Dry vs Liquid?

For me the unload time was about an hour for liquid, sometimes 45 minutes. The dry bulk, it depends on what the product is, could be 1 hour or 2 hours. Seems like the food additives took longer than the hazmat powders. My ex-neighbor worked for A&R and made avg. $72K per year which is higher than average there. A&R specializes in plastic pellets for injection molding and it isn't hazmat. There's really not much labor to either; hooking up a hose, then putting the hose back in the rack after unloading. The dry bulk, most customers, after unloading, want you to open the top to ensure all the product has been unloaded. Which company is a call you must make; if the pay is close, then look at benefits if benefits are important to you.

Don't you work for Schneider Bulk? Probably told you a lot you already know.

 

Dry doesn't give you the "surge" that you get from liquid.

 

I saw an article in Gary from the head of bulk operations stating that Schneider lost a big customer because drivers were apparently bringing the wrong trailers to the customer. Was it Exxon or something? Looked like a refinery from the pictures I saw.

 

Schneider has turned into a train wreck in the past couple of years. They lost out on a lot of good drivers by implementing a pre-screen lift test that eliminated over 50% of possible candidates and it had absolutely nothing to do with performing the job. I would know, I was one of the candidates that "failed" that pre-work physical even though I had worked for them previously and never had an issue lifting any hoses or performing the requirements of the job. Somebody in corporate is waaaaaaayyy overthinking things and Schneider is getting its lunch eaten because of it.

 

Thousands of people are trying to get into trucking. most dont make a year or even 6 mounths. 50% is a big number, I'm sure that it's more than that. The smaller the company, the less the turn over.

Yes all companys have they're not so fun side.

 

My ex-neighbor was really sold on the company A&R; he drove a long nose Pete, beautiful equipment. I was fortunate where I worked, we had dry bulk and liquid and were trained on both so we could take whichever load was available. Dry bulk is good trucking!