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

The question I have is are any of you guys shocked??? I mean they do have company trucks so in all reality they're gonna try to put their best freight on em. Yea it's a messed up situation but what are you gonna do. That comes with the territory of leading on.

 

What is he mad his recruiting days here are over? LOL that guys a joke, although he still has a following from a contributor of this thread... SMDH

 

Just to add to the post regarding the loads from Bear River City to Mehoopany. (By the way, I got a heads up on those loads, and they disappeared before I had a chance to log in, LOL)

Anyhow, I have (had) found myself an nice little niche that allowed me to run west instead of east. Been doing this for a while now, basically getting a load out to Casa Grande (TSC), then running some nice paying short loads, followed up with something longer out back towards the house. I was turning some nice money in the course of a week or so.

Then, loads got difficult to grab out of Casa Grande, other than mediocre loads that paid decent but went longer distance to crap areas. I managed by getting on a couple Solar farm loads out to Colorado, and finding my way home with a cheap load from there.

During this time, I spoke with drivers at the Phoenix yard (company drivers), literally complaining about having to do short haul loads out of TSC in Casa Grande. Absorbed that information and got it confirmed today by somebody else (protecting that source, but it is solid) who flat out told me that all the local (Arizona) and California loads are not released to the IC board unless they can't get company trucks to cover them. These are not dedicated loads, so they are supposed to be available to us.

I could literally drop a load out there in the afternoon, pick up one of these short loads and have it delivered early the next morning, be back in Casa Grande for maybe another short one for the following day, and then back to Casa Grande or the Phoenix area with something headed in the direction of home. The loads, if you can get them and time them right, pay great.

I guess that is just the price you pay for running your own truck where company trucks also run.

Sucks for company drivers as well, because nobody running by the mile at company driver pay wants to grab a load that goes 80-100 miles in the middle of the afternoon, that doesn't deliver until the following morning. For an IC, that 400-600 for a local load out in the less populated western United States is great!

 

This is the way it's always been, the board has always been leftovers there just used to be a lot more leftovers.
THE BOA5D HAS ALWAYS BEEN MANIPULATED BY CUSTOMER SERVICE.

It's just that since freight capacity is so low more of you are paying more attention.

 

Oh, I get that. It is sometimes a good thing though to have slow freight expose activity like this.

And, it's not customer service. Customer Service simply wants their customers taken care of. This comes from the bean counters that want more money kept in house.

Customer service would clearly be better served by having every load made available to us, as that would help ensure loads were better covered.

 

Yep. Same issues at Landstar where they urge their agents to outsource. It's ugly everywhere. Everybody is just trying to survive, and apparently it's everybody for themselves.

 

Chances are high they won't get caught, unless two IC's know each other and check on each other's load like this situation. They prob get away with doing it several times a day.

 

No it's not realistic to pull multiple great paying loads every day. 1 a day and occasionally a second yes. But it's not like you are able to net a grand a day pulling a van doing d&h every day.

Staying in the truck while the forklift operator loads is not uncommon. That's just the shipper trying to cover their bases in this lawsuit happy climate. Basically protecting their assets from stupidity. Usually in those cases the leading process is very fast, maybe ten minutes. Then you either pull forward to a spot for securing, or you do it there and the forklift moves to another truck.