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

What are your long term goals? Own authority? Maybe new career? You've been a hoot since day 1. Ive enjoyed the ride.

 

Here was my plan and comparison to what I did solo.

Solo was like $2,400- $2,800 after costs working a full week.
Would stay out 3-4 weeks and take a week off.

For team I planned on each driver working within two 12 hour shifts.. aiming for 550 miles a shift per driver.
Doing that 6 days for 6600 miles and taking a reset.
Aiming for $1.30 all miles that's $8,580 gross. Bare in my most all loads are long and drop/hook
That's what my general goal that I figured I would aim for.
Anyway figure fuel at 7.5 mpg at $2.20 plus DEF say $2,000 a week

Truck payment is going up $314 a week, maintenance account another $100.
I'm getting $5000 bonus for switching over to team paid out over 6 months.
So for now i figure thats pretty much an extra $250 a week. That factored in weekly costs goes up an extra $164 a week... for 6 months then that changes.
Sooo that overall should put me around $1268 each week factoring everything in including the bonus I'm getting paid

So $8580 -$2000 in fuel -$1268 = $5312
Take that amount and figure whatever would go to your co driver then yourself.
Lets just say $1,700 to the driver with taxes and everything then that leaves you $3,600.
Or about $1000 or so more per week than I'd normally earn.

That's a for instance and what i planned/aimed for.
Real world is differently obviously and I'm currently a noob on this board figuring things out.
Tuesday literally at 00:00 through today currently we've done 4840 miles and revenue is currently $7068. So like $1.46.. and got about 4 hours driving time left do to today but there's zero loads around within 200 miles around me rest of the weekend and after that it's all crap soo i dunno what I'm going to do yet.

Another thing is my codriver wants to work all the time, sooo I can dispatch the driver while I'm off of work. I'll make a little bit of money doing that better than a sitting truck I'm paying $1300 a week on.
Overall i think i can earn an extra $4,000+ a month doing this.. that is at least for 6 months then that team bonus is bbye.
Plus it's something different, it's been fun so far. Nice not having to do 2-3 loads a day in my one shift running in the same circles. I did well doing it but it sucks and got boring.

 

I don't know, just saving up money for now.
Trying to sell the Viper and next is the house as well. Stuff is nice but i dont like the payments for things I'm rarely in lol

 

lol that too

 

Yeah but they could put the solo loads for us to do too.
We have to a lot more deadhead more because they barely put any loads on the team board.

 

Why should I put Solo loads on the team board? You want to run solo loads just go solo because all that would do is screw the solo drivers... Like I said Schneider is not a team oriented company never have been

 

lol, there's barely any teams here. It wouldn't make much a difference.

For example there was a load to Michigan i looked into this week but then saw there was ZERO loads in Michigan all week. That's just ridiculous

 

That ain't no lie lol. It is slim pickings! That's why you don't have your next load yet. I've been there many times. I've been stuck waiting for something...anything to post, only to give up and dead head 300 miles. I'm not afraid to dead head, I will drive 400+ in order not to haul .79 freight. They can put it on their company trucks or let it sit and rot for all I care.

 

First of all I don't know if anybody else has told you this but I hate to burst your bubble... But we've been telling you told you so the team board over here sucks always has and people warned you now you go over to the team side and you're complaining about it... I understand you want to make money but you're on the borderline of getting greedy and it's going to backfire on you and blow up in your face because right now Freight levels are down and it looks like it's going to get worse

 

he also said the residual drops by 7k too.