THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by dieselfuelonly, Nov 1, 2013.

  1. popcorn169

    popcorn169 Road Train Member

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    I am glad that you just explained the pay scenario as I was just looking at how it was done. It was kinda confusing me till you laid it out. I know it tells you what town to pick up and deliver in but does it give you the name of the customer also or is that something you get after you call or email or however you book?
     
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  3. mclass555

    mclass555 Light Load Member

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  4. Little Eddy

    Little Eddy Medium Load Member

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    DFO: If you can indulge a very retro question...you'll have to go down memory lane for a moment...as a company driver did you avail yourself of the per diem program?
    Any thoughts or comments?

    Love the work you do on your threads...very helpful, very informative.

    Little Eddy
     
  5. dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    No you don't see who the customer is until after you booked the load. I book loads on a web-based load board, once I choose a load and click "assign" it takes usually between 30 seconds to 1 minute to assign it to me. Then I can view all of the addresses, etc. Within 5 minutes the assignment will get sent to my Qualcomm device.

    If you are really curious about a load you can call in and get some more information about it.

    Eventually you begin to recognize who is who based on the load zip code, weight, and where it goes to. Appointment windows or set times are also a good indicator. I'd say 80% of the loads I run now I know exactly who the customers at both ends are at before I even book it.
     
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  6. dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    I was on per-diem. I really have no thoughts or opinions on it, I didn't stay a company driver long enough to really concern myself with it. As I understand if you are good at keeping track of all your expenses come tax time you are probably better off NOT being on per-diem. But like I said I'm not really one to ask about the details of that.
     
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  7. sadwar

    sadwar Road Train Member

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    You should get off of company per diem as soon as they let you. Ninety day mark I think. Sni keeps two cents of your pay if they manage your per diem. You make more doing it yourself and it is a piece of cake to do on your taxes.
     
  8. CaptainX3

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    They made it sound like there's a huge difference, but according to other drivers I talked to, the difference is negligible. I have no proof of that, but my guess is that you'll just have a lower balloon payment at the end of a 3 year lease vs a 1 year lease.

    Either way, the balloon payment is too high. I plan on leasing a new truck every 3 years myself, because that way all the major stuff is always under warranty, and I'll be keeping up with newer technologies, better MPG engines, and the like. I figure if I complete 2 or 3 leases and save where I can, I'll probably have enough to snag a good cash truck in several years... Maybe even enough to buy a new one outright, although that might be stretching it, it's too early to tell. Personally, I don't mind paying a lease payment as long as I'm making the money I want. I consider it a business expense the same as if I opened up a retail store and was paying rent on a brick and mortar building.
     
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  9. dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    Moron box planners sending me to locations that don't have any empties and wouldn't release them to a bobtail even if they did. Then trying to send me BACK TO THEORY PLACE I ORIGINALLY DELIVERED TO THAT DVD HAVE ANY EMPTIES IN THEORY FIRST PLACE. Called in to the world's most unhelpful support shift asking for a confirmed empty, not helpful at all and I could tell just by the tone of his voice he isn't going to do jack s***. Lazy *** piece of ****.
     
  10. CaptainX3

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    Find a customer that doesn't have a security checkpoint, go in, hook up to a trailer and run for it. Make sure it's empty first! If someone sees you, what are they gonna do, call the cops for stealing your own #### trailer? LOL.

    If support calls you asking what you're doing, just tell them that you're performing an "aggressive reallocation of available assets" :)
     
  11. dieselfuelonly

    dieselfuelonly Road Train Member

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    Wish I knew more customers down here in Columbia SC. But I'm done wasting my time. I'll just go back in the morning when the original customer I dropped at reopens their offsite empty lot. I wanted to pick up an empty and get very close to my next picking tonight since it was 1-2am, no traffic, great time to just drive, but nope that's too much to ask of our completely incompetent after-hours staffing. What a joke. So I parked it and I'm done for the night.
     
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