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Anywhere from 2000 - 3000+, all depends on how well the week goes. Too many variables. Ive been driving for 11 months now and take home anywhere from $300 - $900 per week, usually its in the $500-$750 range. Sometimes you get to drive your ### off, other times it doesnt work out that way.

 

Just out of curiosity Nakmuay, are you saying that any new driver is a candidate for a local job with more pay simply because they sat the extra 15 minutes to take the tanker/doubles&trpls endorsements? As for local jobs, all I see is that they are wanting 1-2 years exp, especially for tankers (other than the class B propane and water trucks, or driving a flatbed to construction sites for $15/hr). Or are you talking LTL? They're also asking for 6 months min. and I doubt they'll let me make use of my doubles & triples endorsement any time soon,even if they did hire me.

I'd like that to be the case, but if it were, I would think that everyone would be adding those extra endorsements since they're easy tests (and freebies).

 

I'm sorry I didn't clarify. My wife and I won't team. I'm just saying she and I were talking about because she is my business partner. My money goes to her then she gives me my allowance each week. I would "lol" but it's true.

 

That's ome of the best ways to handle money in a relationship. Too bad I can't find a woman who can handle it. You're a luckg man sir.

 

OK, friends....sum it up for me. Give me the very latest good, bad, and ugly about SNI. Been at Crete six months, and I've just about had enough of their shortsightedness.
How is Workflow going? Have you noticed a decrease in wait time between delivery and the next load? How about empty trailers?

I've got my "Come Back to Schneider" letter in my pocket and I'm not afraid to use it.

 

I talked to someone recently who left SNI after a few months because he couldn't afford to work there -- and went to Crete! I suspect there may have been certain parts of the story I wasn't privy to. Whatever the case, the first year, I'm prepared to just grind it out no matter what, get the exp. and hope to be treated at least slightly better than cattle.

 

They seem to finally have figured out most of the WorkFlow issues. Rarely do I have a problem that requires a call. There are still a few small things but they aren't very common problems. One is that the BoL field in the work assignments only has room for 14 numbers/letters. We all know about the GP loads with the 18 number BoL. If a customer needs the last 4 you have to call in because you can't see them.

There's still the issue of phone numbers being wrong or non existent and occasionally a wrong name or address.

I almost always have my next assignment before making delivery on my current active assignment. Usually it's within the last 5 miles but I've had a couple over the past few weeks that were 12+ hours before scheduled delivery. It's nice knowing where you're heading before hand.

Empty trailers are still hit and miss. If the customer has any it's pretty simple. Send the List Request message. Once you get the list select a trailer from it and click accept. If there aren't any, send the list message, then when it comes back if there are any just click exceptions and tell them the trailers are either loaded or not there. Then leave the 3 fields for alternate numbers blank and they should have something figured out shortly.

The empty trailer list does not populate until you send that empty request message. There is no guarantee that the trailer you want will be on the list either. Again, send an exception and they will assign the one you want.

The method of sending the Empty request thing is something they recently started doing. Apparently that is the way it was supposed to be getting done from the beginning, but somebody decided that none of the drivers needed to know that. Every time we were sending the Exceptions without the request first it would error out in the system and somebody would have to manually fix it. As such they've also stopped giving out the numbers for empties at OCs. They will not tell you at the fuel desk.

 

Decided that I don't feel like bumping off my 70hr clock for the rest of the week so I'm going to take a 34. At least I'm in Miami. Going to pay the $15 to park my truck at a local stop and then go get a hotel room down on Miami Beach. Going to spend a couples nights relaxing.

 

I feel u on the allowance part LOL gotta love being married

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That pretty much sums it up. The initial problems with WF were less software issues and more user side issues in the office/management side. They apparently needed extra time to learn and get used to the system on their end. It seems like things have gotten more smooth.