Attention all company drivers!!!

Why would they even consider changing their ways when
their ways are producing a profit? That's what businesses are in business to do, and to do that necessitates employees to git-er-done. Employees are just an inconvenience to contend with for many companies. Any concerns a shabby company may have rarely include drivers contentment and/or satisfaction. Driver retention? Why worry?
There are plenty more warm, desperate, disposable, bodies out there seeking employment to worry about keeping any employees they have happy. Besides, the longer an employee/driver stays with a company, the more raises in pay they receive, which is of concern to the company bean-counters, who question why an employee who is still doing the same job, like driving, being paid more as time passes?
Time = experience and experience tends to make a job easier for an employee.
Easy jobs traditionally pay less.
Attract employees with a high starting wage because it is harder at first, as experience is learned.
Less work =Less pay is a no-brainer.

Paying low, entry level, newBee wages makes better business sense and the bottom line seems to support that mind-set. Lower wages = higher profits for the company. With higher profits comes business expansion --- and a need for more employees/drivers to be hired, reducing the unemployment problem and will be seen as a sign by the gubmint and be declared an indicator that the recession is over, never taking into consideration that low paid employees have little disposable income to spend on frills. Just the necessities, which doesn't do much of anything to stimulate the economy. That will be reported later when they finally realize they made a wrong prediction, and blame the workers/employees for their error because they're hording their money instead of recirculating said money back into a depressed economy.

Besides, Rule #1 is the company comes first. After all, without the company, there'd be no jobs. Where's the employee gratitude? When will all the whining employees/drivers stop and realize that they are the problem? Did it ever occur to them that they're overpaid, and that causes the price of goods to rise to a level that they can no longer afford to consume?

Employees/Drivers would do well to strike. Walk off the job with little, if any, notice. Don't call in sick either.
Keep 'em guessing, ....... as their customers are in a panic, --- holding on line 2
and 3
and 4
they're all lit up.

Then, .................. deploy picket lines and enlist a few thugs in black leather coats to do whatever it is that they do.
We don't ask,
They don't tell.

Tell y'all's employer,
No ---- demand that y'all's wages be retroactively
reduced.
And modify the contract section concerning Automatic Raises and/or Bonuses, and initial "Decline to participate"

When employers comply, y'all can go back to work
or sleep,
or whatever y'all were doin',
or distracted by.

Try that for a couple of years, --- see if that helps the condition our condition is in, any, if at all.

I'm a WhaT?
Oh yeah?.......... Well, .............
Have y'all heard any better proposals comin' outta Washington?

And that's another thing,........
What do we know about that Washington fella?:smt102
Father of our country, ....... right?
How old is that dude?:smt102
It's amazing he can still hold his water, let alone propose
anything.

Uh-Oh!
I think I'm about to digress,......................
I btr go B4Ido.
C U.

 

I guess it's a good thing that I'm happy with WSE huh !!???

 

Thank you!

 

Thank who?
And welcome to the forums.

 

I certainly don't have to worry because I can't find a job. Wish I had a company to complain about. Everyone wants experience so hows a future trucker suppose to get experience with a decent company. I'm really trying to stay away from those big screw company's but time is running out for me and I might have to bend over and sign my life away.

 

I hope Schneider does read this. I have on my DAC that I violated company policy. What it comes down to is a $255.37 paycheck Im not cashing for 7 days worth of "staging" for other drivers yet they expect me to be out 14 days at a crack and they have the nerve to constantly place ads in the newspaper looking for drivers? Schneider you are as pathetic as a company can get, furthermore I hope a driver rear ends a dispatcher after you people call and badger drivers on their personal cell phone waking them up when you know they are on their 10 hr. break..

 

You aren't worried about finding employment?

Wishing is a start.

I've heard that complaint since I was a kid, and I've been around awhile. I'm thinkin' it's been that way forever. Were you unaware that that's the way it is?

The alternative is to sign on with a truckin' company with a less than stellar reputation for satisfying their drivers, and be at their mercy for a year or so. At the end of that time you'll have that experience to go elsewhere, if y'all aren't burned out on Big truck truckin' by then.

Actually, you don't HAVE to bend over and/or sign your life away. That would be a decision, and I assume you make those decisions.

You indicate that you're a student, but I don't know if you're presently enrolled or attending classes, --- either way I wonder how much research you've done on the truckin' industry. You seem to be in a hurry to catch slow movin' trucks. At best, this is about the worst time to attempt to enter the truckin' industry. Drivers who've been at it for 30 years have said they've never seen it this bad before. Seasoned and well experienced Big truck truckers here usually advise wannaBees to wait awhile for a better chance for success. It is NOT pretty out there now-a-daze.

