Newbie truckers. Don't work for these companies. Heed my warning!

Every one of those companies have been discussed and 'warned' about add nauseum here (as well as dozens and dozens others); and once this thread slips to page two, it STILL won't do any good....people just don't head....even if they read.
"Gotta start somewhere" is the answer you'll get, and they do what they do when they do it.

 

dunno, white dog.........I started with Schneider straight out of school over 4 years ago......I like it just fine and have no intention whatsoever of ever leaving (I don't even bother to check the want ads). So, just because someone doesn't like a particular company, doesn't necessarily make it a bad company. The OP listed the favorite whipping boys of the big shot long term / OO crowd without have worked at worked at any, save one. Not a lot of credibility, frankly.

 

Schneider has a NO cell phone use policy ?

 

yep......and imagine what the world would be like if everyone, especially cars, did the same thing

 

There would be a lot of cars with whip antennas ?

 

And their Canadian Equivalent Hyndman Transport Canada. I didn't even get a chance to work for these guys, before they basically treated me/my buddies who also applied like ####. Their answer to a simple question about pay and wait times was "its on the website, can't you read" "I'm not asking about pay per mile, I mean layover, breakdown, detention etc etc" "If you have to ask, you don't need to work here" NO ####! Wow, way to recruit!

 

As Rocky would say..."Thank you Mr Know It All...." http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5LBPejQpQ...00/Book+of+Bad+Habits-Being+a+Know+It+All.jpg

 

I guess I don't see the point of starting a thread saying not to work for 13 companies when you've only worked for 1 of them. Then again I don't understand alot of things these days. Yea I read alot on here too. That's not personal experience. I can only comment about Schneider and I usually don't even do that since I work on a little 40 man account that most people don't even know about. I'm not qualified to chime in on Van truckload, regional, Bulk, Rail, or the big box store dedicated runs because I don't work on them and they all work very differently than us.

If i did have to chime in and offer advice to an unhappy camper, I'd say Perhaps try a different division before writing a company off completely.

 

And just what fun would that be? There would be nothing to complain about........

 

.....and TTR would implode within a week.