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

It's just desperate people who don't have the critical thinking skills and are swayed by recruiting - many are chasing a dream and don't have the patience of knowledge to know to avoid the scams. Yeah I understand it's basic math and so do many of you, but we all know there's plenty of YouTube videos with drivers parroting what they were taught in orientation showing us all how easy it will be to make $1,500 a week after payments...

Sad really...

 

That's only thing holding me up lol, gf n son eat my cash up

 

That's why I was informed by my SFI rep last week in Charlotte last week that they have begun to crack down and now making it very picky who they approved to come under this program because they're tired of people running for two months and give it up and turn the truck back in because it's not easy.... Running a business was never meant to be easy but some of these fools think it's supposed to be and give it up and I hope a lot of them weed themselves out here very soon because they have no business being on this program

 

I've been told that they are now being very picky who they're bringing on to this program now because of all the people that have turned trucks in after 2 months

 

Sitting just a little tall on that high horse? Look just a little farther out than the end of the week.

Yes, on a weekly basis a well paid company mule might make more. And yes, I am one of those suckers.

So what's the benefit? Take that company mule and deduct an amount sufficient to cobble together a down payment. Now who is ahead? Five years down the road when the mule has enough cobbled together my flease will have been paid for a year prior. I won't have been hounded like the company mule during that time, either.

Not quite as bad as you profess it to be.

Just a couple of other points: I don't have a balloon payment at lease end (unless you consider $1 a balloon). Each week I don't work sets me back $270 for ALL costs.

TA
(Go ahead and laugh at my choice but I don't think it was a bad route)

 

FW, I've been saying that same thing for years. I've come to realize that facts and hard numbers don't mean anything to these people. It's all about emotions with them. They want to say they have a truck so bad that they intentional ignore every bit of evidence that shows they are going at it in the worse possible way.

 

It was crappy in 1994 when fuel was $.96/gal and is worse pay today. BF Goodridge were $275/tire. I wouldn't run that cheap then and I certainly wouldn't do it today. I bought a brand new 379 for $96,000 and after my down payment my payments were $2100/month for 4 years.
I can't figure out why someone would spend $3,000/month and work for the same money I refused to 22 years ago.