Did ANYbody tell you that?

Considering that the less than desirable companies make money from their training (?) program(s), if y'all are attending an independent school, I'm thinkin' the trainin' company's interest in y'all wouldn't be all that great. All they have to do is graduate enough wannaBees who now owe the company for their training (?). They'll get the first crack at an empty seat.

I wish you luck, but I don't think it's gonna be an easy drive.

WhO knows though? If y'all never land a truckin' gig ----
Maybe someday 30 years from now, you'll be kickin' back, thinkin' how lucky it was that you didn't get hired by any truckin' companies.

Schneider?
Read these threads?
Are you kiddin'?
Of course they do.
Rumor has it they have a staff of five who monitor TTR 24/7/365. :smt024
And that they report directly to the top in their long, black leather coats and jack-boots polished to a mirror shine. It's considered an elite position that only those loyal to the Schneider Clan are considered worthy of.
With millions of readers world-wide, and being translated in 13 languages, who DOESN'T read these threads?

WoaH!
That don't sound good.
Did you violate company policy?

So, is that a yes?

After reading comments like that, I think it's more clear why you're a former employee of Schneider.

Figuring as how Schneider is considered one of the better large truckin' companies that treats their drivers comparatively better than average, and they kicked you to the curb with a dinged DAC for Violation of Company Policy, ..................makes me wonder.
IF you're hired by another truckin' company with a record like that, will that company turn out to be even more "pathetic than a company can get"?

Let us know when you find out?
We like to be well informed and appreciate all reports.

 

Electric shock you sound like a shnider dispatcher. If you dont have facts which is obvious keep your mouth shut you idiot!! I was fired because I drove home after 2 days of staging truck. THats $255.37 for 7 days of work. Shnider a good company? tell that to all who lost and continue losing jobs. The See how many drivers are going to tolerate $255.37 after 11 yrs,exp. And this pathetic trash company continues on a daily basis to place adds looking for drivers. Thats a 97% turnover rate and (FACT) Another FACT a letter was sent to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Because this wonderful company calls drivers on cell phones and wakes them up while on their 10 break.

 

Well, it's obvious that you either don't read rules or you're not inclined to follow rules, --- one or the other. Neither acceptable.

Hmmmmmm.....
And here I thought you were canned for violating company policy. Isn't that what you told us in your first post?

Will you listen?

How many of those 11 years were with Schneider?

.You claim that to be fact, but in fact, you've provided no proof to back up your claim(s). So, until you provide proof, I'll file it under Probable Bovine Excrement.

Now, would you like some cheese to go with your
whine? :smt089:smt088:smt090

 

Electric shock, No proof, Im not sure what proof your looking 4 when drivers and recruiters themselves said after a class of 35 drivers 1 year later 2 drivers are with the company. Thats just the last class. Now I said I was fired. After several weeks of payroll 2-300.00 per week. and 2 be out for 14 days at a time 2 days prior to going home i was "staging" that means getting the trailor loaded and taking it to a drop yard in some cases the paid miles were 02 from where the trailor was loaded. Does it matter where I drove? When my driving time is not cut and any driver will tell you schneider assigns loads that are impossible to make on time, which goes aginst the grain of a (mac18) obviously they simply do not pay attention to the information being sent, theres also a good chance some young arrogant college punk whos never been in a truck before is also assingning loads. In addition to that I do make mulitipal deliveries into chicago, Brooklyn and p/u north in the Bronx. I never had an accident the last ticket was o5 because i went past a roadside scale that had a temporary red flag saying they were open. I usually look for a "lighted sign" or green sign, but a construction flag diamond shape they can stick that in their ear. I was also empty at the time. So thsats my experience for 11 years. Want to start foaming at the mouth again? ya know this is interesting, a co. where I applied the girl even said if I was still employed there I would not give Schneider any type of warning Id just leave, they got a copy of my Dac, I know that because it shows on the companies that requested it. Im posting all this to expose what a piece of #### company schnieder really is. Botton line if I was making $500.00 a week after taxes , whats the problem? That should easily be met with my experience and record. If you cant aknowledge that the fact is your a fake!! Now for your 4000 posts its quite obvious your mentality is less than zero. Good company huh? what do you call it when dispatch calls drivers on their personal cell phones waking them up when they know they are sleeping? I truelly hope and pray dispatchers end up getting slammed by a driver they woke up out of sleep and could not get back to sleep. Thats exactly what they deserve.