Running With Schneider!

When I first started making 26 cents a mile, my first check shocked me because they send my to Crockett, CA to C&H sugar (aka domino foods). It was stressful, 7+ hour load time, I got lost, but when I saw my check for the first time, it was all worth it. I made $600+. That was rookie pay too. So with that said, theres money to be made out there as a company driver. If your going regional your 90 days, you will be everywhere on the 11. After you get past 90 days and get a you offical dbl, your loads will become really predictable when you go to certain cities. Sometimes they will make you do short errand runs but after a couple of those, they got you heading out with a 800+ mile load.

With that said, I've been with SNI for almost 8 months. Time just flys! You will remember your first month vividly, and after that...its just a blur to remember what happened in the last 36 hours lol. I currently switch positions to an Amazon dedicated account. I probably haul 2 Amazon loads in a week, the rest are Home depot loads or Wal mart loads bringing me back to the Fontana area. I average 2000 miles week and get weekends off. Less stressful and my checks are only $150 off of my average checks running western 11. I like SNI because of the amount of room to move around and different positions they offer. Hope this helps. Oh yeah, I was able to save about $8k being OTR....in about 5 months. So if your really good at budgeting, then you can save alot of money too.....

 

Run regional for them......Here it is........
[h=3]Regional Dispatch[/h]As a Regional owner-operator with Schneider, you’ll operate exclusively in the Western six states (California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho).

 

i hated going to c&h in crockett when i was with sni, but i dont think id mind too much now that im paid hourly doing P/D. Id have to find a way to lay down across the seats in my daycab haha

 

Just a general topic question.....

Do you take your restarts on the road? If and when I do get to run choice, I am going to try and route myself home to take it there. Why stay out on the road for 34 hours if you don't have to. I realize that there will be times when it is not feeseable but I will try to work it in......

 

Atruckr, thanks for keeping this thread updated, I'm really interested in getting on the choice program with Schneider at some point in the near future so its nice to read about what all I could expect here.

 

atruckr thanks a bunch for your postings, I've been following you not in a creepy way, just trying make a hard decision, I'm qualified to lease my truck with Sni and Landstar but can't decide, would you tell us how you did with those Laredo loads? does sni have plenty of long haul loads(1000+mi) or perhaps thats left to the intermodal division no? I have a packet from Landstar's load board that has the loads and rates from Laredo and back, I haven't seen the Sni board. Thanks for all you do

 

why did you leave landstar if you don't mind me asking?