Going back to OTR with Schneider Lease Purchase!

spyder7723 · Feb 16, 2020

drvrtech77 said: ↑

Info I found shows low end salary being $53k up to $200k for a pilot at southwest..
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53. Minus uniforms. Minus hotel. Minus loan repayments for the company flight school. A first year pilot is lucky to see 35k taxable income.

Dave_in_AZ · Feb 16, 2020

I just read an add in Land Line magazine for Mercer. It sounds pretty awesome. You might think about going there.

BIF MALIBU · Feb 16, 2020

dieselpowered said: ↑

If that's so why is the entire line of these have been grounded not the entire line of small planes they new issues
existed before it was even put into service

yesterday the seattle news said the boeing engineers wanna go on strike again because they are trated so unfairly

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spyder7723 · Feb 16, 2020

Dave_in_AZ said: ↑

I just read an add in Land Line magazine for Mercer. It sounds pretty awesome. You might think about going there.
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Nah. Mercer sucks. Landstar has all the good freight.

Dave_in_AZ · Feb 16, 2020

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dieselpowered · Feb 16, 2020

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The reason the Boeing 737 MAX is grounded is because instead of retiring the 737 and drawing up an expensive clean-sheet replacement, they decided to take a shortcut and troubleshoot their way around a 50 year old airframe, trying to fit too big engines under a plane with too low ground clearance. All because Airbus was stealing the show with their A320Neo and Boeing's 737 was losing market share.

The Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 are competitors in the narrow-body jet market. Think of them as Coca Cola and Pepsi. If one creates a better product, the market will shift drastically. That's what Airbus did with the A320Neo. It had bigger, much more efficient engines, but flew just like the old A320. This meant immediate savings in operating costs, and since the plane was essentially the same, training current A320 pilots on the Neo was also cheap and easy. The market shifted to Airbus. So then Boeing tried to fit the same big engines on the 737. With lower ground clearance than the A320, engineers had to troubleshoot their way into shoehorning the engines on the 737. They did it, and also claimed it flew just like the old plane. Spoiler Alert: IT DIDN'T.

Now the engines changed the handling of the aircraft. The plane now liked to pitch up excessively into the sky during takeoff, which risks the plane stalling and falling out of the sky. This "necessitated" the silent introduction of the autonomous MCAS system that's at the heart of why 2 737 MAX 8s fell from the sky months apart, killing almost 350 people. It wasn't a big-plane small-plane issue. Corporate greed grounded the world's most popular jet airliner.

The 737 MAX's MCAS debacle draws so many comparisons with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10's cargo door scandal in the 70s. The funny thing is, Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in the 90s, as their reputation never recovered from the DC-10s missteps. Only problem was, this was more like a McDonnell Douglas takeover of Boeing when it came to the boardroom brass, and so McDonnell Douglas leadership tore apart Boeing's engineering culture and replaced it with cost cutting practices and a shareholder first mentality. As soon as the merger was announced, the die was cast. The DC-10 would soon have a successor. And that successor, is the 737 MAX.
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All well good crap but its more an electronics, not a really frame issue because the option that would have gave the pilots more info before crash was not standard was an option and to save cost they didn't put it in but that alone isn't the only issue but what leads to 2 of the crashes. small planes more so propellers planes would take over a propulsion engine any day they have their issues especially you neglect it but you turn a lot quicker the one I fly. it is funny how an option of safety is optional on a plane meant haul passengers.

plynnjr92 · Feb 17, 2020

Truck is fixed!! Didn't replace the headlight as the crack on the top corner was miniscule but the driver's side hood was replaced and paint matched. My CDL is reinstated with Schneider and now I'll get back to the groove of work.

kemosabi49 · Feb 17, 2020

plynnjr92 said: ↑

Truck is fixed!! Didn't replace the headlight as the crack on the top corner was miniscule but the driver's side hood was replaced and paint matched. My CDL is reinstated with Schneider and now I'll get back to the groove of work.
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Well hammer down then. Be safe.

plynnjr92 · Feb 17, 2020

So I finally got ahold of my SFI account admin and asked to have my next 2 truck payments deferred. Not doing so would probably mean going the next 2-3 weeks without any money in my pocket. He agreed, but when I start payments again they'll take an extra $250/wk plus $50-$60/wk in late fees until the truck is current again. Not awesome but I'll deal with it.

Also my insurance is sending me a $625 check for my repair downtime. Again, not totally awesome but I'll take it. If anything when I get to a point where I can pay the late amount off early I'll just call SFI and have them take my whole settlement if they need to. I can survive 1 week without anything. 2 is a no-no.

Planned myself for the rest of the pay week. It's a paltry $3880 gross but it's better than nothing. Plus with the replacement hood piece I'll need a new NY Hut sticker. When the repair guy removed the sticker from the old fender he put it on my dash for me, but it now reads "Void" all over it, so I can't reapply it to the truck.

Just another day in the life of a kid WAY in over his head.
At least I cancelled that stupid ATBS though! Got my own tax gal now.

DAX_ · Feb 21, 2020

Does Schneider cover lumpers

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