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

While I agree with this....it doesn't help the industry when we accept cheap freight. If they can move it at those rates why would they ever feel the need to raise rates.

Been reading JCT thread and if my math is correct they are hauling at .90 and FSC is .19. Thats crazy....and believe me it has a trickle down effect to those of us that can't/won't haul that cheap

 

Keep in mind though some of those companies have perks in other directions. Income isn't everything when you start to evaluate expense. Celadon doesnt require you to make a payment if you're home. Trans Am drivers pay .99 cents per gallon for fuel. The list goes on. I'll tell you one thing though, freight has dropped off the face of the earth recently and they love putting those 5 day 250 mile loads on the board a lot more often. Plus I'm getting about sick and ####ing tired of EVERY SINGLE ONE of my loads getting ####ed with by box planners! They didn't waste anytime abusing the agreement.

 

Yeah. I don't disagree with you from a driver's perspective who are looking to keep expenses down.

But that just encourages cheap freight rates to be posted for the rest of us

 

That's understandable until you're at a place that doesn't have an empty and then all of a sudden your 53 mile deadhead to your next load turns into 162 because the closest empty was 72 miles in the OPPOSITE direction...then what do you do? Kind of ####ing funny that it was an empty at a walmart store, cause i'm sure it had everything to do with it was the closest one to me, nothing at all to do with walmart telling us to get our trailers off of their parking lots...black friday was over 2 weeks ago..i'm sure it had nothing to do with that. So, I sat and watched my 1.83 a mile load turn into 1.21

 

Disclaimer! Jct l/p guy here for 2.5 yrs.

There is a big difference between what jct, or other companies, pay out and what they charge. Jct is not cheap on charging customers, just what they pay drivers.

One stark difference is SNI guys deadhead for free whereas jct is full pay and full fsc. I've been dh'ed 600 miles more than a few times to get to good loads. 250 is very common.

Wasn't but a few posts ago that (censored to protect the guilty) commented on all the $0.90 or less loads posted on the SNI load board.

Stones...glass houses....some such saying.

Just watch out as I don't see freight rebounding any time soon. Anybody that follows monetary policy and real data (not the headline bs) knows the s.i.a.t.h.t.f.

TA

 

Yes there are a lot of cheap loads posted here. And drivers will haul it. That's part of the problem.

Not this driver.

Also the fact they can afford to deadhead drivers 600 miles and pay them should tell you something.