Schneider National

Wait a sec - I glossed over some of the pay breakdown but did I read this right?

You thought you would work a month on, 1 day off, pulling 60ish hour weeks for $56k/year? And you were actually excited about that?

I’ve never really understood the push for hourly jobs because in my job market hourly trucking pays about $15/hr, and I’m averaging $35/hr (plus there’s 2 of us, so at 120hrs a week the cheques add up nicely).

Of course, I don’t work a month at a time for one lousy day off. I haven’t needed to wash my clothes in a truck stop for years because I won’t take a job that requires being gone longer than 12 days. Now I am gone 7, and can take up to 5 days off.

In what universe is working 250 hrs a month for $56k even remotely competitive?

 

I've made somewhere in the vicinity of 36k with Schneider fresh out of Schneider school in 2005 (11 months work, 3 weeks school + 1week with a trainer), 26cpm, worked like a dog without days off to the point of getting short waking up amnesia moments and hearing whispering sounds in parking lots . The next year I took it much easier and made 28k at 28cpm in 7.5 months before quitting. Schneider was much less strict on logs back then, but trucking went to crapper compensation wise. Blue collar work in general went to crapper so there is nowhere to run, Trump and his class buddies want more and more, hopefully you've got a few extra pennies on 2017 tax return.