Schneider Chat Room version 2.0

Parking drives me nuts. When the sun goes down, the parking lots fill up. I prefer to run early too. Makes me wonder if anyone runs overnight anymore.

 

burning your clock is going to make you the most money. why not take, for example, half of saturday and all day sunday off and have the reset and get a great load monday morning. i rather not only have 10 or so hours off every day for 6 weeks when i can run 2500 to 3000 in 6 and a half days and take the reset.

 

When I first started I ran overnight for the first 4 months until my dbl stopped all the drop and hook so I started running 3 am ish

 

running between 8.5 and 9 hrs a day you will constantly have the same hrs available everyday for however long you stay out who wants to take a reset away from home. Burning money in the truck stop or at the oc

 

I like running my hours out and then doing a restart. I like my day and a half off. But I also stay out for a long time. Its been the only way I can make money here. I tried the 9 hour a day routine for an entire month and it was a disaster. The lowest paying month I had. All 300 -\+ runs that I couldnt drop or deliver early.

 

I saw some Schneider trucks on you tube dumping grain on a Truck Dumper. Does anyone know what elevators or mills have truck dumpers for unloading grain?

 

It all depends on the individual what works for them. We all have a style that works for us. The trick is finding our own style. I run 8-10 off my 70 a day usually which results in:

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This is working an average of 6 days a week, using just paid miles, and not including training pay. It's what works for me, but I prefer the short loads. My highest earnings per mile (both paid and practicle mile) was on a week with an aver LOH of under 300 miles. I ended up earning $.48 cpm that week, IMO short haul pay rocks.

But that's me, not someone else. Yesterday I had a pickup in MO where we have to do a double drop and hook (pull your load from the door, put empty in that door, rehook to your load). I showed up at the same time as another SNI driver - before you ask not a rookie (I meet him sometime last spring). I dropped my mt, put a Chizeck trailer in a dock (it's driver 'couldn't get it in' so she just dropped it in the middle of the yard), grabbed my loaded trailer, let the other SNI guy just back into that spot. Rehooked to my my, helped the other SNI guy couple, backed my mt into his dock, rehooked to my load, did a full PTI, got my paper work and left. We were both dropping at the yard in Edwardsville. By the time he ingated I'd dropped my load, hooked to the relay I was taking out and run it thru express bay (upper marker light).

The differnce isn't skill but rather the way I work. When I'm working, I'm WORKING. Not a second wasted if I can help it so when I get the short haul loads they don't slow me down that much.

 

look at it how you want but doing it that way, i just think if my paycheck reflects what i did from sunday to saturday, if i run 9 hours each day, i just wasted 7 hours of which ill never see, week after week. while if i use 70 or as much paid drive time as possible within that same period, ive made the most i can in a pay period. the extra 7 hours a week adds up in a year.

 

Post a link please. I'm pretty sure those weren't SNI trucks. Possibly old, sold power units, but probably not current

 

Exactly, I ran 3k miles for the wee ending yesterday. I am gaining 8.5-9.5 hours back every day. I will still deliver 20 hours early and make it home for days off. What is that about working smarter vs. Harder?