Left Schneider my thoughts on sni

sorry to hear that. sni still doesnt lay off drivers when things like that happen right.
the account im on nfi has had for 15 years, they also got the incoming glass and cans but that thought of the contract being lost or the brewery closing is on my mind already and i just started.

 

I was a driver with Schneider for 2 months prior to my two years with Swift...

Also regarding training and having "enough" experience...

I had enough experience to be given a truck and be out my own OTR after two weeks training with a local driver when I first started... but now even though I have two+ years experience OTR, my most recent experience was local driving for a year... So that doesn't count as recent experience for some OTR companies???

Doesn't make any sense right?

 

No. As soon as they received word, they made sure to tell us that they had plenty of work for us and no one was losing their jobs. But I'm moving on anyway, because if I'm going to be back on the road, I want to do it as a lease operator and work toward ownership one day.

 

azcardnlz, where you going for L/O ?

 

What location? I know that they have one here in Statesville,NC. I was going to with that one a little over year ago.

 

Plainfield, iN. Another one in the northeast. Can't remember which. Statesville is in good shape. No worries there.

 

I was not accepted by SFI. Also had a couple other places say no. Was looking at JCT, but decided against it. You mentioned Prime on a different thread, I may wind up there!

 

its the jcp warehouse in manchester ct your thinking of. just realized i forgot details from my initial post. was tired when i put it up sorry.

sni only screwed me over three times while i was their, almost 4.
first time was in feb, had a load rejected in vt after the com check was activated. was never compensated.
we switched to a pilot program where lumpers no longer came out of your pay back in august. was never compensated for the last lumper i paid for.
received an equipment violation ticket in central islip, went to the first hearing was never compensated expenses. was told by the judge that sni was required to do a corporate substitution. sni failed to respond i went to the second hearing, again expenses where not compensated. the judge was not happy with schneider but dismissed the ticket. finally heard from regulatory after trying to contact them for months after i got out court. caught her lying to me. first she tried to tell me she didnt no what a corporate substitution was, then tells me sni doesnt do that. then when i told her it was dismissed she comes back with well they usually are. i knew right then and their that she knew #### well what i was talking about and that she knew if i went down their enough times and at my own expense it would eventually be dismissed and would not cost schneider anything.
this court hassle is the straw that broke the camels back.
last issue i had was trying to get home for my interview with nfi. was sat at p&g for over 24 hours then sent to new york to pick up wood pellets. pellets had to be delivered the next day at the same time as my interview.
when i asked for a relay i got back "relaying loads costs money. And it is an expense that cant be bared by the division, unless the reason for the relay is warranted." basically what i got out of that is we cant relay unless it will cost us more money than the relay it self. i was mad as all hell after receiving this especially after sitting over 24 hours. prior to this i have never been given this statement if i wanted to relay, i was given the ok quite often so i didn't have to sit on loads.
these are the only issue i had with sni and if i didnt want to be a local driver and be home every night i would still be driving a pumpkin.

 

I am taking a position with SNI on their Home Depot acct. out of my home town. What kind of mileage/pay are you getting? What's your range?

I'm going from Topeka, KS to Denver, CO, dedicated. I know they don't take deliveries on the weekend, so I should be home ~30hrs weekends, the way I figure.

Anyone have any experience on a dedicated run like this with SNI? I'm pretty curious to see what the route is like, as well as hometime and such.

 

Different dedicated routes offer different things. My pay was salary, and it is about $700-800 doe. That's for a job where you are home most, if not every night and off weekends. Most have weekly routes, and if your mileage pay works out to be more than salary, they pay the higher. Top mileage pay is 35.5 cpm plus stop pay and unload pay.