Schneider National Carriers - Green Bay, Wi.

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Be sure to keep us informed on your Big truck truck drivin' experience(s), Ur.
Maybe all that happened for a GOOD reason.
ya reckon.

 

I am sure it did and I will be thankful thanks.

Take Care and Be Safe

 

You're still a young man, Ziggy! TOO young to understand, yet!

As you get older, your body will betray you! It will develop aches and pains in areas you didn't know you owned (and a few you'll wish you didn't). The eyes will weaken and your arms will become too short to read your log without glasses. The hearing starts to go and you hear bells ringing 24/7, and you can't understand the evening news without turning it up too loud for others. You'll quit running up stairs because your knees hurt so bad, and if you sleep wrong, you can't get out of bed because of back pain. Blood pressure starts to inch up every year for no apparent reason, and you can't lose weight no matter how little you eat, or what you eat, or how much you exercise. Even if you can get "it" up, it's now just too ###### much work for the reward!

MANY healthy people do on occasion get dizzy or pass out when they stand too quickly, and it can be caused from not eating well, too little sleep, or any number of non-disqualifying reasons that have nothing to do with any underlying "condition". Any Doctor will tell you that, and get this... Doctors don't know it all anyway! I'm not a Doctor, but neither are you, and you shouldn't try to diagnose anyone because of a single symptom or otherwise. There's no stopping the aging process, and someday you will regret how you treat your body today, no matter how well you THINK you treat it! Payback is Hell! The WorkWell assessment and DOT physical is a joke at 29, but they are serious concerns as you get older. Just wait until you wake up one morning and discover you're a 19 year old man trapped in a 60 year old body! It's sobbering, I can tell you!

I know at the ripe old age of 58 that I can still do the job, and do it safely, but I still have to pass the freaking tests that were designed by young people for young people!

 

Thanks for the reply and I understand and agree with what you are saying and the fact that docs don't know it all...hence their business name "practice." Still, I wouldn't easily brush off losing consciousness. There was some reason (of whatever type) that caused it. I havent heard of taking a leak (admins, sorry, lol) causing one to pass out. Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl...that can because it can cause one to strain and such; and even more so, that combined with standing up can cause one to get dizzy. He mentioned it was just...urinating.
Im just saying one shouldnt get mad because something, some thing down the line caused him to pass out and there was a reason of some sort that should have been identified as best as possible. There may be no underlying condition, but there has to be a reason for the body to shut down on itself.
Thats what I was trying to get at.

 

Passing out one time 12 years ago doesn't constitute as a "condition." A condition and an event are two different things. If you passed out when you stood up, like the more common you have a brief visual black out upon standing up, it's because of blood pressure. A severe one-time disturbance in blood pressure could have been caused by a list of environmental factors. The bottom line is it was not persistent, so it's not a condition. Schneider is a bunch of lying idiots.

 

I wouldn't really all them lying idiots...since you were going to go and work for them. Totally amazing how your view of them changes when they don't want to hire ya.

We could argue on semantics all day long. In their view, you passed out. Thats not a lie, you did. Something, whatever reason that might have been, caused you to lose the inability to be conscious. NO matter how you look at it, no matter how you spin it, that single situation and event is NOT a good thing. Sure, it may not have happened since which is obviously a great thing....but that single incident raises a flag to many people.

If you had an array of 100 doctors to chose from, the worlds best neurosurgeons....would you choose one to perform brain surgery on you who had a moment where they at only one point in the past, lost motor functin while making salad, and turned a head of lettuce into coleslaw?

 

Hi all, I am new and just starting my career as a driver,but I have worked all of my life.I have been in the bar business and have found out a few things about jobs in general. First, in a big company you can’t make every one happy. You are going to piss off someone sooner or later. What you have to look at is the percentage of those that are happy with their company. Another is this you are being paid to do a job, if you do what they expect and do what you say you will do you will get along fine. One company is just as bad as the other but which one is the best, only matters to the individual.

 

I am supposed to start their school July 5th. See you out there

 

I work at a distribution center at one of the grocery chains in Florida. I work the yard (yard hostler) and see many different companies there. Just one example of Schneider was one weekend not long ago that a company driver came in on Friday night to get a load of cardboard bales. He finally left on sunday afternoon, (two days later). I sure felt sorry for him and he called his dispatch (to no avail) and had to wait there two days.
If I were looking for a company to drive for I would surely check with some Schneider drivers to see if this is a normal occurance.

 

I haven't heard too many bad stories about Schneider as far as waiting that long. I know that Florida is the armpit of the country in terms of...well for this example, in terms of freight leaving the state, lots of drivers sit more than normal when they are down there.