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

Oh come on grab a beer load. There the best.

 

too heavy!

 

Oh I see you don't want to hurt your truck.. To funny

 

Take runs to the west too if you like dry warm weather! I'm in AZ, 80 degrees during daytime and about 60 here now and suppose to get down to 44 later tonight ... perfect!

 

43,000 lbs of Coors in the box right now and 7.4 mpg through Colorado and Kansas. Suck on that Pete 379 drivers... hehe.

In all seriousness though... I've heard a lot of people mention about staying away from heavy loads, but over 90% of everything I see on the load board is over 40,000. In the last 3 weeks I managed to snag one load that was 18,000. My next load going to Walmart in OH is supposedly less than 5,000 lbs, but I'm not holding my breath on that being accurate.

 

where you at atruckr, in Arizona @ peelot in Kingman, will be runnin 40 outta here tomorrow, about mpg DFO, normally get low 7's with this Fat Princess, been pullin high 8's here

 

I guess I've just had enough of Schneider's rules which are more stringent than the fmcsa's. No handsfree or we terninate your lease. Don't have a mty for 48hrs or we terminate your lease. And this workflow, well don't get me going on that. And just like DFO has been saying about all these trailer hunts. I tell them NO. I don't work for free. And this crap telling me to p/u a mty and take it to a custumer that has nothing to do with my w/a, drop said mty then bobtail to my p/u, for free?? I think not. And these annual recerts are ridiculous and a waste of money. Unless the driver really needs the check ride. Even the ICA's think they are dispatchers and can order you around. I called their bluff and won. We are not company drivers!!And Schneider must be the only Large Motor Carrier that has mostly all spring ride trailers. That's why they can't get any high paying loads or really high value loads. Well, it's back to Landstar for me. A true owner/operator company. There are just too many changes on the way that is not good for the "Schneider" Owner-Operator. One thing to think about, as big as Schneider is as far as the number of trucks total they have, why do Schneiders O/O's only get $.08 fuel discount at PFJ, when smaller Carriers are getting $.20-$.30.??? Answer: they get the same discount but only give $.08 to the O/O. HMMM. Hello Landstar!!!

 

Nope, down here off 10 at the Petro peelot Casa Grande. btw that is good mpg. I usually average about 7.5. pulling some heaver loads lately so that has dropped to about 7.. I will be running I 10 back to cali then back to Phoenix.

 

Cool let us know how it is at Landstar. Just for the record tho my experience and hearing from other drivers etc.. your just going to another company with another basket of BS to contend with. In long run hurting yourself by jumping ship terminating a lease (I assume) and having a record of jumping from job to job. Yes some things suck here, but the way I see it we got a pretty good deal compared to a lot of drivers out there. Opportunity is here to make decent money and be working toward paying off your truck and owning it.

 

amen on the 40k.....sooooooo...here's my solution.....if ya gotta take a heavy one, try to take the one that has the friendliest route. I-75 south of ATL is good......I-10 between FL and TX rules.......and I-95 up the coast has always been good to me. I'm under a 44k load right now running from ATL to FL and still managed to get 7.5 mpg. If I was running the hills, it'd be down to about 6.

DFO........nah man.....look at a map.....there is no good way to get from the Carolina's to Albany....now you can feel my pain!!! LOL