My time with SNI starts tomorrow

The simulator joke. A big expensive hunk of junk, basically a video game. Isn't even close to actually driving a real truck in my opinion.

 

Listen to the coaching provided, pay attention to details and you'll do fine.

 

and dont take it personally. Its all designed to HELP you in areas you are weak or can show marked improvement in.

Noob in the truck with me out with TE was a guy like that. Any constructive instruction was viewed as some kind of personal attack. Saw him a couple months after we started and he had already quit and moved over to Knight Refrigerated, claiming he was being forced to run illegal. Ummm, no.

 

Crazy I'm from the Corpus Christi area also and looking into Schneider. I'm quitting my job of 11 years and going into trucking. Going to start DelMar training in a week or so. Let me ask you , once applied with Schneider can I go do the drug test right away to eliminate down time ? I'm just saying because I can't afford not having money coming in too long. thanx.

 

Thanks Gentleroger and Mickeyrat for all the advise, I sincerely do appreciate it, I honestly just want to get back driving OTR again, it's been since 2008 since I've been out on the road, it's crazy how things, policies, rules and regulations have changed in the coarse of a few years. Back when I started driving OTR, I team drove with my brother-in-law for a few years until he got sick, he was diabetic and was unable to pass his medical exam due to being insulin dependent therefore wasn't able to obtain his medical card. Then I went solo for a while then found a job driving in the oilfields locally. Anyways, back then rules and regulations weren't as stringent as they are now. But anyways I've been itching to get back over the road for a while now, the issue was that almost every trucking company wants recent experience, if you don't have it, you need to take a "refresher course". I looked into Celedon and almost committed to them but something didn't feel right about a 5 day refresher course and signing a year contract to drive for them. Don't get me wrong, it's not the fact that I can't stay with them for a year, it's the fact that they "legally" own you for a year or completion of 120,000 miles. Granted, there's always ways around a contract as such, but I spoke with another recruiter from another trucking company and she stated that if someone came to them and they were under a contract with another trucking company, they wouldn't hire them. Same case with PTL, they still keep calling me every week, stating that I've been approve for their orientation and all they need is my confirmation as to when I'll be attending. I also looked into a local community college which offers a refresher course but it was a expensive for a forty hour course.

 

Manuel361,
Small world, I'm limited to what I know maybe "Mickeyrat or Gentleroger" can give you more specific details on your question, so I'm only going to tell you what know and what I've been told. It depends on what division you're going into, I initially was going into the bulk (tanker) division out of Houston, it's my understanding that in that division they do conduct their own drug screens "on site", but if you're going into the regional division like I am, you have to do it prior to you going into training but you have to wait until obviously you get hired, then they'll send you an e-mail with information on where to go there in Corpus along with a bar code included in that e-mail, you have to take that paperwork to Concentra Medical Center off of Weber and SPID and they'll do the urine analysis and hair follicle test. Then JBurton who's @ training right now Dallas OC stated that once there, they do a urine analysis to check for protein and sugar levels in your urine. I hope that information helps, I'm not sure if you can or not but if you like PM me and I'll give you my number so incase you want to keep in touch. I'm not sure it's allowed to give out you number on here though.

 

I appreciate the reply and the info, yea I am planning to do the bulk division otr til I'm able to get in the bulk division regional if they have jobs for that in South Texas. Tankers is where I see myself but hopefully it all works out the way I plan it and yea hope they hire me. Being the only income in my family I'm just trying to do as much research as possible with Schneider, seem like a gd company for inexperienced drivers.