Picking Schneider OTR over DOT Northeas Regional (help)

The stuff they sent me said paid my the mile with other stuff thrown in like detention and layover pay and short haul pay. Also your bonus for fuel and safety and stuff.

 

DA BEARS im a huge one........but back to the topic it all depends what your company lets you have in the truck my life in the truck i have a flat screen mounted playstation microwave stove grill laptop inverter coffee machine. 4.3 cu ft refrigerator and freezer so life for me is good. I reccomend getting a 4inc foam topper from mattress aw feels great to sleep on

 

Heck ya!

I kept my sons old twin mattress so that's what's going in right a way. Ordered a blue parrot blue tooth a basic cobra CB and a mic re-tractor thingy. I already have chargers for all my stuff like phones and Ipad. I'll put my cooler in there so I can carry food and save money and I have a french press I use while hiking I'll take a long to make coffee.

 

nice. To me its all about driver comfort

 

Starting out you will be paid 29 cents per mile. You will get 11 cents as Taxed paid and 16 cents as untaxed per diem pay. The other 2 cents is kept by the company as a "Management" fee. You will have to be on this for at least 90 days. At the 90 days point you will be able to opt out. Once you opt out you will be getting paid your full 29 cents per mile but will be paying taxes on the entire 29 cents. At the end of the year you get $59 for every full day away from home and $44ish for every day you are going to or from home. You will have to download your logs off the Qualcomm site to have as proof of when you were home and when you were away.

Around six months you should get a 4 cent raise to 33 cents per mile.

You get $15 for every 2 hours of detention time at a customer. $65 for a 24 hour layover. $65 for a day of breakdown pay. The company will reimburse all hotel stays that are required because of problems with your tractor.

You will also get paid extra for each additional stop after the first one on multi stop loads. As well as getting paid extra for each additional place after the second stop while searching for an empty trailer.

There is additional pay rates for driver unloading(Almsot never happens OTR). The company will pay for lumpers with a Commcheck so you don't need to.

For loads under 25 miles you get paid for the miles at your normal mileage rate as well as an addition $25. Load from 26-50 miles pay an additional $1 per mile on top of your Mileage rate. Loads from 51-100 miles pay an addition $0.50 per mile. Loads from 101-200 miles paid an additional $0.10 per mile. Finally, loads from 201-300 pay an additional $0.02 per mile.

For days you are pulled off the road into an Office for training or reviews you get paid in half and full day increments. I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head though and I left the book in my truck.

You will also get a quarterly bonus for being under the Idle % they want, keeping it at 60mph and under 70 mph. And not having any driver related service failures or log violations.

All of this is from my own personal experience of how I've been paid over the past 10 months. The starting rates or anything else may have changed along the way.

 

I have driven for Schneider almost 2 years...very little of what was written previously has actually happened...I'm sleeping in my truck AT FREIGHTLINER not a motel and no $65.00 is coming my way AND I am not making any money, not the worst company but what was written above sounds like a recruiter wrote it....just sharing MY experience with Schneider, next year I am coming into some money and buying my own truck and lease with Schneider Choice program.....possibly or Landstar or...???

Dont believe everything you read here.....theirs usually TWO sides to every story.

 

Sounds like you let your DBL rear end you. Whenever you are broken down you get a hotel, you don't have to sleep in your truck at the shop. And you're supposed to get $65/day breakdown for every 24 hour period. You need to speak up and make an issue about it, and maybe you have to complain in order to get it. However, if you bend over they'll stick it to you if you say nothing.

One thing they don't really pay unless you really complain is layover if you're without a load. That you almost always have to complain about. But whenever I've broke down I've gotten breakdown pay without even asking. Getting a hotel is something you need to speak with your DBL about. Perhaps yours is a #######? There are a lot of those at Schneider like any company really.

 

I've never had a problem getting break down pay, or detention, or reimbursed for a hotel..... I've been driving for a year now. Everything that razororange has stated is spot on...