Waiting for my truck!

yeah..doesn't make a ton of sense.....but I bet he was kinda wound up a bit from the events, so maybe he described the events wrong....

Might be true...I thought Schneider, as a privately held company was a bit more honest about just firing folks....

Heck what sticks out in my mind from talking to their recruiter was him saying "We want you to come here to work hard and long, and if you grind gears, or are hard on your equipment....I know some other company's you can work for...if you curb trailers, etc...I know a few places you can work for...we want people who can do the job, and do it the right way....."
He was very honest about saying he was not just hiring warm bodies, but profesionals that wanted to do things right, and work hard...folks that they thought had a chance of succeeding. He strongly implied that if you did not have the attitude of a pro, and handled yourself as such (and dressing as such in work-boots, no flip-flops or other leisure attire when around the customer) , there was no place for such a person at Schneider....
It was kinda refreshing to hear a company talking about quality in hiring drivers in a no-nonsense way....
He was pretty honest about saying unless you are a good driver to start...you will not finish the compressed training and simulator...and that he had no desire to waste company time or money on folks who were not yet ready.
It seems as if they set their goals in driver development pretty high, train hard for a very short period of time, turn people loose on their own pretty fast....very different from other starter company's....
Does this seem to be a fair interpretation of what they are like?

 

Ya, I can see that happening.

 

Bill,If I read this right, you had 14 hours left on your 70, and you needed a reset? You can tell me to shove it where the sun don't go, it's none of my business, just trying to understand and help ya out.
This is what I understand. You sat for almost 4 days, that would have given you a reset. You then drove 6 hours and did a PTI. post PTI, and unloaded. There's 6.75 hours. That would leave you with 63.25 hours, then you did another reset? Was that by your request, or because there was no freight. I don't have your logs in front of me, but it doesn't make sense you would want to reset again that soon.
The new EOBR with SNI sorta screwed me up initially, but I still kept a paper log, and always will even with EOBR.
Were you dealing with the weekend/back shift crew? Was your DBL supportive? He should have been, or be put on the street. Any time I had load or HOS concerns, it was because I wasn't dealing with my regular guys, and I can say, they always made it right with me in some form or fashion.

 

Bill,If I read this right, you had 14 hours left on your 70, and you needed a reset? You can tell me to shove it where the sun don't go, it's none of my business, just trying to understand and help ya out.
This is what I understand. You sat for almost 4 days, that would have given you a reset. You then drove 6 hours and did a PTI. post PTI, and unloaded. There's 6.75 hours. That would leave you with 63.25 hours, then you did another reset? Was that by your request, or because there was no freight. I don't have your logs in front of me, but it doesn't make sense you would want to reset again that soon.
The new EOBR with SNI sorta screwed me up initially, but I still kept a paper log, and always will even with EOBR.
Were you dealing with the weekend/back shift crew? Was your DBL supportive? He should have been, or be put on the street. Any time I had load or HOS concerns, it was usually because I wasn't dealing with my regular guys, and I can say, they always made it right with me in some form or fashion.