Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Dna Mach · Oct 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM

cdavis188 said: ↑

I aim for 10,000 miles a month, if not a bit over. I see no point working myself to death and despair. I take a bit more hometime than the average driver because I actually want to see my family and friends on a regular, consistent basis. One of the main reasons why I went back to regional. That to me is way more important than chasing miles
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supersnackbar said: ↑

If 10,000 miles works you to death, then maybe you shoul have bought a daycab. That kind of mentality has you bordering on being called a flip-flop wearing, steering wheel holding new breed.
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That makes no sense SSB. You’re constantly angry and stressed out and for what? An extra 500 miles a week that you have to get to survive?

I’m glad to be in that 10k mile per month club, life’s to short to wither away on the road. I could survive on less but why would I want to? I put all my extra earnings into my 401k. I do wear work boots though….I pull a tanker so PPE is required.

BM 58 · Oct 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM

I’ve followed ssb’s threads for years. He’s never been happy for any length of time with the dozens of mega turd carriers he’s worked for. You can bet that if he’s gets the job driving the yellow chicken truck two months into it he’ll be whining about that place too.

azheavyduty · Oct 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM

BM 58 said: ↑

I’ve followed ssb’s threads for years. He’s never been happy for any length of time with the dozens of mega turd carriers he’s worked for. You can bet that if he’s gets the job driving the yellow chicken truck two months into it he’ll be whining about that place too.
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BS. He was happy at Moore and SPD until they were sold out and started making crappy changes. When they were running him hard, he had few complaints.

mstrchf117 · Oct 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM

BeHereNow97 said: ↑

Well looking at this:

That tells me they're throttling Snackbar's miles if other drivers are taking a week off but getting the same amount of miles as Snackbar gets when he stays out 2 months (or however long he usually stays out for).

I don't think they're specifically throttling JUST Snackbar's miles though. It's probably a company procedure to get everyone to the quarterly bonus, which means getting everyone to their 10,000 miles per month (or something like that I don't know the specific miles required to achieve bonus).

So when Snackbar runs hard the first half of the month and gets 7,000 miles for the first 15 days of the month, dispatch throttles his miles for the last half of the month because they know he's not going home. So they'll give him the short runs which are probably more profitable for the company and give the long miles to the drivers who aren't as close to the bonus as Snackbar is. Dispatch doesn't care if Snackbar only runs 350 miles a day on average, they're not paying him extra to sit on loads for long periods of time. It doesn't cost them anything for Snackbar to be a free babysitter and security guard for their freight.

That's my guess as to how it all works there, I could be wrong though. But it's clear to me that Snackbar's miles always get throttled, this happens to him every quarter without fail despite him never going home. It seems to be Crete's business model.

I hope you get the job at that company you're looking at Snackbar, you deserve a good home.
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This is kinda what I think happens. It seems like if I stay out early, I get a lot of miles then it dries up close to the end of the quarter, but if I go home early, I get a push at the end to try and make the bonus. I try not to worry about it too much. I think they dont want to pay a ton out for the bonus so throttle it. I might maybe possibly hit $100k this year, but idk. I also make i think 6 or 7 cpm more than ssb because they cut pay for new hires, but not existing drivers a couple years ago.

BM 58 · Oct 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM

He still griped about both of those two. Dude stays unhappy. It’s a shame.

drvrtech77 · Oct 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM

azheavyduty said: ↑

BS. He was happy at Moore and SPD until they were sold out and started making crappy changes. When they were running him hard, he had few complaints.
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The problem is the very minute he has bad week which everyone does time to time he goes off the rails and starts bellyaching and such that he starts talking about quitting…

BM 58 · Oct 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Yep.

drvrtech77 · Oct 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM

Our insurance isn’t going up and some coverage is as improved

supersnackbar · Oct 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM

drvrtech77 said: ↑

The problem is the very minute he has bad week which everyone does time to time he goes off the rails and starts bellyaching and such that he starts talking about quitting…
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'A' bad week? Try 3 bad weeks mo-fo. And if Einstein doesn't push to get a load that delivers by Friday's payroll cutoff, it will be 4 in a row. If that happened to you, you would be calling every exec you could to try to get someone fired (or that would be what you tell everybody, whether it really happenes that way or it might be you're just being a big talking know it all thinking people are impressed by your mouth, if they believe your b.s.)

azheavyduty said: ↑

BS. He was happy at Moore and SPD until they were sold out and started making crappy changes. When they were running him hard, he had few complaints.
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You really don't even have to go that far back, after my July hometime, for 5 or 6 weeks I was running good miles, and I didn't have any negativity to post. But the following 3 weeks wiped away all the gains I made during those weeks.

Dna Mach said: ↑

That makes no sense SSB. You’re constantly angry and stressed out and for what? An extra 500 miles a week that you have to get to survive?

I’m glad to be in that 10k mile per month club, life’s to short to wither away on the road. I could survive on less but why would I want to? I put all my extra earnings into my 401k. I do wear work boots though….I pull a tanker so PPE is required.
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It goes beyond being down 500+ miles a week. At 10k, I am paying the bills, but part of the reason I push for the extra is to try to get my savings built back up. Yes, I did get a little careless in spending when I was at SPD, thinking that I had found a company I could replenish my savings more easily, and it wasn't long after that, was when SPD changed their pay, then Daseke made their changes, and sold out, then W-TFI made their changes, and the savings started being used to cover the pay drop. The way things are going, I am trying to build up another cushion for when the economy tanks even further. And with the Ego-in-Chief we have now, the way it's going, he's gonna embargo the economy into a depression.

Trucker61016 · Oct 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM

supersnackbar said: ↑

'A' bad week? Try 3 bad weeks mo-fo. And if Einstein doesn't push to get a load that delivers by Friday's payroll cutoff, it will be 4 in a row. If that happened to you, you would be calling every exec you could to try to get someone fired (or that would be what you tell everybody, whether it really happenes that way or it might be you're just being a big talking know it all thinking people are impressed by your mouth, if they believe your b.s.)

You really don't even have to go that far back, after my July hometime, for 5 or 6 weeks I was running good miles, and I didn't have any negativity to post. But the following 3 weeks wiped away all the gains I made during those weeks.

It goes beyond being down 500+ miles a week. At 10k, I am paying the bills, but part of the reason I push for the extra is to try to get my savings built back up. Yes, I did get a little careless in spending when I was at SPD, thinking that I had found a company I could replenish my savings more easily, and it wasn't long after that, was when SPD changed their pay, then Daseke made their changes, and sold out, then W-TFI made their changes, and the savings started being used to cover the pay drop. The way things are going, I am trying to build up another cushion for when the economy tanks even further. And with the Ego-in-Chief we have now, the way it's going, he's gonna embargo the economy into a depression.
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Well honestly a recession or depression will bring the market back to normal it's been inflated ever since before COVID...then the economy has been on fire with constant gains since 2021....by the way a recession followed by a correction in the Market would bring trucking rates back up because they'll need to replenish the shelves.....it's needed to crash for some time honestly....

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