How is Schneider regional?

Also I should add, I'm assuming you're referring to regular van regional and not intermodal or a dedicated account. In those cases it's different routes.

 

@Teddy_Salad - if you hire onto Van Truckload regional you will run all states east of Omaha, plus maybe a little further west. Intermodal or dedicated would be different.

Gotta ask - what's so scary about the East Coast? Some of the hardest, most unforgiving, scariest places I've gone to are in the Midwest. The horse farm where I backed up so much the QC put me on the drive line, the caves in KC and Quincy, Miller in Milwaukee can be fun, the metal place in the Twin Cities (blind side 180 back off a scale into a dock, not bad in summer in winter you lose 3 feet and most visibility to snow), the bakery in the middle of no place OH where you're backing uphill with 40k of flour - using the acceptor just to keep the truck from lugging- until you cross the balance point and start dipping down into the dock at 15 mph. I could go on and on.

NYC is scary the first time, then it's just annoying. The only thing about the NE that's harder than the MW is parking, but trip plan right and it's a non issue.

 

Really? I have been doing Miller Milwaukee almost everyday for the past 3 months. I guess I am worried about getting in to a spot I cannot get out of. I have enough gray hairs and don't want an ulcer. I am set up to do regular van- midwest regional. I was going to go Dedicated Georgia Pacific...maybe I should switch back to that?

 

You're not implying that you take a 53' trailer into the boroughs, are you Mr. Trainer?

 

Of course not. I would never wait for 4 light cycles in order to get space to make a button hook turn underneath an elevated train in order to deliver to a grocery store.

 

If you've been running Miller in Milwakee then you've got enough skill to handle the east coast.

Me, I'd do the GP dedicated over system. If my dbl ever leaves I will make the switch over to GPS dedicated.

 

So if I call the recruiter and tell him I have changed my mind and do not go to Orientation, that is considered me quitting? That makes no sense.

 

Sorry, not familiar with all the lingo...GP = Georgia Pacific Dedicated I assume...what is "System" and what is GPS?

 

system means just running whatever freight is available, not running dedicated for a particular company. GPS is auto correct adding an s to GP. Seriously, #### autocorrect, it was right when I typed it.

 

So then a Georgia Pacific Dedicated would be your choice instead of System? If you think that is better, I will consider changing.