Trip Planning / Time Management..

I'm not sure where the impression came from that he is "afraid to drive at night", I guess I worded it wrong. It wasn't that he is afraid of night driving at all, hell, he took off at 11:30PM and ran that truck through to daylight hours straight to the OC when the ABS alarms started going off in it. They fixed it, he's back on the road.

The concern came in that he started on this load, and knew that it would be late no matter what he did. Delivering a load late is unprofessional and as someone else stated here, too much of that and he could be cut. He also wasn't aware that a load would be dispatched before his listed NAT that was provided (again, a rookie mistake made by both of us) - and another rookie mistake made was not getting enough rest in the last stretch of the 34 reset, so driving all night meant he would be running on fumes so to speak. He loaded up on the coffee and got his wheels rolling anyway. THAT worries me - especially in light of how hard it can be on the mind / body to drive long stretches like that with little rest while you're adapting to the new work routine. (Reference the shiny new Schneider truck wrapped around an oak tree...)

At any rate, again, I really wish to thank everyone's responses. I've spent most of the day reading a lot of the forums here, and we will both take a lot of advice to heart. We don't learn if we don't ask where we went wrong, and nobody has to reach out to answer, but many of you did. So thank you!

To update, he updated all of the information, drove all night, worked it out with his DBL, and they're keeping him on the load. (Also: I didn't mention Schneider specifically at first, because I didn't want to come across as bashing the company. I think they are doing well by a rookie, and I figured the mistakes were our own to learn from, not a reflection on Schneider).