you did one off laptop next off mobile it may have worked...

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when it pops Quallcaom is quickest to notify and if Im driviving I pull off and go off duty and book...have i been beat sure but not often
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and that's the problem....
we shouldn't be getting load alerts while we're driving. just saying..

Just think... say there's a load sitting unconfirmed from NJ to Oh paying $2.
Soon as it's confirmed there will be drivers rushing to park on shoulders, illegal areas etc etc to hurry up and try to book it before anybody else.

It's a distraction and not safe.

We can't talk on cell phones using a bluebooth.
We have to take stupid quarterly video tests which mainly focuses on safety and not being distracted.

BUT yet Schneider sends us distractions while driving and in which the driver that responds fastest to the distraction gets rewarded.
It's such a joke.

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FW bad choice of words...I bet if you did one off laptop next off mobile it may have worked...

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okay maybe I'm not explaining clearly...
It wasn't a system error, it was other drivers hitting "assign" a split second faster than me

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News flash.....good loads has always went fast,

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Or drivers using their phones to book loads while driving.

I no longer wait for good loads to confirm. The stress of trying to get it first, scrambling to park and get something booked just to get beat to it, or hoping my internet connection is fast enough, etc., etc. It was really getting to me.

I'll take a lower rate and run with it as long as its profitable and makes good sense. Yeah my settlements are lower, but so is my Advil consumption.
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Kinda my philosophy too. I get the alert and if its still there when I stop for a normal break, then I decide if I want to book or not. Even cheaper if you go with the store brand of ibuprofen....

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freightwipper said: ↑

and that's the problem....
we shouldn't be getting load alerts while we're driving. just saying..

Just think... say there's a load sitting unconfirmed from NJ to Oh paying $2.
Soon as it's confirmed there will be drivers rushing to park on shoulders, illegal areas etc etc to hurry up and try to book it before anybody else.

It's a distraction and not safe.

We can't talk on cell phones using a bluebooth.
We have to take stupid quarterly video tests which mainly focuses on safety and not being distracted.

BUT yet Schneider sends us distractions while driving and in which the driver that responds fastest to the distraction gets rewarded.
It's such a joke.
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I get my alerts via email not my Qualcomm

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rickybobby said: ↑

News flash.....good loads has always went fast,
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That's true.

But I used to see loads go in a few minutes and think that was fast. Now you're lucky if its a few seconds.

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exracer941 said: ↑

Kinda my philosophy too. I get the alert and if its still there when I stop for a normal break, then I decide if I want to book or not. Even cheaper if you go with the store brand of ibuprofen....
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Store brand doesn't work that well for me for some reason. Guess its high dollar pain.

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