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

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  1. blairandgretchen

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    Chill pill taken.
     
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    Fw, I'm hoping you do well enough over there to eventually tractor-beam me over there.
     
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    I been using truckn pro software for 5 years. Real easy too use and track all miles driven.
     
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    Depends what you mean well enough is.
    I'm certainly doing a lot better than being a company driver at Crete ;)
     
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    So my truck is finally done, Eaton paid for everything and I got a brand new clutch.

    So from Shartlesville, Pa I'm going to Carlisle to Morgantown, Wv then picking a light load nearby going to NC near Charlotte.

    I wanted to go west not south and I hate West Virginia BUT lets see I'm 30 miles from allentown and 120 miles from NYC and I'm escaping the Northeast black hole for about $1.82 all miles between those loads sooooooo it's worth it.
    My rate would have been over .20 higher if I went to the Kenworth in Carlisle instead of here but hopefully when I leave here my truck was put together correctly lol.
    Time to make money.
     
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    bout time , slacker.
     
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    How many days were you down?
     
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    wasn't my fault, I hate PA.. this is the last place I would take time off.
     
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    when you factor everything all this BS cost me 13 days of sitting
     
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    I booked a load out of Charlotte for Friday going to Ohio.
    Drop and hook both ends, relay load, 10k pounds.. around 500 total miles at $1.65 all miles.
    I know if I waited I could have gotten a better load rate wise BUT this is bring me within a couple miles from the P&G plant near Dayton, Ohio. Being the weekend is coming I didn't want to risk it.
    If there's any place I'd want to be on a weekend for loads it's there and Chicago area comes second.
    There's always soooo much freight coming out of there going in all directions plus I specifically know they always have a weekend load going 200 miles into Kentucky for around $3.50.
    The plan is on Friday see where the best Monday morning loads are in the country and head in that direction from the P&G plant in Dayton as they really do have freight going everywhere always.
    Oh and yeah never do I book Monday no later than late Friday afternoon.. after that all the good freight is gone and it's leftovers. Made that mistake a few times but I've learned from it.
     
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