Intermodal Trucking?

driver628 · Mar 29, 2007

Anybody know anything about this? Schneider claims "you can be home every night". From what I've seen its moving containers from rail yards. How do you get paid if your home every night, hourly? I know its not expediting, another driver at a cons was talking about it. I thought I'd see if anyone has had experience with this in the past.

fastman_1 · Mar 29, 2007

I did this back in the early 80's you go to the rail yards hook your container snd deliver to customer,and vicea versa I was home 2 to 3 nights a week was paid 62% I was based in Cleveland Ohio but Hardly ever went to the Rail Yards there,Give Triple Crown a Call they are the big Player in this Game. Hope this helped.

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Refer Hauler · Mar 29, 2007

EGL did or maybe still does this in select area's for select customers.
You think some shipper's are rude and keep you waiting, try a rail yard. They make lumpers look respectful.
I refused to do it largely based on the condition of the chassis.

Moot · Mar 29, 2007

I also did some intermodal work in the early 1980's. I worked for a small trucking company that dabbled in intermodal. We used chassis from a pool. Bakes were out of adjustment if they were working at all, flat tires etc. The worst was the piggyback trailers. These pigs would bounce around the southern U.S. and end up in Minnesota where it was -20 degrees. All that nice warm moist air in the lines and tanks turned to ice.

If I ever did intermodal work again I would go with a company that owned its own chassis and maintained them. I think Schneider has its own. Plus you would pull their pigs. If you want to be home most nights you need to live close to a city that has an intermodal port.

Jack_Berry · Mar 29, 2007

I worked for a steamship line many years back and freight forwarders and we had truckers who hauled containers to/from rail yards. some had their trucks with company logo or leased to on the side others were in company tractors. payment was by the run. just keep your eyes peeled for container haulers and see who is doing it and give'm a call. my ss line had 20/20 and 40 extendable chassis. if they were bad we got a pool chassis at the depot to use if it was load to the customer then the train. make sure your reefer has fuel in the tank and starts at the depot when you pick it up before you leave with it.

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x06col · Mar 29, 2007

Yep, every nite. Bout, somewhere 2200 to 0400. Tiz still dark then isn't it??

Crazynuff · Mar 30, 2007

Triple Crown has an interesting setup . Their trailer have connections on each end of the trailer that allows a rail dolly to connect the front of one trailer to the rear of the one in front of it . They're the only intermodal hauler I'd consider hauling for except maybe CSX but CSX uses a lot of chassis in questionable condition . FedEx Ground uses O/O's to deliver double pups betwen terminals . I believe they mostly recruit teams though .

arkjarhead · Mar 30, 2007

Fed Ex Ground runs a lot of solos on runs like memphis to dallas and others like that. my cousin is leased on with bridge transport terminal something like that. It's BTT. They have terminals all over the country. He runs out of the memphis terminal. If you live close to one of their terminals you can get home almost everynight. he's usally home every night every other week then the other weeks he runs the road. he likes it. Plus he can fuel up on the yard for a decent price. Last time he told me yard fuel in memphis was 1.25 a gallon. he said different terminals have different prices.