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

Look in Norfolk - lots of Wal-Mart cross dock heading out. No idea what it pays, but that's how I'he gotten out of VA for the last 6 months.

 

How long have you been stuck there?!

 

The only time they get ice on them is when being used. As I'm walking along unhooking my rope i give the tarp a good smack every couple feet and the ice breaks and falls off. Its not like tarps freeze solid and won't fold. They just get a bit stiff when it is real cold, makes folding them back up slightly more difficult. It's really all about your method. If you make the effort to get a good method down, both with how you tarp and then how you fold them up to put them away in the box, it makes tarping relatively easy. It's like anything else really, the preparation can make it easy, or make it hard.

 

Two reasons, most of them won't fit inside a van. And two, they have to be unloaded by over head crane. As far as pay goes, just like everything else it depends. Most do, but occasionally you see cheap ones. But cheap is relative. 2.20 a mile to the truck going 1500 miles i think is cheap when last week i got over 900 to load on one side of the airport, and deliver to the other side. I didn't track the miles but it was under 10. I think the best one I've done recently was something like 150 miles and paid 2k. But it was oversize and i had to babysit it all day.
Note: those kind of loads don't happen everyday so don't read into this that im trying to say flatbeds gross 10 grand a week on 1k miles.

 

All kidding aside. There is some truth to this. When a 1 pebble or a handful of sand can turn your 25 million dollar engine into a 25 million dollar pile of scrap, you get a little picky about who you use to haul it. I'm not saying all van guys are dumb ####s, but enough of them are that i wouldn't risk it with some big box carrier and his fresh out of school been solo driving for two weeks driver.

 

Not All Money Is Good Money.

 

Nope your stay there with your box. I'm not sharing these.

Side note: i pulled a page out of your book yesterday. 4 live unloads and 3 live loads and done by 230 pm. Could of loaded another one but i couldn't leave it on the truck all weekend with a regular customer scheduled 200 miles away for 6 am Monday. And here's the kicker, after 4 pm when i call the agent to give him the info on the loads i ran he says so see ya Monday morning right? We are gonna be running these for at least another week. So you know you got over a week's worth of work lined up and you wait till after 4 pm on a Friday to say anything? Really?