I obtained my CDL on August 15th of this year. I live in North Central, PA where the gas industry is booming and for the past month I have been trying to get a job with one of the companies with no results. Most of the companies require 1-2 years experience, something I obviously don't have. After reading through some of the threads I am looking at Schneider (seem to have NE regional runs and are hiring in my area) and a company an hour and a half away from me called Milton Transportation. Not sure on the home time for Milton but the 5-5.5 days/2 days or 6 days/3 days sound pretty good with Schneider. My question is how well does Schneider follow-through on those schedules? I understand that there will be times when a load needs to be delivered and you cannot make it home or there isn't a load near "home", but about how many weekends do the drivers get? I read on here that drivers for Maverick average about 48 weekends off a year, is Schneider close to that number? Thanks for any input.
Follow-Through on Home Time?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by metaluzc, Sep 17, 2011.
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Its mostly a recruiting ploy. Living in PA though you should have no shortage of companies to choose from.
Home time seems to really be a major concern for you. I highly recommend a different career choice. 4-6 weeks is your average time out across the board. Not to mention if you are doing less than that you aren't going to make very good money.
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I am otr with SNI but they always get me home withing 24hrs of my requested home time baring some unforseen event like a breakdown or weather.
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check with the smaller companys first --then work your way up-----it all depends on the job--and the company--you can still make decent money and be home every weekend---the expirience thing might hinder you tho---lots of the small good companys may want a few years of exp
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I know it's a lame excuse, but I just want home Sundays for football season right now. I have no problem working say Monday through Saturday and being able to watch football on Sunday and then be back at it early Monday morning depending on how far I need to go for a load. Call it naive, but I was hoping that for a dedicated or even NE regional run, there wouldn't be a need for weeks out at a time. I'm single with no kids so that's not the issue, I just love the NFL and would like to watch games rather than read about it online or listen to the radio.
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Whatever you do, don't mention that reason to anyone even remotely close to any company.
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haha I wasn't going to.
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