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

Yeah, but that does give me hope that as long as I can keep maintaining my current numbers ( which pays the bills and some left over ) , things will be good once freight picks back up.

 

Yes, that's correct

It's easy, you have a string of bad luck with every other trailer you pick up needing new tires, brakes, or new cans and sem takes forever to get someone out to you or the shop takes almost 48 Hours over the weekend to fix the problems. That would lead to canceling what you had booked and left with cr@ppy paying loads that don't come close to paying what you originally had booked.

I get a lot of my numbers from my actual numbers that I'm seeing running my business. Nothing far fetched about my real numbers.

Sure thing right after all of you do the same with how much you all complain and bash. I was asking a question about the trip lease option in our lease and explaining why I'm wanting to look into it. Instead I get your lying because there is no way those numbers can be right because you have never experienced it in your world.

I see you're still but hurt over that. Smh. But wait, I said non-recoverable revenue. So it helps if you read what I said.


New year's weekend, picked up a preloaded trailer a driver dropped stating it was in perfect condition. Trailer need 4 new tires, 4 new drums, 4 new pads, 2 new springs, 3 lights and was 4 months overdue for its pm. Pulled it into the oc at 1400. Was told to drop it in the yard since they wouldn't be able to get to until the next evening. I raised holy hell with everyone I could. Tried to get taken off the load but was told there was no one that could recover the load. Sat 2 days on a $997 load that should have be delivered same day and had to cancel the $3900 in revenue for the well I had booked. Because of the market I was going into there wasn't anything left to get me back out into a decent market. The best I could pull off that week was the $997 that was suppose to go in the previous weeks check and out of the $3900 booked, I was only able to recover $1100, so there is $2800 lost in one week.


The second week of this year, lost $1300 because of another trailer that had 3 flat tires. Took road assist 3 hours to get there and nother 2.5 to replace all 3. Had to clear the board again because I couldn't make the next pick up ontime anymore. Now again trying to book something last minute in a cr@ ppy time of year (how many posts in the past 2.5 months has freightwhipper complained about the bad freight because he lost a load or waited until the last minute?) Is it really that hard to understand that if you are having a string of bad luck with cr@ ppy trailers that you could loose $1000 in non-recoverable revenue?

Fast foward to just 2 days ago again, pre-loaded trailer with hazmat I picked it up, 2 of the brakes needed to be replaced and a tire was completely flat. Two hours for SEM to find someone that could come out and do the work, another hour for that person to arrive, 45 minutes to fix the flat and 1.5 per brake. Lost time = 7+ hours. Canceled my pre-planned loads again because I couldn't make my next load pick up ontime. Now I am left with left over cr@ ppy freight. Lost non-recoverable revenue $987. That was a 154xxx trailer

Would you like me to keep going on. I have shop records for each bad trailer. My bad luck with trailers ended up coming out to 1.5 bad trailers per week on average.

3 weeks ago was my favorite one of all. I had 3 blad tires and 2 that were flat. An ice storm was coming through. SEM tells me to take the trailer 50 miles in the opposite direction to an OC. They sent that qc message twice after I refused to move the trailer in that condition. Took the repair guy 2 hours to show up, he got lost because the directions sem gave him sent him to the OC. Then it took 5.5 hours to replace the tires because he couldn't get the bead to set, his impact wrenches kept freezing up from the ice. Guess what, had to clear the board again since that load I picked with the pre-loaded trailer was suppose to be a short same day delivery. Didn't get delivered until the next day. Lost non-recoverable revenue that week $1326.

Lets see just in those 4 examples that a total of $6400 in non-recoverable revenue. But please keep calling me a lier. You just don't like to see real numbers attached to the same issues you all have had and beeched about on here. Not sure about you but I like to keep my cdl clean without csa points.

Schnieder has a good program with there load board, just a cr@ ppy program when it comes to maintenance. I pay them 35% of my load for what? Long hold times, incorrectly calculated fuel taxes, bad trailers and access to there contract freight. It's that contract freight that keeps me from jumping instatly. There is a reason why I have reserves and it's to cover my expenses when $h!t happens. By no means am I going broke ,but I hate useing my reserves.

 

First of all....you show where I'm constantly complaining about Sni...you can't because you're lying big time...before flappi,h your gums,have your facts straight..

 

You have absolutely the worst luck with trailers I have ever heard of.

 

Boy, you all went full truck driver There for a second. This used to be the best subsection on TTR

 

I've been here 4 years and never been in a shop for a trailer.. I've had blown tires which some have been fixed on the side of the road or I was able to make it to the receiver then let Sni handle it but never have I dealt with your issues. I think you want to be a mechanic more than a driver lol... If the tires are good, lights work, mud flaps, brakes feel good im rolling smh... I'm not gonna do a DOT inspection everytime I pickup a trailer... That's not business smart

 

Amazing. Anytime I had a tire replaced on the side of the road or at a customer I ALWAYS get a 3 way call from the service provider and the road tech to make sure everything is clear. Including directions/location etc.