FYI: Schneider National

Thirty-three cents per mile to drive tanker is blatant exploitation. So is 28 cents per mile for ANYTHING. No driver should settle for anything paying in the twenty-some-cent range. My opinion of Schneider just plummeted even further. I didn't have any real negative feelings toward the company until recently after witnessing firsthand what it is doing in the oil fields and fracking areas (lowering the pay scale and sending unqualified drivers) but after learning what the company is paying my opinion of Schneider now places the company on the level of the other lousy, entry-level bottom-feeders. Avoid Schneider unless you can't get hired on anywhere except at large, bottom-feeders.

 

So GA_Rookie, did you choose Schneider?

 

Since it is a given that newbies coming straight outta school have to sign on with someone (to get that experience) and that only the big, well-known companies will hire newbies, so just which of the big, well-known companies are less evil than the others?

It seems there are no good choices and that it's a matter of just choosing the least evil of a lot of bad choices. If not Schneider, then whom? It's all gonna be crappy pay no matter what, right?

 

Schneider tanker looks pretty good. .41cpm in 12 months. Probably many other pays also such as unloading, etc.

 

Typical mentality of a lazy newbie>no one else will hire/train a new driver so I'm stuck/obligated to sell my sould to a t/l mega-bottom feeder.

Sad that you feel that way,

 

It's not just the big, well-known companies who hire newbies. Smaller companies will hire newbies, you just have to put in in the legwork to find them. And no, it's not all crappy pay. I've said this repeatedly in this forum ... some newbies will come right out of school and land on the sweet spot. Will it be the majority? No. Why? Because they settle. It all comes down to ... how bad do you want something? Keep digging, knock on doors IN PERSON, talk to drivers and seek out the smaller companies. I snagged my first job by volunteering to work my first few weeks totally for FREE just to prove myself. It wasn't an entry-level paying job, didn't suck and wasn't with a mega-carrier. Stepped right into a tanker position, worked it a few months and rolled on to a more lucrative position. The caveat? Make sure your ducks are in order. Clean driver license, clean (no record) criminal record and have something to sell yourself with. Have your TWIC and passport AHEAD of time, along with your endorsements even if you don't plan on using them. I focused on these facts and included a copy of my background and license history when applying. Also conveyed to prospective employers that I'm in excellent physical health, a non-smoker, non-drinker and clean cut. Just these simple things place a driver well above the majority of applicants. When they see you going above and beyond, you will be amazed the companies that will open their doors for you and at least give you an interview. Once you secure that interview, it's up to you to sell yourself which is another topic completely.

Schneider company drivers are getting the leftovers as Schneider is piling the majority of their miles to the owner operators first, company drivers last. Forty-one cents per mile with only 2000 miles per week ain't what I consider pretty good. I may be wrong but I'm gonna hazard an educated guess here and say at this point in this trucking climate one would be hard pressed to find a Schneider tanker COMPANY driver with less than many years experience getting (AVERAGING) more than 2200 miles per week IF that.

 

Millis Transfer is starting at .32 cpm and if you obtain 2000-2499 you get an extra .03 cents, 2500-2999 extra .4 cents and over 3000 an extra .05 cents. From what I heard there are quite a few avg. over 3000 miles.