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

As with picking anything in this industry there's pros and cons with everything.

Yes I'd have to deal with another person and I'd lose my privacy but I could earn a lot more money and pay a driver good as well.
Just something I'm thinking about.

 

When lease is up I'll choose between...
Buying my leased truck and running it
Buying my leased truck, running it for a bit then selling it.
Get a new Glider
Get a new truck

I don't think I have it within me to buy a used truck, I just wouldnt want to risk buying someone else's problems.

 

I was forced into teaming twice while in "training"... yeah it kinda sucks.

However i look at is as I'm paying all this money for a truck, I might as well get the most out of it while I'm out here working.
Then I could afford to take more time off and enjoy my time off even more. So while the teaming part sucks the reward for doing it is pretty good.

 

In our Schenider quarterly update in our media messages:

"As the year progresses we continue to see freight similar to 2009 levels"

In other words BAD!

 

Hopefully all this lack of freight/cheap freight forces out a lot of the dummy drivers.
Part of the problem is there's too many truck drivers working for peanuts.