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

I just bought a 14 Shaker from a local dealer. I was leasing a 13 Shaker from the company. Payment was 625/week, 4 yr lease. They've now since I started mine lowered the payments a quite a bit, and made a larger balloon at the end to make it more affordable. Mine would of been 16K.

 

Right now they only offer percentage on the skateboard side. Van is supposed to be coming soon. If I want to run long stuff I'd be in the 1.15 range all miles. That's crap to me so I try to push it up to 1.25 or so with shorter stuff. Can I make more at other companies? Absolutely, but the thing that's kept me here is I actually feel like I matter here. I know that sounds kinda corny, but they've taken care of me here, The management is very approachable, in fact I can climb the ladder as far as I want if I feel the need. When I was going to leave for SNI last April, they called me in and told me all the stuff that had planned for O/O's and begged me to stick around and help them test the new stuff. That said, I'll prob leave here sometime in the next couple years for bigger money, but until rates rebound I'm pretty content. I'm not getting rich, but I'm not going broke either. My operating costs are very low. I'm talking 50 cents a mile low. That definitely helps.

 

Yes, and it's an issue from time to time. They make us wait 18 hours before our PTA, which is your NAT I believe, before we can access the load board. Really sucks. Some of the upper management are trying to get rid of this, but apparently there's some sort of disagreement amongst the suits.

 

Yea that's can't happen here. You can't access the load board if you're on line 3, so no wives or GF's at home picking your stuff. The app knows when you're driving, so it will lock you out.

 

Yea man like I said I know more money is out there. Just doesn't feel like the right time to be jumping companies. You guys have your issues too. Someday..

 

Yikesss 1.15 for long trips and 1.25 for short? I worked for roehl when i first started driving, my FM was constantly being changed.. Then i had 2 different guys that never communicated and that left me sitting hours and hourssss waiting for loads ect... I couldn't make any money at roehl, it was terrible. I guess picking freight would make things a little better, but 1.15 is terrible.

 

Runnin multiple short loads everyday would burn me out... Maybe a few a week then the rest 500+ but everyday 3 loads nah

 

Why would you wish that.. That's not reality trucking...