Not a good start with Schneider

This is first week solo. Drove on monday. Truck started leaking coolant. PTO leaking and not working. Shop in Houston keeps delaying to get me in the shop. 3 days later still waiting. Was hoping to start making money this week but nada. Am not the only one...three others that started solo this week are in the same situation, trucks are filthy and poorly maintained. I feel like i fared better because i got a somewhat clean interior truck. Theirs were filthy and I guess Schneider expected them to be okay with a filthy truck. Mine smells like ### when sun hits it. Not sure if this is norm

 

They have no respect for you or their equipment. Get use to it. It's not going to get better. Move on is my advice because you will sooner or later. Good luck.

 

Dont really have the luxury to move on at this point. I have to stick it out for a while.

 

Stop going to the COMPANY SHOP. You drive whatever it is, freightliner, International, Volvo whatever it is... GO TO A BIG FAT DEALERSHIP SHOP. Turn truck in, pick a soft overstuffed chair on the second floor. Make sure manager knows a whole stack of stuff to FIX on taht company truck.

You by law are the agent of the company charged with the legal obligation to fix a broken truck that failed your pretrip. The dealer will be more than happy to assist you in going above and beyond in a fixing of truck.

Your schineder company shop has displayed their laziness and lack of motvation for the last time. You WILL take your tractor and trailer to the dealer who WILL be motivated to fix you correctly and quickly. With lots of money from your too lazy company shop.

Until Schnider understands in their Ivory Tower Board Room of Directors why they are bleeding millions of dollars to fix trucks their company shops REFUSE to fix in a timely manner MAYBE they will get things done by elimimating the parasite, lazy, mooching, time wasting mechanics and shops that destroy YOUR payroll, COMPANY REVENUE and KILL the dispatcher by making you sit and rot for days inside the company schniner yard.

BE PROACTIVE go into the big truck make deailership. Bring stack of pretrip stuff wrong with it. Fix it all. Reinspect. Sign off. Then call for that comcheck for very big bill for Schnider to pay.

DO IT AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN until Schnider FINDS out that their own company shops are #### and need firing system wide until they find a way to have shops be as fast, good and timely as the dealerships are being.

 

Good way to get yourself fired for unauthorized repairs.

Absolutely do not drive unsafe equipment.

But don't EVEN take that tractor to a dealership, unless specifically authorized.

 

There are other ways of dealing with this. Are you paid by the hour? If you can't get it fixed then it's on you. Accident, fines, stress or worse.

 

Ask for Breakdown pay for your lost time. Do it over the phone and via the Quall comm. If they deny it demand the reason why in writing! Speak to a supervisor about the break down and the condition of the truck. Take pictures of all the repairs that are needed and send to the V.P. of Maintenance and Driver Relations. It won't win you any friends in Operations but unless someone steps up and calls them out...the abuse will continue. Good luck!

 

How sad...

 

If you stick around long enough they'll give you a new(er) truck. You get the junk to begin with because their turnover is skyhigh and they don't want some newbie that isnt going to stick around to tear up the good trucks.

 

Park it in a bad neighborhood and drop the key out side on the ground.