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Originally Posted by no_worries
SHC...I know lots of guys were raving about SNI's choice board the first year or two. I've talked to a lot of drivers over the last year that were complaining that SNI started pulling the good freight off the board. Maybe as things turn around the story will be different. They didn't have choice when I was there.
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Yeah, I started on the "pilot" program and did it for 3 years. I was doing just fine w/o any problems, and the loads are still there. It just takes about 6 mos to figure out where the good runs are and what lanes to take. Kind of like tracer found out with LS, SNI does the same thing and pays $2.25 mile to ND and then your stuck deadheading back 500 miles to another load. I did know of a great lane that ran GM auto parts. I would book it a week in advance and here was the run:
Bolingbrook, IL to Nashville, TN ($1.29 mile) Spring Hill, TN to Reno, NV ($2.25 mile) then here is where it got tricky as there wasn't much in the Reno area, but I knew of a load they did from Salt Lake City, UT to Denver, CO that paid $6.25 mile and ran every Sunday and you had to go thru Wyoming as it was potato chips and with the routing points it was about $2,500 for 500 miles (to the truck) so i'd grab that and then DH back to iowa City and grab a PG load back to Chicago. I'd be out a little over a week and bring home $5,500. I would do this once a month, but this too got very boring and I wouln't run it in the winter as I didn't like WY and I didn't have chains. Also, all the loads never weighed over 20k lbs so it was GREAT on my MPG!!!
I know a lot of guys who live in OK, FL, GA, AZ, NM and so on that were running the choice program and didn't make squat because of where they lived. IN/IL/OH/WI is where the money is at with SNI, and I did extreemely well. And if I ever lose my dedicated gig now, I will be going back