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

duddie · Mar 4, 2016

Anybody know of good places that install inverters the correct way lol

Home_on_wheels · Mar 4, 2016

duddie said: ↑

Anybody know of good places that install inverters the correct way lol
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my house.

freightwipper · Mar 4, 2016

Gotta give Schneider credit... they changed the quarterly stupid video testing format.
Now instead of being forced to sit through garbage videos they give the test upfront and if you answer the questions right then you don't have to watch any videos! YaY

CaptainDaveG · Mar 4, 2016

redoctober83 said: ↑

Don't forget, nm has a milage charge just like Oregon for its fuel tax. For guys who aren't in NM in a regular that can be a surprise come fuel tax time. Otherwise, El paso is bay for reload usually. Sometimes there is good stuff out of Arizona as well. Also look at Laredo even though the dead head sucks.
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My fuel tax was 251.xx last month running western 11....

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Scott72 · Mar 4, 2016

T_TRUCKER. said: ↑

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.
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You can get up to 1.50, but has to be very short. Under 250. Hard to stack those loads up.

Scott72 · Mar 4, 2016

freightwipper said: ↑

Could you imagine doing multiple loads a day just to pull off $1.25?
If things ever got that bad I'd turn in my truck and go back to being a company driver.
As terrible as that sounds thats about right for mileage programs.
As i said eariler Schenider tanker side is currently at $1.27 paid miles... which is probably around $1.20 actual miles knowing Schneider all for the joy of all the BS that comes with tanker.
No wonder a bunch of tanker guys have jumped ship (or jumped tank lol) and joined choice.
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Multiple loads a day, (around 200 milers) would get you around 1.50. I can do one 400 miler a day and get around 1.25. Keep in mind paid base plates, tolls, deadhead, scales. I can take an mt home for a week if I want. No dumb trailer games like you all have.

drvrtech77 · Mar 4, 2016

Scott72 said: ↑

Multiple loads a day, (around 200 milers) would get you around 1.50. I can do one 400 miler a day and get around 1.25. Keep in mind paid base plates, tolls, deadhead, scales. I can take an mt home for a week if I want. No dumb trailer games like you all have.
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Contrary to what several people on here complain about the trailer problem is not as bad as they claim I rarely go hunting for an empty and I've been here 9 months

T_TRUCKER. · Mar 4, 2016

drvrtech77 said: ↑

Contrary to what several people on here complain about the trailer problem is not as bad as they claim I rarely go hunting for an empty and I've been here 9 months
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Knocks on wood* I haven't had any problems with emptys since December, its been pretty nice.

rickybobby · Mar 4, 2016

They come in spurts.

CaptainDaveG · Mar 4, 2016

Scott72 said: ↑

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.
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How can your costs be that low?? Even with a paid off truck maintenance is going to be anywhere from .15 to .25 cents mile then there is fuel...and I assume you want to get paid...

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