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

thinking chinas economy is more of the driver than the election.

need to ask the containers drivers what they are seeing in the yards.

 

Sometimes it's actually the other way around. Vans get some of the leftover flat freight. Often the vans get a lower rate then the flats do. But it really depends, the way you described it is possible I suppose. In general it takes longer to load/unload a van so depending on the product customers may prefer flats. Too many variables to give an exact answer. Could be company drivers working at .50¢ a mile.....

 

Probably a flatbed load stuck in your trailer, since its 2 to 1.

And we don't know the actual rate. Customer could be paying $10/mi to the carrier while you're getting $2 and thinking its great.

 

All qualcomm messages are routed to the operations team in green bay, then someone in ops forwards the message to your ica/ICR. Now if your ICA/ICR has the widow open for the qualcomm system and are a new message indicator, then they'll respond quickly, otherwise I've sent messages and it took over an hour before a response. Even when I reply back to there message, they take over an hour to respond. As far as I'm concerned the qualcomm is only a one way communication device so they can yell at is when they think we did something wrong.

 

Some freight can go on both a flat or a van. Normally it pays the same except for a small tarp charge of 50 bucks if needed. I've done this on a filler load or a backhaul.

 

That's why the Freightliners are spec'ed like the company trucks, so that they can be rotated into the company fleet in case they get turned in early.

 

The load board looks different lately with the holiday coming up. The company drivers are taking time off and a lot of loads that never make it to the board anymore are suddenly showing back up. Loads I haven't seen in years.

 

on all the dedicated accounts I jave worked on but for a couple like xmas etc , we were expected to be available if we didnt take pto.

this holiday also coincides with end of month to a degree. places my office is seeing pu friday for wed delivery on the first.