Schneider Transportation

And that's all well & good -- IF that other mega will in fact hire you.

In my case -- Schneider was the only big dog at that time willing to give me a chance.

Good experience is good experience.

-- L

 

OP, WHAT DISABILITY ARE YOU AFFLICKED WITH?

 

Is that right?

 

Sure. Good experience is good experience.

Schneider (at least in 2003 when I trained there) taught their drivers well. Has that changed? Probably. The en####ification of EVERYTHING has only increased in speed and intensity over the last five years, so it wouldn't terribly surprise me if Schneider wasn't just giving guys keys and wishing them luck.

 

That how they did me 12 or 13 years ago........and good luck finding it

 

I love the term that you used. I'm going to steal it. So sue me.

 

I don’t like talking on the phone when Im not driving. I have no use for the stupid headset. Schneider is like Office Space TPS report. Do something a little wrong and you gotta talk to 4 different people about it.
They don’t pay for layover. You have to ask for it, they say they will put it in, then they don’t. Left me sitting at a Salt Lake Love’s for 6 days and didn’t pay me for a lick of it. My teammate quit and they couldn’t find a load.
My first teammate was an African guy. A nice guy and a good person but he didn’t understand complicated intersections, couldn’t read directions, and didn’t understand half the road signs. No idea how he got a CDL let alone made it through the extensive training. It was down right dangerous. The second was a raving mad lunatic that got to skip the training because of “experience.” She up and quit, abandoned the truck.
They wanted to make me apply for a different job after I said no more teammates. There was no OTR solo no-touch to apply for. I conceded that maybe I couldn’t get everything I wanted and applied for Home Depot account that was home more often than I wanted to be and had me unloading freight. The pay was also super low. All the pay at Schneider is super low. They never called. DBL told me to apply a second time. No Thanks!
I applied somewhere else and got a call back in just a few hours. I lined up another job and quit. Everything about Schneider sucks.
You are better off. It sucks to have an involuntary termination on the report. They put “not provided” on my report in the voluntary/involuntary spot. Hopefully they did that for yours.
The headsets are dumb in my opinion, but firing someone for it is even dumber. 90% of truck drivers have those stupid headsets. Hopefully the next company will give you an opportunity to explain if the report says involuntary. That’s a rather trivial thing, probably easy for them to overlook.

 

in PA you must speak English to get your CDL, enough already. If someone is too stupid and dumb and cannot learn the language here, then they need to gtfoasap !

 

@Opus
@Judge
@gentleroger
@88 Alpha

Care to comment on the above post?

-- L

 

I didn’t have any trouble at schneider but i was on tanker side.
My dbl got promoted, then had some idiot kid, we couldn’t get along.
Other dbl paid for detention(never had layover)

New guy would get a load, then a 34-48 hour break then load and repeat break.
I called up and he told me wasn’t his job to get you loads.
So i told him to give me dispatch number since their new at that time bulk dispatch on qualcomm wasn’t getting through, he refused, i quit.

Driving back from st. louis to West memphis terminal, he actually called and asked if i was quitting because i didn’t get loads, told him I’d been out 2.5 months, got 20 loads I’d given him a chance.
Was averaging 2/week and some of them were couple hundred miles.

I could sustain it, most can’t.
Added
A good DBL is key.
They bad one still works there, Terry, whom still calls wanting to know if i’ll comeback there.