Some questions about Schneider

They were strict about wearing work boots at the terminals.

One of the main things that would prevent me from going back is they don't let you use split sleeper berth. That was in 2013. I don't know if that's changed since then.

 

Wear shoes, for ####'s sake. If there's an accident and you need to jump out of the truck to save somebody''s life, you don't want to have to stop to put shoes on first. Or if they ask you to pull around back of the scalehouse so you can enjoy your first inspection, you're going to look awfully silly as you fumble around trying to put shoes on before they open your door. And you have even less time to do that if you get pulled over, which can happen for any reason, or no reason at all.

That being said, there's two types of shoes - official shoes, and driving shoes. Official shoes for corporate properties and driving shoes for in between. Best practice is to put on your official shoes before you arrive. Driving shoes should still have slip resistant soles and a vague appearance of masculinity.

 

Vests were required on the terminal yards.
Or around equipment, or customers.

How will they know?
Snitches.

 

Ok so hometime
You can work out hometime with them as far as getting routed to a certain terminal but Schneider doesn’t do personal conveyance. Meaning no bobtailing to the grocery store and around town and thing of that nature. As it would go against your 70. Also they’re really focused on being efficient with their fuel usage. So you can get routed there but don’t expect to be cruising in the semi all week.
As far as night time driving they give you a pickup and delivery time and tell you to make it happen. They make sure you know how to trip plan but for the most part it’s just get it done and give us a Nat(next available time)< what you expect you 14/11/70 to look like when done with that assignment and what time. You can push your nat out if don’t want another assignment immediately however when I left they were implementing a new system that put your nat at what it wanted it to be.
Schneider rules only really apply at terminals and customers

 

What are ya planning on doing, driving with your feet? For the love of all that’s holy man, wear shoes!

 

No, no specific rules against driving at night.

Schneider specifies for shoes/boots to be both slip-resistant and oil-resistant. This requirement has "saved my bacon" both on and off the job numerous times.

The "training engineers" there are VERY good and VERY professional. However, unless things have changed since I was there--be advised: your time with a trainer out on the road is VERY SHORT compared to that with other "starter" companies (I was with my trainer for less than a week!). Most other "starter" companies are much more generous with trainer time. It's up to you to decide if you are comfortable with that.

--Lual

 

JC1971: split sleeper still not allowed. Only 10 hr break.