My time with Schneider

If anything, few drivers I talk to already predicted that after Don Schneider's passing, it's going to turn into the next JB hunt and start going downhill.

 

Don hadn't been involved in the day-to-day ops in some time. He retired in 2002, I believe due to his illness.

All the SNI veterans I had spoken to who were with SNI during Don's tenure spoke of a very different company back then. Too common with companies that lose the original owner....

 

True... But I guess since he was still around no major changes too place... Guess we'll see what happenes this and next year that will make the news.

 

Don wasn't the original owner, his daddy was the founder of the company. Don took the reins from him

I drove for Schneider when Don was in charge. Unlike most of the larger Big truck truckin' companies, Schneider was/is entirely family owned and operated, with no investors to answer to.
Schneider was my first choice as the company I wanted to begin my career with and the only company I applied with because I was hired, --- even though the sign in the window read "Not Hiring Drivers At This Time".

From what I've been readin' here, Schneider's operation seems to have changed from the (almost) five years that I spent with the company. I can honestly say that my good experiences far outweighed the not so good, and the not so good experiences became some of my best Star Spangled Road Stories. Of all the gigs I've been involved with, I have two that I enjoyed the most. One of them was a Driver Trainer for Schneider, --- as one of only a few un-married Driver Trainers, I was asked if I minded having women trainees about 75 --> 80% of the time. All I ask for is a good attitude and a desire to learn. How that's packaged didn't concern me.

However, this thread is intended to be for reporting BAD Big truck truckin' companies. So, --- IMO, Schneider is BAD for treatin' me so well.

By the tone set in previous posts, I assume Don Schneider has passed away.
Is my assumption correct?

 

Yes on Friday age 76 after a long battle with alzheimers.

 

ThanX for the update, Sammycat.
Seventy-six is too young to have had a "long" battle with Alzheimer's.
My condolences to the Schneider family.
I know all too well how Alzheimer's affects the caregivers and family members, which are too often one-in-the-same.
Heartbreaking, to say the least.

R.I.P Don Schneider.​

 

Question is for how long...


First company I worked for and loved it... until few months ago. More and more changes, lots of people quitting. Not the same company it was few years ago, even in 2010 when I started...

 

Donald J. "Don" Schneider, a trucking industry visionary and chairman emeritus and former president and CEO of truckload giant Schneider National, died Friday Jan. 13 2012 in De Pere, Wis., following a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Schneider was 76

 

everything changes.

no company is the same as it was 5 years ago, if they are, then they probably aren't in business anymore.

companies have to change with the times, I have been with SNI almost a year, and have seen lots of changes, nothing so bad to want to quit tho.