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

Everybody is different.. doing makes you happy is most important.
Balancing money vs lifestyle also.

Me personally on choice I generally like to stay out 3-5 weeks and rake in the cash and then take a lot of time off and enjoy it.
I have pondered working monday through friday and taking weekends off wherever I land also just to do something different. Enterprise rents cars for $10 a day friday to monday and they pick you u up and drop you off.
I've done that endless times since I became a driver.
Being home isn't a big deal for me.

 

Rates are fine in the Carolina's.. I've been there a few times but not often.
Generally the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast you can do well. Not as much freight and big bucks in the Southeast but there's still good freight there. Winter time rates took a dump down south because many drivers flooded the market being scared of the cold.
Strangely I got my best Northeast loads during winter when supposedly freight sucks during winter but I guess that's because the Northeast got blasted by storm after storm and freight backed up and drivers didn't want to go near that crap. I remember during winter I'll never forget this lol I saw a MA to IA load for over $1.90 ... will probably never see that again.


Oh and as far as website yeah Schneider has info on their site of the program and youtube videos (posted one on first post of this thread) but that only goes so far.
Finding out pay and rates is a pain in the behind and Schneider doesn't like to talk about it..
In fact any freaking place that pays % I found that they didn't like to talk specifically about their customers and pay.
I had to badger drivers all the time to suck out info from them.
The drivers at Schneider sure know that I asked endless questions before I came.
And yes there's LOTS of cheap fright here too but that doesn't mean you have to take it.
There's good and bad loads everywhere but the greatness of picking your own loads is that you don't have to PICK cheap freight.
Doesn't have to be here.. Landstar and Mercer is similar but have their differences.
All I know is I don't trust nobody especially a desk jockey or recruiter lol and leaving it all on me is the way I like it. If I screw up, don't work, drive for cheap etc etc I can't blame anybody but myself.

 

yes (to visit family) and it sucks... you better get good rates going to FL because you'll be taking a beating coming out.
No matter who you work for they'll tell you Florida sucks.
MAYBE with a reefer it's okay but I wouldn't know about that.
Shaffer sent to me FL a few times and I took OJ out.

 

Whatever you do don't go further south than Jacksonville because if you do then it's really peanuts coming out.
I have seen $3 loads go to Southern Florida a couple times but that's because you'll be driving for fuel money on the way out lol.