Heading To Schneider

Yep, the waiting is what kills the most. Kinda surprised Big Orange was lacking with load info, usually they had all the t's crossed and I's dotted when I worked there a few years ago.

Good luck in your future endeavors, trucking nowadays is a stressful lifestyle!

 

As a Schneider intermodal veteran myself -- the above post doesn't surprise me in the least.

The saddest part of the above is that the poster apparently based his CDL career decision all on one of the poorer examples of what's out there -- & made the assumption that pretty much everything else is almost/about the same.

NOT TRUE!

-- L

 

Remember that the OP stated he is 71 and tried retirement. Assuming that's true, I don't think there's any trucking company that would work for him. There were reasons he retired from his last gig, he just forgot what they were.

 

Going by OP's first post he worked at Maverick tarping flatbed's from age 58-61. That's pretty #### impressive.
I know one thing, the older I get, the more I get impatient. Impatient is not a good trait for a truck driver, or even a steering wheel holder these days.

 

I'm 63 and agree completely.
The best time I had with Schneider was when I was an IC.
The worst time I had was when I was a company driver. It was frankly astounding how little some of these people knew about trucking and how long it took to get from here to there.

 

Clarification: based on the above -- I would really hate to look back, & know that I made future CDL career decisions -- solely from my experiences with Schneider, &/or Schneider intermodal.

-- L

 

5 days…..I wonder what the real statistics are on new hires…..