Ok, just as well, boubon! Need a little Coke with mine, though. So, are you really painting landscapes? Maybe you just bug the wife all day? I bet your toenails were never so clean and well trimmed. I've got a week or two (or more) coming up myself. :)

You know Mike, there are only about 50 of us in the mileage program. So far, it seems like they've been able to scrape off all the loads we need. I've gotten paid for sitting for three days a could of times (I loovvveeee surfing the internet on layover), but they've kept me moving for the most part. The percentage guys, they can tell you their story themselves...

We'll see about next year, huh? Just today, Chrysler shutting down for a month...I've been expecting a whole lot of fall out to actually begin in 2009 (we found out after a year that we were in a recession all of 2008!?- who buried those numbers!?!) Doesn't sound like QC has anything for me until next year, either. We've just got to get ready. Make sure you've got your plan B, C and D, I guess.

Not yet, but I'm planing to! Somewhere warm.... Enjoy it, while you are still ahead!

You don't think the are loading the ORANGE trucks ahead of the lease operators, do you?

i dont know about the lease operators, im an OWNER operator,,,,,,(unless your talking about drivers leased to SNI) :-)

i dont know what there deal is?

Think of Donnie Schneider as a big owner operator.Whose trucks is he going to load first?

You are a lease operator, you are leased to Schneider. Getting home every weekend can be hard to do no matter where you work, you end up turning down good work to be able to go the direction you need. These are tough times, you have to do whatever it takes to make it.

ok i see what u are saying....when u said lease i thought u were talking about the ones who lease trucks from schneider...... thats what i would call a lease operator...

there was a Schneider O/O at our Wal-Mart DC Terminal the other day in the Drivers Lounge.. and he clearly said he is not happy with their way of business.. His Quote "I've been here two weeks, and i put in my two weeks notice in last week"

Thats the Pumpkin for you!!!

An owner operator isn't required to give a notice, but it might help to get their attention. I am surprised that any owner operator would leave a carrier after only 2 weeks.

Exactly my thoughts! Not enough time to figure out the system....