Considering schnieder, read first!

When I get really tired, like can hardly keep my eyes open tired, I feel and act very much like I'm drunk. I have the same visual disturbances that I do when I'm drunk, which makes me dizzy. I also can't think or walk or talk clearly. Don't you guys have this? It happens to me every time if I get tired enough. Things just start shutting down. That's how I knew 100% there was nothing wrong with me.

 

I work for stupid ### Schneider and am 21. I get home 6 out of 7 nights a week and get 2 days off. Call the recruiter and ask if there are any dedicated accounts in your area. They won't guarantee being home every night, but if you live pretty close to the terminal you will be able to go home for your 10 hour breaks if you can make it out and back why not? No sense sleeping in the truck at the terminal if your house is nearby. See if you can go down there and talk to the drivers about hometime. Don't talk believe anything the recruiter says, and half of what the DBLs say.

 

what the name of your company?

 

Congratulations on the 60K. It is not bad at all. And you are home every night and weekend. I would like to see if any otr driver made that much money. Their company would get a gold star from me. But I don't think I will have any takers.

 

60k A year really isn't that difficult. Back in 1997 and 1998 I made over 60k a year working for JB Hunt and was home every weekend plus a couple times during the week doing a dedicated run regionally. Servicing the Procter and Gamble account out of Mehoopany Pa I got paid 70.00 a day salary plus .28 cpm back then. I would routinely rack up over 3000 miles per week. Back then JB actually put an add in the trucking magazines bragging about how many drivers made it into their 50k club. They never mentioned the drivers that made over 60k or the trainers that made well over 70k.

Now I work for a different carrier called Eastern Freight ways. I make more money here than I ever made at JB. My best year as a solo driver was over 75 grand AND home every weekend for at least 36 hours. Of course this company has a different pay scale than JB did. Here I get paid for mileage PLUS: every drop, every hook, every stop, congestion pay, detention pay after 2 hours, Breakdown pay, paid holidays, paid personal days, 3 weeks vacation, etc. In the 7 years I have been with this carrier I am AVERAGING ALMOST 70 GRAND. This past year I teamed up with my spouse and we have a dedicated route which allows us to make around $2500. per week together. By the end of the year we will have earned in excess of 125 grand together. Not bad for a first year team with the wife fresh out of truck driving school.

There are good companies out there but it is doubtful you will ever see them advertising in the trucking magazines. The good jobs are filled through networking and word of mouth from friends in many cases.

 

Hlaird, first...I think it would be a huge favor to us members that are going to argue against you, if you would keep your replies to like...one, instead of 23 consecutive ones.

You complained about medical stuff...but I dont remember much about maintenance. Might be helpful for me to counter your claims if you had something to tell us here in your areas of concern.

Mainly because with every issue you have written about...I have yet to have a problem. So....something has to be going on here for such a vast difference to occur.

 

I'm curious to know what you consider reasonable hours to be.

 

I agree with you their are many things that could go wrong after a pretrip inspection, I have been a volunteer firefighter for 15 years and EMT for the past two and have seen just about everything, hang in there. I am a newbe to trucking after being laid off from my past employer of 23 years.

 

40-60 depending on the driver.