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

I've been shocked at the quality of the trailers here so far...the worst Schneider trailers are better than the average trailer where I came from. I have seen a lot of bad tires on our stuff though. I had a blowout this week but to be fair there was 45,632lbs of beer back there lol. It's always the ok looking tire that goes, I'll never understand that.

 

The pumpkin trailer pool is exponentially better than it was just a few years ago. I was a company hand from 2007 until the start of 2012, and I haven't had nearly the number of battles with trailers that I had my first couple of years here. I did have a bad streak last year, though. A dozen trailers in the span of a month needing repairs of various types. I let my ICR have it, along with the head of van truckload. I doubt it did any good, but I felt better.

 

I was wondering how that works, someone has to be over van quality. I bet they have different guys for each region, that would be the guy we all need to be calling every time . I say we but i won't be a pumpkin puller till late May

 

I believe Sni has 50k trls....that's quite a bit to manage...I'm sure some slip through the cracks...probably more than anyone will ever say...yes some of those 9xxxxx series trls are due for retirement...lol

 

Big company that's for sure. The company I'm at now only has 250 trucks.

 

I've so been there with some old hopper and auger trailers we use to pull lmao

 

Dude... I saw an A trailer today at the DC i was at, you think the 9's are bad lol, also, not all 9's are crappy, I've had 2 this week and both were in great shape. The ones that give me problems more is the ones drivers get and race on a figure 8 track before droppin it off with "no defects" I've actually had fantastic luck with trailers, in the year I've been here the only issue I've had is hide and go seek with emptys lol.