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

Yeah but i mean that only says so much.
For example that says National average for Dry Van is $1.60, I average more than that all miles including deadhead all the while giving up 35%. That's only possible because I do shorter loads and keep deadhead low.

 

I don't know how much I would trust those numbers either...reefer usually commands a bit higher rate than van.

 

PACCAR would be out of business by Christmas!

 

A stripped Kenworth? Where's the "Advantage" there?
Yeah I'd pass on that.

For the record if I could do things all over again I would do a one year flease on a Crapcadia to see if I could make it... then go to Lonemountain and get a Kenworth.

I've met a bunch of Freightliner ICs here that had emissions problems.
All these trucks it's a roll of the dice.

 

You can drill down a little deeper from that page. Shows Chicago market at $1.92 average, and 2.65 chicago to Detroit being the highest average lane in the market. Clearly, the short loads will go above that averate, and the longer loads will typically drop down below the average.

What is interesting to me is the south market numbers. Schneider is falling well below the average in Texas according to these numbers, at least from what I am seeing.

 

I meant that like the EVO in general as far as they are specd for maximum economy(different fairings, PACCAR/Eaton coordinated drivetrain, etc)
Every new truck has problems, but DD15s in general seem to have less than the others. I would also be curious to know whether or not the other ICs you have spoken to idled excessively due to having that crappy EPU that never works right...constantly idling ANY DPF/SCR truck causes problems with the after treatment.

 

Looks like SFI is trying to lure drivers into those 3 year leases with no money up front all the while charging $4-$5k on a one year.
Those down payments arent money out the window, you get that money back at the end of the term or at least it was that way when I signed up.

 

Please listen to me, buy a truck. This on guard is intolerable as well as the financial benefits of owning your own truck. I'm looking into buying and am considering my options right now.

 

If they are offering a Kenworth at zero down and another at $7k down the zero down one has got to be stripped.

 

Good point...I'll try to find out more when I speak to them again. Said the zero down is a "Summer special" on those two trucks, but that just boils down to a sales pitch and alterior motive of some kind.