Changing divisions?

Ok... I got suckered into intermodal (hey at least it wasn't a Family Dollar account right?), and hate every second of it. Living in Wisconsin, I was hired as "regional" but I am doing freight between Green Bay and Chicago - "channel" freight. I talked to my manager, and the head guy in chicago, said I wanna do regional as I was hired for, got a phone call "hey next week we're going to dispatch you regional". Great! So the next week comes... I'm doing more channel freight (same customers I was at the previous weeks - 100% of them) only now I have appointment times instead of open appointments, and they call it "regional". No more miles, and now I can't run until I'm out of time I end up shutting down early because my appointment is a 9am live unload (and told regional will have more live loads/unloads - keep in mind same customers the day cab people are doing, except they call me regional and make me sleep in my truck to wait out appointments -what?!).

Furthermore - intermodal has junk equipment. Even their new equipment is mini-sleepers, not full size condos. Sorry, not interested in living in a shoebox 5 days a week.

The nail in the coffin though for me is these railyards. I don't mind them, except for the fact I spend hours there frequently doing chasis flips, repairs, etc. and get paid almost NOTHING for it.

I'm to the point I'd rather be away from home longer and get MILES than work half of my week for FREE.

So my question ... what are the odds of me being able to switch divisions at Schneider after a month or two? Or should I just start looking at another company? I really don't want to jump through all the new-hire hoops again, but I will if it means having more than 1200 miles a week.

 

Maybe I will start volunteering to work an extra day on the weekends - they have been offering $50 bonus if you work an extra day (intermodal we work 5 days a week typically) and I think I saw it was up to $75 this weekend. I could make some easy extra money that way anyway.

 

I asked so many questions when I was trying to decide what position I wanted to start with at Schneider. I have pages full of notes from talking to their different recruiters! Actually the reason I didn't go bulk was because I was told when you're unloading you gotta stand there and babysit the hoses for hours on end? Oh, and I didn't want to be climbing all over the top of a tanker in winter. lol

 

That was my original reason for thinking I would go tanker. How's the equipment in tanker? I seem to remember hearing their equipment is about as shabby as intermodal. lol