How Schneider screw new driver to enslave them

It's an internal only record. If I owned 100 trucks I would want to know when a driver banged up my equipment. I would need to show cause that I fired the schmuck for a reason. It wasn't the minor scratch, but a series of stupid decisions that cost me money. If I don't have a record of it then I can get sued for wrongful termination.

As long as you're with the company it's not a big deal. But if you use them as a reference and they say "fired, not eligible for rehire" it can be a barrier.

Just ran into a driver at the fuel pumps who didn't have his IFTA stickers on the truck. His permit book is a year out of date. This is the type of guy who will claim that Schneider "forced him to get a violation". You go over the permit book twice in orientation, and messages are sent out about IFTA and permit updates. If you don't get them, it's your own darn fault.

 

Ahhhh, ok, so when people say that a company put something on their record, they don't mean their driving record. It's an internal company thing. Makes sense now.

 

It's is the drivers fault.... however if that's a company truck the company is as dopey as the driver.....

But it's Schneider, so we already know they are dopey

 

Let me use myself as a example. I hired onto EcKmiller out of Rockport IN back in the mid 90's for flatbed steel and aluminum to breweries. For a number of months things went well, even dedicated to the I-10 strictly oil rig pipe one way and chain the other. Profitable. Winter? Ha just rain. Eventually a dispatcher refused to back off his overnight delivery scheduling. I barked at him, fired him talked to supervisor and found another dispatcher.

Something went bad in the office one day, I thought nothing of it. Then a few weeks later I noticed miles shorter and shorter. Hum, been there done that started using my savings to make the best of it. Of couse when a company runs 350,000 loads a year, one driver sitting on 300 miles a week is nothing to them. I quit.

I got black listed. The State took it to trial based on shorted miles. My DAC was destroyed etc. I won the case and it was worth some money in unemployment etc. They flipped.

That is my story in a nutshell. Add about 6 trucking companies with similar stories, (And they are no longer in business themselves except one) over the years you have a good idea of my battles with bosses. The first thing they do is short miles. So you quit. Then they burn you so you cannot get hired.

Shrugs.

 

If Schneider falsified your records, sue them.

If you really think Schneider cares about you and is willing to spend the time and effort to falsify records after you've already left them (or ever) then the suggestion of tin foil couture is appropriate.

 

There is one thing I don't think anyone talked about much.

Driver so and so out of suitcase street USA gets his CDL. Travels the grey dog to orientation and listens to the propag.. er.. training lessons and is assigned a truck after scaring a trainer a little bit.

Now.

There is one person inside the Driver so and so's company. That person is a keeper of a brand new folder with so and so's name written in block letters on tab. That folder sits in the desk of the keeper, usually driver manager or some other elaborate excessively stylized bs pc title. for a while.

Anything bad so and so does, no matter how minor... especially how minor goes into writing and goes into that folder.

Provided sufficient fatness of heavy folder against So and So... he is released from the purgutary of having to add to that folder anymore freeing the Driver manager to clear the drawer out to make room for new driver recruits.

 

Okay, no DOT violations. That's good. But how about company violations...late loads, minor fender benders on private property, discrepancies on your application, alledged theft of company property, service failures, disputes with shippers or other customers?
Man, there has to be something that they're putting on your DAC that is giving you a bad reputation.
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