Starting Schneider National Dedicated Flex Fleet

Opus · May 12, 2023

Sounds like a grand adventure.
Well done

gentleroger · May 12, 2023

vipie1992 said: ↑

been almost a year since i last posted. i'm still here.

in the past year i've worked the following accounts: metrie, schwan's pennsylvania, home depot kentucky, walmart london, dollar general janesville, walmart sterling, syndicate sales, lowes pennsylvania, home depot kansas city, and now master halco kansas city. good times. finally drove my truck further west than colorado, and i had a quick adventure out to arizona and california before heading back to the central usa.

i also decided to start using my "hometime" to travel the world and attend concerts. i have now been to canada, iceland, denmark, sweden, and new zealand. japan and antarctica are on the horizon as i've found my wanderlust to be insatiable. i've come to realize that the time management skills i've acquired via trucking are also incredibly useful when planning vacations and knowing how to maximize my time in different places.

NDF switched to hourly from salary. i get paid more now on hourly than i did on salary so i'm happy with it. there is now an incentive to grind for more hours, and the ability to make quite a hefty check if you're on an account that can run all 70 hours in a week, and also have your 4 week stay-out bonus. i've been having a hard time breaking out of my salary-efficiency mindset though. when you're on salary there is an incentive to do your work as efficiently and quickly as possible so you have more time to chill later. i didn't want to waste any more time than i have to and i like to get it done asap. however, on hourly pay there is more incentive to take your time doing things to maximize your clock. i tried that, but i start to feel anxious when i think i'm being inefficient, so i've just continued to be extremely efficient with my time and hope that someone somewhere notices lmao.

if anyone ever has any questions about NDF or any of the accounts i've worked don't hesitate to reply in this thread. i'll get an email notification and eventually reply if i can.

yall stay safe out there and be kind
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I was thinking of you a couple three weeks ago when I had a master halco trainee, but he flamed out before I could ask you about the account.

I'm glad you're doing well and are happy. I've also struggled with this transition to the new pay structure - are you purely hourly or a mix of mileage and hourly for line 4 time? Like you my instinct is to minimize my on duty time so I have more options. What I've found works for me is to log conservatively early in the week until I have hours to make it back home, then EVERYTHING is on duty after that, and once I'm home I will go back and edit all of the off duty from earlier in the week to on duty.

Chinatown · May 12, 2023

@tree_climber - read post #210 about Schneider National Dedicated Flex Fleet

Chinatown · May 12, 2023

@DeeJac - read post #210 about Schneider National Dedicated Flex Fleet

vipie1992 · May 12, 2023

gentleroger said: ↑

I was thinking of you a couple three weeks ago when I had a master halco trainee, but he flamed out before I could ask you about the account.

I'm glad you're doing well and are happy. I've also struggled with this transition to the new pay structure - are you purely hourly or a mix of mileage and hourly for line 4 time? Like you my instinct is to minimize my on duty time so I have more options. What I've found works for me is to log conservatively early in the week until I have hours to make it back home, then EVERYTHING is on duty after that, and once I'm home I will go back and edit all of the off duty from earlier in the week to on duty.
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i'm purely hourly now. both drive time and on duty time are paid the same. if we get to 45 hours in a week we're guaranteed a flat rate depending on our tenure. for me its $1350 for my 45th hour up to the 56th hour, and then on the 57th hour I start making more. $24.05 is my hourly rate so if i get all 70 hours that's $1683. if i add in the $400 stay out bonus and a $46 performance bonus, that's the potential to gross $2129; which I did for a couple weeks in a row on the walmart account in sterling. it was fabulous.

i've also run some accounts that just barely made it to the 45 hour mark by the end of the week, though. it sucks to go from that huge gross one week to a smaller gross. in the end, as long as i get to 45 hours every week i'm still making more than i did on salary, so i've got no reason to complain (yet).

Opus · May 12, 2023

Man, that's just confusing to me, but I'm old so give me that.
X per mile, X per hour.......and we're good

vipie1992 · May 12, 2023

Opus said: ↑

Man, that's just confusing to me, but I'm old so give me that.
X per mile, X per hour.......and we're good
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oh yeah, i agree and im relatively young lol.

i'm sure they're having a hard time explaining this to the new hire NDFs that are just now coming into this system. for awhile the NDF job listing was removed from the schneiderjobs site, and i bet its because they were trying to figure out a way to advertise the position in a way that isn't completely confusing. it's hard enough as it is explaining what exactly NDF is to someone who knows little to nothing about trucking, try adding on all this extra hourly stuff on top and it's enough to melt the strongest of brains. lol.

i had to sit down and write it out on paper after my leader told me, and it still barely made sense lmao. once the check stubs started coming in then i really understood it.

gentleroger · May 12, 2023

vipie1992 said: ↑

oh yeah, i agree and im relatively young lol.

i'm sure they're having a hard time explaining this to the new hire NDFs that are just now coming into this system. for awhile the NDF job listing was removed from the schneiderjobs site, and i bet its because they were trying to figure out a way to advertise the position in a way that isn't completely confusing. it's hard enough as it is explaining what exactly NDF is to someone who knows little to nothing about trucking, try adding on all this extra hourly stuff on top and it's enough to melt the strongest of brains. lol.

i had to sit down and write it out on paper after my leader told me, and it still barely made sense lmao. once the check stubs started coming in then i really understood it.
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Forget your "non-standard freaky deaky deal", most of our office workers don't understand our basic OTR pay structure - new or old. And they still haven't caught on to the fact that it's now better for us to burn the heck out our 70 so we don't get a short haul load Friday afternoon. Late February I was in early on Friday and I was asked if I could cover a local load. Under the old pay structure I would have jumped at it becuase it would have paid my $35 an hour. However under the 'new' pay structure it was more beneficial for me to have stayed on line 4 while being unloaded that morning. Yeah, I made $60 less than I could have (under the new pay structure), but I was done 4 hours earlier. I'll take that trade off without a thought - but offer me $140 for those 4 hours my opinion will change.

I used to make sure I had time to do local load and stages when I hit the house - as long as I was home for dinner I didn't care if what happened before that. Now I want my 70 to expire just after I get to GB, and 'somehow' that seems to happen every week.

Chinatown · May 12, 2023

vipie1992 said: ↑

i'm purely hourly now. both drive time and on duty time are paid the same. if we get to 45 hours in a week we're guaranteed a flat rate depending on our tenure. for me its $1350 for my 45th hour up to the 56th hour, and then on the 57th hour I start making more. $24.05 is my hourly rate so if i get all 70 hours that's $1683. if i add in the $400 stay out bonus and a $46 performance bonus, that's the potential to gross $2129; which I did for a couple weeks in a row on the walmart account in sterling. it was fabulous.

i've also run some accounts that just barely made it to the 45 hour mark by the end of the week, though. it sucks to go from that huge gross one week to a smaller gross. in the end, as long as i get to 45 hours every week i'm still making more than i did on salary, so i've got no reason to complain (yet).
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