ArmyVetTrucker - Reviews

  • Overall
  • Home Time
  • Equipment and Maintenance
  • Dispatchers and Managers
Pros
You have a job. Not all of their trucks are orange.
Cons
LOW LOW PAY Old trailers Beat down trucks Almost all equipment is a safety hazard Forget about home time. No support from management. 61mph max, is embarassing. 61mph max speed overall.

Schneider can't get their head out of their own ###. Recruiters and orientation offer one thing. The reality is, you had better be ready to excercise business decisions for yourself and pray you got it right. All van trailers are 2001 models and older. Some are LITERALLY falling apart! The trucks have been destroyed by rookies, so most need a clutch and steer hard left or hard right. Suspension? What suspension? Their rigs will break your back and your teeth! Good luck making over 1500 miles a week. And thats if your DM actually LIKES you! Your truck and outdated quallcom will likely spend 25% of your time in the shop. Managers DO NOT care about safety, OR pay, OR hometime. Don't even consider them. Their freight is even slow now as big customers realize, that they JUST CAN'T get it right.

Currently Employed at Company: No
  • Overall
  • Home Time
  • Equipment and Maintenance
  • Dispatchers and Managers
Pros
You have a job. Free food at orientation (and $30 pay for a week)
Cons
CEO claims he cares and doesn't FORGET home time Days, often in a row, spent making no money. 96% live load/unload Unsafe equipment Can't reach dispatch or breakdown Everything done on the cheap. Tiny, tiny, paycheck.

Drove for Navajo. They make big promises and don't deliver. At orientation, the CEO (Don Digby Jr.) Walks in and asserts an open door policy. Ha! LMAO! Try to talk to him, and you will be nearly forced out, and not reach him. Also, they pay the lowest they can get away with. And try to reach dispatch after they assign you a load that will kill your paycheck AND your home time, and nobody answers. They pay something like $30 for orientation and put you up in Denver's cheapest "hotel". Pot is legal in Denver, and you smell like it due to the cheap accomodations. The driving test goes through the narrowest industrial setting they can find, and many fail. I didn't fail. Once on the road for them they mever answer your calls, and NOBODY cares that you do 96% live LOAD and UNLOAD. Half of your week is easily spent on load/unload time. Couple that with low pay, and it's no wonder they have huge turnover. Also, most trucks or trailers have really old and damaged tires, wiring, lights, rusty OLD wheels...etc, and no prepass. So expect State Troopers to get you at every state line. Points on the license. Just because they are cheap. Call in 2 bad tires in a trailer (tread seperating and bald) and the company will make you sit a while day or two and that's only AFTER breakdown will answer. They mostly do not answer the phones. Cheap company penching pennies on safety and on live loads/unloads. As a driver you pay all tolls and stop at all ooen weigh stations. Leave these cheap, unorganized crooks alone!! In fact, RUN from Navajo!

Currently Employed at Company: Yes