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

No i dont miss reefer but rates could be nice
Then again i don't know if it would be worth the endless amounts of waiting.

 

Omg you'd clean up in detention pay doing reefer.
As a company driver it sucked though.

 

I left reefer before coming here, i feel your pain.
2am appointments and you don't get unloaded till sunrise

Now I'm dont really talk to anybody. I create my own Schedule and pick whatever loads i want, go where i want. Lots of open window appointments and drop/hooks with having OCs and drop lots all over. Makes for a real easy, less stressful lifestyle in many ways vs working elsewhere as a driver. Not it's not perfect but no job is.
If i ever got more greedy i'd look into flatbed but currently I'm enjoying this lifestyle.

 

Heres the story... Schneider has a ton of trailers and they are buying a lot of news ones BUT problem is there's still a lot of crappy 10+ year old trailers in the pool.
When i can i AVOID them like the plague but when a shipper preloads in one of them that you booked then you're stuck.
Most of them are just beat up, rusted and look like they went through hell and back but they do have problems at times which can be anything.
How you handle it and every situation is different. If it's in really bad shape i call them and tell them to pull me off the load because the trailer is not safe for me to pull anywhere.
They will get mad and try to make you take it somewhere to get fixed but i just whip out they're own "safety first, safety first" crap and drop that on Schneider's face... then they have no choice by to pull me off the load lol