Looking at Schneider & some general questions

Good move on the tanker work, that's where the money is in trucking. Some items you need:

Steel toed boots - to protect the feet and ankles.
Ear protection - some tank pumps are very noisy. I bought ear protection from a gun store like they use on shooting range; look like plastic ear muffs.

 

i know nothing of schneider other than driver talk, and it hasnt been heavily weighted either to the bad or the good.
work hours: you have a maximum WORK time of 70 hours in 8 days. (this includes pretrip, fueling, and load/unload time). 70/8=8.75. so if you always worked 8.75 hours, you would never run out of hours, and never have to take a 34 hour reset break. this equates to 8-8.25 hours per day of driving.
wait time: your maximum drive time is 11 hours, but your maximum work day is 14 hours, period. if you drive ONE HOUR to your destination, and then get help up at the shipper for NINE HOURS, then you have only 4 hours left to drive before you are required to take a 10 hour break. so...in your example, you could not legally drive to the oc. you CAN if you are empty drive logged "off duty" for a certain period, to go to walmart or to get food. this can be used to your advantage occasionally, but not often for anything other than the legitimate walmart or food run. but an hour away? nope, you are stuck my friend. though most companies will allow you to show that 4 hours at the receiver as mostly sleeper berth time, so it wont affect your 70, it does nothing to change that ever running 14 hour clock. the soonest you could move in your example would be....arrive at receiver. wait 4 hours, the last 3.75 hours shown in sleeper berth. receiver allows you to remain, and you move truck a short distance to an unobtrusive location on their lot. now you must wait 4.25 hours. you now have a full 8 hours shown in the sleeper berth, which is the only legal way to "split log" anymore. now you have enough time to drive that final hour legally.

 

Relax, they will explain all the hours of service stuff to you in training. (assuming you go with Schneider). They have one of the better training programs out here and you will understand all about the hours of service long before you are sent out on your own. As pookerhound mentioned 8.75 is the magic number to never run out of hours. But even a 34 hr restart isnt so bad if you time it right. (drop a trailer at 8pm Sat night and be ready to go 6am Monday=34 hrs.). Schneider doesnt allow slpit sleaper berth time either. If you do get into a situation where you might run out of hrs at a customer call in or send a msg and let Schneider know. It is amazing what a phone call from Green Bay to a customer can do sometimes. (especially when they are paying detention pay while you are sitting there). I have been told to leave the customer and return the next day, been told to drop the trailer at customer and return later and sometimes it might even turn into a drop trailer and go onto next load. The key is put the ball in their court and let them make the decisions, sorry didnt't mean to take this off track.

They will give you all your safety equipment, so don't worry aboout getting any beforehand. Don't worry about what to get or bring with you now either. You will have time with a trainer before being alone to figure out what to get. Being out of Keasbey...you would run all over if you are OTR. They also have local and regional stuff up there as well. But the majority of the stuff would be if you made a box from NJ over to Chicago, down to Houston and back over to Jacksonville., that is probably 75% of it.

 

with SNI there is no split sleeper allowed per policy as well as no off duty drive time as a company driver.

 

if you can get on do it they told me to go get 6 months like every other company