Schneider intermodal st. louis local (thumbs down)

The lies will begin with the recruiter and follow through with management. There's a very high turnover for management and there's horrible dispatching that makes no sense. The management team is offsite, and soon will be on site, however our leader has never been in a semi truck in her life, and she's in charge of inspecting the trucks (permits, fresh damage, and cleanliness). Management is constantly trying to figure out ways to get people to work for free (favors), and the pay just isn't there.

I can work 70 hours and make 1100 dollars or work 50 hours a week and make 1100 dollars. If you choose the shorter schedule you get shorter runs, and the longer schedule you get longer runs. If you have no set stop time stop time in the system, they will work you 14 hours a day, every day. I was constantly getting back to the yard with less than 45 minutes left.

We only make 16 cpm, 32 dollars a load (base) it maxes out at 38, and a 6 dollar (performance pay) that you can easily lose that's added to each load. You can lose points on your performance pay by following too closely, having your foot on the pedal (not using cruise), not showing up to work on time more than twice per quarter, not having the correct days worked (you have to work one extra day per month, to get the extra dollar)

Oh and the vacation days are a doozy, you get 5 days after one year, if you start in the middle of the calendar year, and a full calendar year has not passed before you take your vacation, you will lose out on 50% of the money. They didn't tell people till after the fact.

It says on recruiting websites that you have the ability to make 80k, however the guy that's been at the company for 25 years, working 6 days a week every week, with maxed out pay (meaning he's getting 38 bucks a load) has only gotten 76k one year. Most are averaging between 57k and 61k.

They also tell people that we have our own equipment, while this is true, if for some reason they're lacking chassis, we use rail pool chassis. We constantly chase empties, the company has no idea where they're at, and you don't get paid for trailer searches no matter how long they take. Detention is only 15 dollars an hour after 2 hrs.

If you make upper management angry they'll try and get you fired, like saying they "found" an IBC on one of your trailers just to give you a write up.

We lack chassis, and containers, and when there are neither we struggle to make customers happy. They constantly send me for loads that aren't ready, or on the train, or aren't even at the rail yard all together. Dispatching is disgraceful, they'll constantly have you pick up empties from a specific customer and take those to the yard, then the following day have you take those same empties back to the same customer, and they don't see the error.

 

True that.

 

They still pay for safety courses but now it's 5 dollars every month, because they changed it from quarterly to monthly. If you don't do the video training you'll come to work and be put "out of service" and wont be able to get loads till the training is completed.