Great Lakes service plaza, mile 170 westbound Ohio Turnpike. Showers and Starbucks. Good times.
Pilot, I-77 exit 101 in Canton, OH
After driving a brand-new auto the previous week, I spent last week in a Columbia with ~287,000 miles on the odometer – or more likely, that...
Did my one-month “safe track” check when I came on last week. This is now the third driving test I’ve done since I started at the beginning of...
Thanks! I'm slowly accumulating parts in my toolbox- extra gladhand seals, a hacksaw purchased (unsurprisingly, at Walmart) when I arrived for...
Came back from a load one night last week and discovered a headlight out as I was doing my final walkaround, so I bobtailed over to the shop and...
Pilot. Georgetown, KY.
Just shows how little I know. The problem wasn’t the brake at all, but a bad hub. When a mechanic finally showed up, he discovered that the hub...
Well, this has not been fun. Reached my last stop today and smelled something burning when I got out of the truck after backing into the dock....
A few more thoughts on the automatic. It’s not quite as simple as a car, and technically it’s not an automatic transmission, but an “automated”...
So I drove an automatic for a couple of days this week – actually two of them. One of the downsides of starting out here is that it takes a while...
Took a load down to West Virginia last week, and while the last couple of blocks looked tricky when I ran the directions and checked the satellite...
Obetz. After the rain. All in all, not as bad as I expected.
After a week of orientation, training and testing in Carlisle, a week out on the account I’d be running with a TE (Training Engineer), and a third...
Well, it’s another Schneider thread about starting with the Mighty Pumpkin. There’s already a lot of these out there, making me hesitant about...
TDriver4Life - Yes - went over a couple other jobs with the recruiter, but the Walmart account fits best with what I'm looking for. Orientation...
Welp... Will be joining the Mighty Pumpkin next month; heading to orientation first week of February. Thanks to all the SNI drivers on here who...
Cityboy21, no problem. I went through Sage Truck School, and I don't think Schneider gave me an hours requirement on the refresher, though the...
All the info you've gotten here is what I've gotten from Schneider as well. I have my CDL, but have been out of a truck for almost a decade....
Thanks again for the responses & discussion - helpful as I think through my options. I should probably point out here that my original post wasn't...
