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

I need to start talking to them to see if I would even come close to meeting their requirements. I would love to get a new truck, but we're talking well over 100k.

 

Well said, no way no how will I be in debt to them.

Take your time looking over their inventory and choose wisely. They sent me ECM downloads and the first truck I had selected I told them to keep. The issues I saw on the ECM were enough of a concern for me to walk away. Thankfully they still had another truck I was interested in and the ECM download for that truck came back with what I expected to see and what I considered an acceptable level of risk.

Learn everything you can about the truck and how things work so you can work on it yourself. When it comes to truck specs, know what you are looking for before you even call them and let them know right from the start what you're looking for. Don't just settle for something they have because you get the bug to be an IC.

 

So no 2004 Century's with 900000 miles?

 

Where is their inventory? I see DFO has a bluish truck and I see other ICs with different makes of trucks than on schneidertrucks.com. Is there another website to look at their trucks? All they have on that website is their old trucks.

 

No they do not list their used IC equipment online. You have to call and get a SFI rep to send you a list of what they have. Since their inventory is constantly changing it would be near impossible to keep something online up to date.

 

Forgot to mention since your a company driver you have to speak to the Company to IC transfer recruiter first. Glenn Remington is his name. He will look at your logs and then send an email to your manager to find out about your service history and safety issues. Once he approves you, you have to do the SFI app, once that's done you actually get to talk to a rep and they will send you the inventory.

 

I knew they would try to push a new Cascadia on me, but I knew what specs I was looking for when my rep contacted me. I told her at the outset; this is what I am looking for, now what do you have that meets my expectations. Once I set the conversation in that manner, she never once said Hey I've got a brand new freightliner.

Again do some research and know what you want before you even start. It will make things a whole lot less stressful.

 

505 hp CAT with an APU and at least 1500 watt converter with 8 inch stacks and a 10 speed and 24 inch spinning rims?