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

freightwipper · Mar 3, 2016

HalpinUout said: ↑

She's single I hear @freightwipper... You an her rolling in the Viper????
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Well she does like cordless blowers... sounds like a catch

Josh_ · Mar 3, 2016

freightwipper said: ↑

Today I grossed $847.10 on 338 miles. A tad over $2.50 all miles.
Load 1:Live load, drop
Load 2: Hook at customer in same town, drop
Load 3: hook at same location... live unload.
That was my day.
I'll clear over $700 today after fuel. I'll take that any day.

% is about service, not miles.
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weird question , but out of those 338 miles....what % is freeway and % city driving? I'm trying to calculate dollars/hr for few trucking companies. For example im averaging 60mph with governed truck limit at 65, so avg about $35/hr including accessorial pay($13.5, 500miles roundtrip, $0.54cpm) at OD.
Here sample calculation from Interstate: Fontana to Spokane (dryvan)
$2219 - $350fuel(16%)) / 1196miles = $1.56cpm x 60mph(avg) = $93.76/hr (only fuel expense factored in)
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my estimation for you: if 1/3 is city and 2/3 is freeway:
35 + 65 + 65) / 3 = 55.0mph avg speed
$847 - 16%fuel) / 338miles ) = $2.10 x 55.0mph = $115.50/hr (only fuel expense factored in)
proud of yourself man....you're almost at the very top (those drivers without a truck note)

freightwipper · Mar 3, 2016

Josh_ said: ↑

weird question , but out of those 338 miles....what % is freeway and % city driving? I'm trying to calculate dollars/hr for few trucking companies. For example im averaging 60mph with governed truck limit at 65, so avg about $35/hr including accessorial pay($13.5, 500miles roundtrip, $0.54cpm) at OD.
Here sample calculation from Interstate: Fontana to Spokane (dryvan)
$2219 - $350fuel(16%)) / 1196miles = $1.56cpm x 60mph(avg) = $93.76/hr (only fuel expense factored in)
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my estimation for you: if 1/3 is city and 2/3 is freeway:
40 + 65 + 65) / 3 = 56.7mpg avg speed
$847 - 16%fuel) / 338miles ) = $2.10 x 56.7mph = $119.35/hr (only fuel expense factored in)
proud of yourself man....you at the very top (drivers without a truck note)
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okay............

I'd say 80% of it was interstate, 5% city and 15% rural farm roads.

Don't see how you could even attempt to try to compare all this....
As every day is different...loads... miles.. time.. areas etc etc.

Even using that Interstate load......... that doesn't tell much of anything.
Mainly because you're leaving a good market to go to a dead market. You're not gonna be getting no 1000+ mile loads for $1.50+ back to CA from Spokane lol.
Where as what I just did kept me basically in a regional circle within a good market.
You posted hourly pay? Cause even though I might have only driven 5-6 hours I worked 14 hours. Me sitting in a dock = me working as I'm still on a load. Say if I made $700 after fuel well that's $50 an hour I made not including my overhead costs.
That hourly wage chart you posted doesn't even apply here as a comparison because that's salaries for employed people, a business is totally different.
For example if an employed dentist takes a week off they don't owe $1000 for fixed overhead costs for their "job", if I take a week off I do.
Then you're comparing OD to IC trucking companies per hour? You get benefits, paid vacation, pay less in taxes etc etc vs me. Where does that factor in?
Then also factor the money you earn will be dependent upon what you're willing to do. There's drivers here that solely run the Northeast that earn more than me and then there's drivers that live/work in the south and go home every weekend that earn a lot less than me.
In other words there's endless variables.
All I can say is someone doesn't leave a place like OD to make a lot more money as an IC leasing a truck cause that ain't happening. Drivers there earn 70-80K+ with endless benefits. If I worked as much as a company driver I could earn more than that but it wouldn't be much more. If I wasn't paying $40k a year in truck payments it would be a different story lol.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.. if I wasn't doing this then my behind would be at OD or ABF as a company driver.

MysticHZ · Mar 3, 2016

freightwipper said: ↑

Well she does like cordless blowers... sounds like a catch
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Better yet ... she has a 14xxxxx trailer.

On a side note, Purina in Flagstaff supplies a blower for cleaning your trailer. Personally I didn't think it worked worth a crap.

HalpinUout · Mar 3, 2016

freightwipper said: ↑

Well she does like cordless blowers... sounds like a catch
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I just watched the whole video, Schneider has no problem with you guys sweeping or blowing all the stuff from the trailer out onto the ground and leaving it?

I certainly wouldn't be posting videos online of me doing that...

freightwipper · Mar 3, 2016

HalpinUout said: ↑

I just watched the whole video, Schneider has no problem with you guys sweeping or blowing all the stuff from the trailer out onto the ground and leaving it?

I certainly wouldn't be posting videos online of me doing that...
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It's one thing to sweep trash onto the ground, it's another to sweep it onto a customers ground and then post it online. Without that customer you wouldn't have that load and yet people think it's okay to trash their grounds

rickybobby · Mar 3, 2016

I think I swept out a trailer twice last year. I pick up the big pieces and go.

freightwipper · Mar 3, 2016

today on the load board........

Kirotito · Mar 3, 2016

freightwipper said: ↑

Well it appears it's time for me to share as to why I've been soo quiet and stopped posting.
If you go back to the last page of comments or some of these posts I just quoted that in a sense is very revealing.
I pretty much haven't said anything in the past month and some dude comes in here thanking me for my sharing and makes a general comment not directed towards anybody specific about some ignorant attacks I have faced previously.
Suddenly others speak for me as why I stopped posting when I haven't even said why myself I stopped.
Also and importantly revealing Tennman posts a disgusting ignorant comment about me in which made me extremely disappointed and the respect I have had for him is now totally gone.. just like how any positivity from the Schneider threads has been gone for some time now.

