Schnieder National ..... What BS!

Not to play advocate for any trucking company but $350 bucks a week to sit around and do nothing does not seem bad to me! As for the food issue, you'd have to pay for it being home anyways, no?

 

Let me play devils advocate for you.

Are you the only one in your family that eats, while you're on the road?

350 after taxes equals about 250 if you're lucky. Another $100 to eat, leaves little to send home to the wife and kids.

Thank goodness I don't have one of these jobs.

 

Good point but it does not apply to me since I am single with no kids. I'd hang around a hotel room for $350 a week. Especially if it had a pool.

 

LMAO..and I would be right there with you. If I was single.

Pool side is the place to be, when laid over

 

Yep, I agree, Schneider is full of crap, they are rip off artists...and they are still up to their old tricks as far as I can tell since recently hearing from the lady I shared a hotel room with while starting orientation with Schneider last year


she's not driving for Schneider anymore due to some kind of mix up in scheduling and then they let her go...terminated. Do you think they will forgive the contract they made her and everyone else sign at the beginning of the orientation?? HA! She'll have to fight them in court.

 

would like some more information on this before I can argue with ya.

What do you mean mix up with scheduling? She must have been with them past training because her employment isn't official until she has completed everything with training and getting her CDL. Can't get "terminated" durning training because you aren't an employee yet. Would like to know what happened after that point that got her terminated.

 

Schnieder..Where to start on this place. Hell does not even cover it. School was Full of useless info, 98% of the stuff they told us in School had nothing to do with the job. I went to the Green Bay School, for 2 weeks(no exp before that) My Road Teacher was pretty good at teaching us the stuff that we needed to know about shifting, bumping, etc. But the Class room was just BS.

After school I was sent to Kansas City for 2 weeks with a TE. Spent 2 weeks in a Day cab and a 48' truck making local stuff on a auto parts account. After 2 weeks I went back to Green Bay to take my last test and my CDL. Well when I got back there they were told to give me 3 or 4 hours in the bigger truck to get use to it again. Well they didnt and just put me on the road in a Sleeper and 53'. Needless to say I failed the 1st time(Thier test not my CDL).

I was able to retake thier test the next day after about 3 hours on the road with that a Teacher that drove day cabs and knew what I was going through. I passed that, then took my CDL(only missed 5 points). After that was all said and done with, I was sent to Gery IN to pick up my truck, WHAT A MESS! This truck had been sitting there for over a year, She had air leaks all over the place, a smoking motor, and was missing parts!

Got it in the shop the next day they took about 7 hours to fix it, Once I got my truck back and moved in I sat in Gery IN for almost a week before I even heard about a load.

Things where great for about the 1st 6 months. I was pushing hard getting about 2000 miles a week(picking up late loads from other drivers etc) After about 3 months it droped to nothing. Id sit at a OC or Pilot for 2 days or so, but they seemed to move me right before my lay over pay would start.
Things started to pick back up and I was getting doubke or triple loads, Which was no way I could pick up 3 different loads going to 3 different places, and my DM would yell at me cause I couldnt do it.

After about 5, months things stoped again. I was back to sitting at Pilots, One week I sat in LA for almost a full week without seeing a load. Then when I got one I had to drive back to Dallas to get it. I went almost 2 weeks without a pay check(had a week off from being out 2 months)

I only staied with them 6 months and I had to push myself to do that. From not getting a pay check to a truck that was breaking down every other week and nothing being able to get fixed, and a DM that just sucked, I couldnt take it anymore.

What made me leave for good is I was sent home for time off and I had gotten the flu, I was stil sick when my home time endded and I called them and said look Im sick Ill be up and running in a few days, they said that was fine. When I was ready to go back out they wouldnt let me go back out till I went to a doctor and got a No meds slip or something like that, Well I couldnt afford a doctor since they werent paying me!. So I got a letter in the mail saying if I didnt go and get the slip byut XX day I would be let go, I got the letter in the mail 2 days after the date I would be let go, the whole time I was talking to my DM and telling him I cant afford it and etc.

The kicker of all this was when I was let go(they say I quit) I asked what to do with the truck, Do you want me to take it to the drop lot 180 miles or so and leave it there or what, They never said anything(kept calling and sending quallcomm) A few days later a guy that lives 15miles from me came over and said he was assinged to the truck. I said ok...THEN they tried to charge me 600 bucks since I didnt take the truck back to Des Moines. BUt that was taken off and they never did charge me.

Now Im pretty sure I have a Truck Aban on my DAC(waiting for it in the mail).

This company is just pure ####!. If you work for them watch your pay checks, Things like Truck Main. and etc pop up every now and then. I didnt get paid for about 50% of the scales I paid for, or the Tolls here in KS. I wont go back to this place for anything.

 

send me a private too. 3 hrs a week, shoot, I sit waiting on a load that much every day... sometimes twice a day... and I don't turn down the short hauls either. My dispatchers know I'll go, so they usually try to reward the shorties with a cross-country to back it up.

 

...and you know your company over-uses that motel when they've got their own lot lizzards...

 

She, like myself, has already obtained a CDL bought and paid for from another school and didn't need to pay for more schooling - just a refresher with a mentor for a few weeks tops - The most important thing I am pointing out here is how Schneider forces people into signing a contract during orientation (given no time to throughly read the thing because of being rushed out the door to the yard to go over inspection)

I was told this contract stated what the pay per mile would be and for how long - upon reading it later in my room, I found it was a contract for "school" not at all what the recruiter told me in the first place, the Schneider recruiter told me that it would be a contract for how long I was to work for Schneider and what the pay was to be at start (.38 per mile.) When I confronted the safety manager the following day about the verbage in this contract that didn't make sense for my situation being that I am already a licensed driver - not a person trying to obtain a CDL, it was brushed off and I was told the recruiter must be new and doesn't know what she is talking about.....

So, Why would people that have already obtained their license elsewhere need to pay 5,000 dollars for something they already have and schooling they have already been through and received a CDL from the Department of Motor Vehicles? It's a racket that Schneider has been getting away with for a long time now, and it must stop....this is how they make money? Ripping off the new drivers by charging them for somethng they already have? and then letting them go for whatever excuse they can come up with but still hold that contract stating the new driver owes them for training??? it's a bunch of ##&*! From what I hear they do this to a lot of new drivers. I think it's how they make their extra money - ripping off new and unaware, inexperienced drivers, for why else are they continuing to "hire" if they really do not have the work load to keep these people busy? I smell a huge law suit in the future...how about you?