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

I looked everywhere I could and Sarno information showing that they were on the board of directors or anything like that with this company... now I can tell you from experience back when I was with Schneider many years ago when Lofgren took over that he was a problem too many back then and could possibly still be the problem today

 

IT... They'll have it fixed as soon as they get back from the holiday LOL

 

Anyone coming down I-95 in South Carolina today maybe tomorrow as well or coming up from Florida I-95 is underwater at Ridgeland South Carolina they have detours set up

 

Freight is still down. While fuel prices are starting to head back up. I'll be headed to the Midwest come Tuesday. Been on choice for about a month now. Ain't been all good but it ain't been all bad. Economy is still in the tank. Hopefully the eld mandate will have a positive effects on rates. Less truck capacity. l'll try to hang in there until then.

 

I ran into a choice ic 2 wks ago who came from company side and been doing this 2mos and says hes ready to quit because there's no money... I told him that it's going to take several months to learn the system and learn what Lanes you want to run in and Freight patterns but certain customers personally I don't think he's going to hang around I think it's going to quit.... I think a lot of these guys want to come over to this side because they think it's going to be a walk in the park pick your own load and run will you want and run as fast as you want and all this other stuff they're going to find out that driving the truck is the least amount of concern because now they become not only a business owner but a dispatcher and a load planner as well as a driver there's a lot of work involved

 

My 2 cents. It took me about 3 months to get a good idea of the freight lanes and the times certain loads hit the board. I did run everywhere to get an idea of the customers and lanes. I spent almost every available minute looking at the load board trying to study the entire country. Living in Denver there is no swinging by the house. I wasnt a company driver. All of us run a little differently and have been successful at it. I also had TennMan as my mentor which was awesome. I dont think Schneider does enough to prepare new IC'S for the business side, the planning, maintenance along with the 1000 other little items you have to keep up on. Its a huge change in mindset from running as many miles as my dispatcher will give me to surgically putting the best revnue trip vs miles vs where that load is taking me.....many cant not change and that equals failure.

Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave