$1100 to start with Schneider?

I pulled containers around Chicago for JB Hunt for 3 1/2 years and never touched freight. 50k a year average. A new driver starting at $1100 a week? I don't know, seems like a bit of a stretch to me. When I started in 1998 I think I was paid .24 a mile and unloading at the dollar stores paid $40 to fingerprint a whole trailer. I would ask Schneider drivers. Recruiters get paid when a driver shows up for orientation so they sometimes stretch the truth to put money in their wallet.

 

From what the OP wrote it sounds like the recruiter told him $1100, per week and it wasn't mileage based? Like in salary? Not only was the guy selling a bridge but it's in Arizona on on ocean front property.

 

Yes, you can make that with Schneider. The pay is milage, stop pay, pickup pay, piece pay, added together per load. You can also take home that much with Schneider tanker liquid or dry bulk which is easy trucking and easy money. You can take home over a grand a week with any tanker/hazmat job. Ask Schneider about attending their tanker school.

 

That sounds like maybe the recruiter for the school told the OP this - not an actual Schneider recruiter :smt017

 

I want that pay. 3 years at sni never made that in one week. Well after taxes of course

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I talked to a recruiter in West. Memphis yesterday and she said the starting mileage was .28 per mile for new drivers out of school. Seems a lot lower than other companies are starting at that I've contacted.

 

A lot of people in this forum are bullshiters. I talked to a guy at Schneider that's bringing home 850$ a week for regional work through Schneider. So OTR 1,100$ sounds very reasonable to me. The guy I tAlked to was a first year driver. Then I talked to a guy from Werner making 450$ a week as a first year driver. So the money's there you just have to find the right company.

 

He's selling you a bridge. He's also selling you oceanfront property in Montana. No one pays a salary rate for a OTR position. It's either by the mile or by a load percentage.

 

I think that the recruiter that is promising $1100.a week name is Helen Waite , so if you want $1100. a week guarantee from Schnider ,go to Helen Waite !
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After a while you know how to avoid most traffic. Especially in the techno age when google real-time traffic is available to help choose your route.

I would rather run local and be home every night with my family as opposed to being out the weeks or months in a row OTR.

Mikeeee