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

That sounds like some good runs! When at all possible I do the same. Book my loads in advanced but not to far out. Especially on Tuesdays. I had a habit of running hard to the week's pay ending on Monday and then not have anything picked for late Monday or Tuesday and end up sitting planning my next loads but it would take to long and end up hurting me in long run. When ever possible now I try to have a follow up load to run on even it has some extra time on it just to keep it rolling at the first of the week's pay period, giving the load board a chance to populate with fresh loads and stay on a load at same time. Works better when I can do that. If I can get a high paying load right in the beginning of the week that is even better!

 

When I talked rto SNI about the Choice program she told me that I would have to have 1 year OTR or work for SNI doing OTR for 6 months and then I could go into the Choice program.

Don't know what I am gonna do at this moment have been approved by another carrier to go into their lease program if I choose to.

 

One thing that I'll never understand, is if I have an actual "at" appointment and show up on-time, why I have to wait for a door to open. Don't schedule me for an "at" appointment if you aren't going to load me as soon as I get there, or very shortly after that.

 

Now if you showed up late then they would have a fit and then have to work you in at their convenience and you would have heck to explain. I think you should be able to charge shipper if you did your part right and they did not.

 

I believe that's how we get detention pay. The shipper/consignee pays Schneider $100 and we get $25.

 

I booked many loads which called for me to be fined if I showed up late. The only detention pay I ever collected was from a suit in magistrate court.

 

A little secret stay away from paper mills...if you have to book a paper mill load, I would call before I start my clock. I try to run the same areas. That way you know who takes long to load you.

 

I had a noon appt. and showed up at 1155. Got into a dock at 1430, started loading me at 1530, and didn't get out til 1630. They said they booked over 100 loads for today. Why don't you book enough employees then?