I shall explain and point out specifically why I feel this way.
First of all from the beginning this thread has been about my experience here.. the good, the bad and my feelings. I've said repeatedly my feelings aren't right or wrong but simply my opinion from my own personal experience here.
The goal was to be open and specific...
I feel this thread has gotten the attention it has because of how open and specific on things have been posted here...
I searched endlessly for details and specific first hand information about this program before I came.
So I felt the way I'd post is in ways I hoped to see in the past.
However over time I have realized that I have been too opened and specific about some things which was a mistake and I'll get to later.
From post #1 on this thread it was my intention to share my negative experiences and frustrations as well here.. if you actually go back to post #1 you'll see I'll listed out negative points about working here that I felt at the time.
Throughout I have been extremely opened... off the top of my head from Schneider screwing up appointments, customers holding MTs hostage leading to cancelled appointments, making mistakes by going into cheap rate markets, POS trailers, Schneider being too cheap to hire enough people to answer phone calls, Schneider posting WRONG information and even rates sometimes on load board... I mean we can go on and on here. I even talked about multiple being stuck in the Northeast running regional for a week plus because I refused to leave for all that cheap freight which is in a sense sharing a negative experience as well.
My complaining has been opened to the point of this exchange between me and Tennman:

Which isn't the first I had to reply reminding people I'm here to share BOTH sides of my experience here:

My point is anybody with half a brain or not in magnificent state of ignorance knows if you want to "recruit" you don't bring out bad things rather you butter everything up and only speak positive about what you're trying to recruit them to.
When you call recruiters at a trucking company do they tell you negatives and problems with the company you'll face while working there? NO!
So to say this is a recruiting thread is ridiculous as I've exposed negatives and bashed my own job since post #1 along with posting things I'm happy about which is fair and what should be posted in this forum.. both the good and the bad.
Tennman himself said in the past:

I actually don't think you have half a brain or are in a state of ignorance... I actually think you're smart and have added a lot to this forum. I think it's just you picking on me with more off base bullying BS which you and many others have done to me as well in the past.
Which is really sad and disgusting.... this is not the same Tennman I knew of from last year.

All of which now brings me to answering why I've been so quiet.
Before I joined choice and in some time after the Schneider section was a really wonderful to read and be apart of.
Drivers were light hearted, kind, positive.. very helpful and sharing.. along with overall a great sense happiness from drivers here.
I felt blessed to come across such a section after many other areas of this forum being negative and many unhappy drivers. I gained great respect for many of the ICs here and thanked them in my opening post.
Over time however things have greatly changed.....
The Schneider section has degenerated into oozing negativity.
Yeah I tolerated many middle school style BS attacks on me for some time but it goes beyond even that...
In other Schneider threads it's just constant negativity all time and I see members attacking other members as well.
It's just not a pleasant place to be and post anymore.. let alone to simply read.
I'm all for sharing positive and negative but man it's really become totally negative here.. not just about Schneider but personal ways as well as with attacks on others.
At one time I felt grateful and proud to be apart of the community and the co-drivers here.
Now I feel ashamed to be even associated with all the crap that goes on here.
From being bullied all the time in my thread.. to a constant stream of negativity and attacks by others on others Schneider threads.. man it's really depressing!
Then it became an evident reality for me that Schneider is when Dogals revealed it and a few days later Stevep.
At that point I was just like WTF am I even going here?!?
It's simply another thing that's a negative... when I talk crap about my job and I know my job is reading it thus I know nothing good can come from it. It's as simple as that and is a reason being extremely opened and specific could work against you personally.
In other words even though yeah things upset me here and there's negatives here I still love and value my job so pissing off Schneider isn't in my best interest.
I thought I have nothing to gain here... It's just trolls trolling me, being exposed to constant negativity and now knowing Schneider is stalking these threads.

Sooo I got to the place where I was like screw this I'm done.
I was sooo done with everything man.
I even asked the mods to delete this thread which didn't happen but that discussion I won't make public.
Although I will say they were very supportive, helpful and understanding.
Then others started messaging me.. calling me concerned about me and expressing great gratitude for the ways I've helped them and etc.
Sooo that is what kept me here though limitedly.
Outside of this forum I have contact with other ICs whom of which we've share our experiences, gave ideas and offered ways to help each other even though we're "competition".
All of which I greatly value and appreciate, you know who you are.
My point is we all have things to add for others and ways to learn and help from each other.
This random dude Nel4you went through what looks like my whole thread cause he thanked a lot of my posts and then left a comment thanking me for sharing.
Gratitude, positivity and sharing even if simply by words can make a great difference in peoples lives.
As for me I still feel like I have the best trucking job on the planet and I'm doing very well still.
Yes there's negatives, I mean come on this is a mega carrier of course there's going to be some BS but there are huge positives as to working here I can't get anywhere else which hold a great value to me.
I hope some take something positive away from all this.
I hope this Schneider section will one day turn back to what it once was.

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I have been reading this thread for almost a month everyday and I still have ways to go but what you are doing is your bussiness and remember whenever you do something good/kind/thoughtful it will always feel like you are going against the grain.Be encouraged.You are helping many!Now back to reading.200+ pages to go on your thread.

againstthewind · Mar 3, 2016

Home_on_wheels said: ↑

Only thing is, you're still competing with company trucks.
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if the bol says sni logistics and you are pulling the load with another company is it a schneider load?

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