Here is my experience with Schneider as a zero experience driver

Every companies training program is run like this if you go that route. There is another way you can get your cdl.

You can go the private school route, like I did. You find a local school. Stay at home. Drive to and from everyday. It is costly. I, like most, couldnt afford it, so I got my cdl via the WIA program. Its a program, and all states have it, where you get a grant from the government to pay for school. They pay for training, your cdl if you pass, and even gas money.

But, you have to get it through your local unemployment office. You qualify if you are un-employed or if your income is below a certain threshold. In Ohio it was, at the time 30k. They may make you go to the un-employment office to do paperwork. The school will help you set it up.

The school also brings in recruiters from various companies and you choose who you work for. I will tell you now, all companies will send you to orientation, and the treatment you hate at Schneider is the same you will get with orientation.

It seems like you don't like to listen to advice, but if you want your cdl this is about the best route to go. Good luck in whatever you choose.

Btw, your trainer taught you the turns exactly right. The part about holding tight to the curb, I still use it every day, and as someone else said, the lane to lane is the law in most states.

Once you get your cdl you have to go out with a trainer. Most comapnies its 3 weeks. I went with Shaffer and it was 8 weeks. Your trainer will teach you all of the turns and how to set up for turns such as if turning on to a two lane road you want to be in the outside lane so you can go wide and not have to do the sharp turn.

Anyways, good luck.

 

I never realized how insulting it was to be served coffee in a styrofoam cup. I have to find a new mechanic now. And I will definitely give the flying J a piece of my mind next time they have the audacity to ask me to PAY for one of their styrofoam cups of coffee.

 

Right? I guess when my department meets for our pre-shift I will have to let them know that inspite of the best medical benefits I have ever had, and that includes the ones from the teachers union, that inspite of the extra things they do for us that I find them demeaning cause I have to drink coffee from a styrofoam cup.

 

Plug the commode with styrofoam.

 

Lol. Right.

 

Yep. This is exactly right. The sheer horror of having to get a donut that has touched another.